Look, this is a well-made movie about a real tragedy, and it deserves credit for honoring the workers and exposing corporate negligence. The technical filmmaking is impressive, and there's genuine educational value about environmental disasters and what happens when safety regulations get ignored.

But let's be real: this is a brutal, traumatic watch. It's not entertainment in any fun sense—it's more like bearing witness to a disaster. The entire second half is people screaming, burning, drowning in oil, and dying while explosions tear apart the rig. It's respectful and realistic, which somehow makes it worse.

For mature high schoolers studying environmental science, corporate responsibility, or recent American disasters, this has value. For everyone else? It's a heavy, grim experience that you watch once and never need to revisit. Not exactly the feel-good family viewing Screenwise usually champions, but important if your teen is ready for serious, real-world trauma presented cinematically.