In “The Burning Sea,” which is your basic, everyday Norwegian oil-rig disaster thriller, Stian (Henrik Bjelland), a rig worker stationed on a drilling platform that’s about to col…
,” which is your basic, everyday Norwegian oil-rig disaster thriller, Stian , a rig worker stationed on a drilling platform that’s about to collapse, must descend into the bowels of the rig to shut down a well that can’t be reached remotely.
The reason that’s more intriguing in theory than in practice is that the film turns out to be a very standard series of rescue-mission operations. When 30 drilling platforms in the North Sea, all owned by the SAGA corporation, collapse and sink into the ocean, it’s the result of an ancient rift in the earth having split open anew, provoked by all the drilling that’s turning the sea bottom into a Swiss cheese.
The corporate managers in “The Burning Sea” seem, at first, like the kind who would want to cover things up. When Sofia , a robotics engineer who operates a snakelike ocean robot camera, shows the foreboding underwater footage she has captured to William Lie , a veteran SAGA executive, he asks for the tape as if he wants to bury it.
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