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  • 2022
  • PG-13
  • Magnet Releasing
  • 1 h 44 m
  • 2022
  • PG-13
  • Magnet Releasing
  • 1 h 44 m

Summary In 1969, the Norwegian government announces their discovery of one of the world’s largest oil fields in the neighboring North Sea, launching a prosperous period of offshore drilling. 50 years later, the environmental consequences begin to manifest – a crack has opened on the ocean floor, causing a rig to collapse. A team of researchers, ...

Directed By: John Andreas Andersen

Written By: Harald Rosenløw-Eeg, Lars Gudmestad

  • 2022
  • PG-13
  • Magnet Releasing
  • 1 h 44 m
  • 2022
  • PG-13
  • Magnet Releasing
  • 1 h 44 m

The Burning Sea

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 9 Critic Reviews
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Summary In 1969, the Norwegian government announces their discovery of one of the world’s largest oil fields in the neighboring North Sea, launching a prosperous period of offshore drilling. 50 years later, the environmental consequences begin to manifest – a crack has opened on the ocean floor, causing a rig to collapse. A team of researchers, ...

Directed By: John Andreas Andersen

Written By: Harald Rosenløw-Eeg, Lars Gudmestad

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Metascore
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33% Positive
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65
Feb 25, 2022
By taking its time setting the stakes for all involved, when the action strikes, its impact is witnessed more through the cast rather than a cadre of CGI explosions.
By Rob Rector FULL REVIEW
63
Feb 25, 2022
The Burning Sea may ultimately be too uptight for its own good, but there’s enough here to satisfy disaster aficionados who’ve already been here before and only really want to root for more of the same.
By Simon Abrams FULL REVIEW
58
Feb 25, 2022
For a movie so intuitively captivating, so visually extravagant, it very nearly papers over all its emotional weaknesses.
By Robert Daniels FULL REVIEW
50
Feb 24, 2022
We get little more than a bland romance, smoothly professional special effects and a story that’s finally too predictable to raise the heart rate.
By Jeannette Catsoulis FULL REVIEW
50
Feb 23, 2022
The film drops any interest in the blurring of fact and fiction as it settles into a rote account of a contemporary oil rig catastrophe.
By Clayton Dillard FULL REVIEW
40
Feb 25, 2022
The film as a whole, though, never hits as hard as it should. The characters are too stock — generic enough that their personalities won’t distract from the looming apocalyptic trouble.
By Noel Murray FULL REVIEW
40
Feb 23, 2022
The movie has every right to be fiction, but the heart of its drama lies in its patina of plausibility.
By Owen Gleiberman FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Fantefilm, Zefyr Media Fund, Film i Väst, Piggy Bænk, Chezville, MEDIA Programme of the European Union, Nordisk Film & TV-Fond, Norsk Filminstitutt
Release Date Feb 25, 2022
Duration 1 h 44 m
Rating PG-13
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Tagline From the Creators of "The Wave" and The Quake"
Website https://trustnordisk.com/movie/the-north-sea
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Awards

Amanda Awards, Norway
• 1 Win & 6 Nominations

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