Norwegian disaster movies don't get a lot of attention, but the Wave and the Quake were excellent movies, partly because the focus was on the scientist doing the research, and in the Wave, how the scenario was presented as possible, and how it was made real. We start out with a robotics team of Sofia and Arthur, using submarine robots and who are called by a company to use the robot to see if there are survivors of an oil drilling platform that suddenly collapsed, possibly trapped in air pockets. What they find is much more dire. When faced with the danger, the company shuts down the drilling platforms. Near the drilling, in the past, there was a massive landslide. What they are faced with is that after thousands of wells were drilled, the ocean bottom is like Swiss cheese, and landslides can spread to the drilling platforms. But Nature has other ideas, and that is a big part of the story. And they go Hollywood, in that Sofia and Stian, who works on a platform, have a romantic interest, and that makes up a big portion of the rest of the movie. The special effects are excellent, and one can believe one is on a drilling platform.
Review of The Burning Sea
