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On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 58% based on 24 reviews, with an average rating of 6.05/10. [4]Susan Wloszczyna of RogerEbert.com described Strange Weather as "a rather dour road-trip movie" and, while admiring "the delicious details that Holly Hunter injects into her performance", concluded that "not even Hunter, who eventually wears out her ...
Unfortunately, the oil gush abruptly stops; Lena only drilled a small, worthless pocket of oil, and her well is a bust. Hellman and the other oil men immediately pack up and leave. Lena and Mason muse about looking for oil in Mexico, but Mason declares he wants to leave the oil business behind. As he walks away, Lena calls for him.
With oil now spewing into the ocean, an oil-covered pelican flies into the bridge of a nearby vessel, the Damon Bankston, which was there to collect the drilling mud from the well, and dies; the vessel heads towards the rig just as the workers begin a frantic evacuation, sending out a rescue team after seeing the rig burst into flames. Harrell ...
The movie depicts a group of oil well firefighters, and is based loosely on the life of Red Adair. Adair, "Boots" Hansen, and "Coots" Matthews served as technical advisers on the film. [2] Hellfighters was for the most part negatively received, with criticism aimed at the overlong plot and dull characterization.
The movie, produced by World Television, will act as a historical "archive," BP spokesman Robert Wine told The New York Times. "They are making a BP Commissions Feature-Length Movie About Gulf Oil ...
Twister was released in theaters on May 10, 1996 by Warner Bros. Pictures in the United States and Canada and internationally by Universal Pictures through United International Pictures, and grossed $495.7 million worldwide, becoming the second-highest-grossing film of 1996; it sold an estimated 54.7 million tickets in the United States.
[35] Peter Debruge of Variety gave the film a negative review and stated, "The only thing more reliable than bad weather is bad movies, and in that respect, Geostorm is right on forecast." [ 36 ] A. O. Scott of The New York Times gave the film a negative review and stated, " Geostorm uses digital technology to lay waste to a bunch of cities and ...
Maximum Overdrive is a 1986 American horror film written and directed by Stephen King, in his only directorial effort. [5] The film stars Emilio Estevez, Pat Hingle, Laura Harrington, and Yeardley Smith.