The Burning Sea

North Sea is a little-known Norwegian disaster film. Norwegian cinema is not the most famous in Europe, not to mention the whole world. But North Sea is a great movie, something similar to Deepwater Horizon, but without Hollywood pathos and star cast. If you liked Deepwater Horizon, I advise you to watch North Sea. Yes, there is no star cast in North Sea, there is almost no action. Here is mostly a drama of several people, their suffering and sacrifices. But the film doesn't seem more passable. It's just about something else. I advise everyone to watch it, I understand that few people will know about the film. I was accidentally offered by a media service after watching Deepwater Horizon.

Wow, I must say that Norway has indeed been on a roll in the recent years in regards of disaster movies. First there was the 2015 movie "Bølgen" (aka "The Wave"), which was followed by the 2018 movie "Skjelvet" (aka "The Quake"), and now in 2021 there was "Nordsjøen" (aka "The Burning Sea").

I must admit that I have been thoroughly entertained by these movies, and "Nordsjøen" proved to be equally enjoyable. So writers Harald Rosenløw-Eeg and Lars Gudmestad definitely managed to put together a good storyline for "Nordsjøen". Sure, there wasn't a whole lot of destruction and mayhem in this movie, which was a shame, but "Nordsjøen" was a very well-written story-driven movie. And the story was spiced up with a natural disaster. So it was actually still quite enjoyable.

For me, then I felt it was a shame that there wasn't more focus on the destructive forces of the disaster, because I was sort of expecting that. But luckily then director John Andreas Andersen managed to put writers Harald Rosenløw-Eeg and Lars Gudmestad's script to life on the screen in a very enjoyable and entertaining manner.

The acting performances were good in "Nordsjøen". And I wasn't familiar with the cast here, but they definitely put on good performances to bring the movie to life. I was sort of expecting to see actor Kristoffer Joner here, as he was in both "Bølgen" and "Skjelvet", but he wasn't here.

Visually then "Nordsjøen" was pretty good, I liked the special effects and it definitely came off as being realistic and added a lot of flavor to the movie.

If you enjoy disaster movies, then "Nordsjøen" is well-worth watching.

My rating of "Nordsjøen" lands on a six out of ten stars.

I think this movie is a great example of good, Norwegian quality. It includes great actors, respectable CGI, and a deep, cinematic experience. In my opinion, this one is better than both the Norwegian The Wave (2015) and The Quake (2018), and can easily beat several of Hollywood's disaster movies. Recommending!

I did really appreciate this film. The film was great, and had good effects. I got to remember this is a Norwegian movie, but they are at the level with the great ones in America, I think. I love that the catastrophic movies of 2021, has a message. Not only this movie of course. The message is real and important!

No pun intended - as you may know by know (if this isn't my first review you read), I am not reading too much before I watch a movie. So a lot of times, I have no idea what I am about to watch exactly. So when the movie began and some real footage was shown, I thought I'd be seeing a documentary. Of course that switches quite quickly and we get into fictional storytelling after that.

And what a great human drama is being told. If you are into the human survival kind of thing - if you like the stakes being as high as possible ... well you have quite the movie here. If you are thinking of the enviroment you may have quite a lot of issues with how things are being resolved of course. But it is a movie and the things we see are digital effects - which is a good thing, because I'd hate for all that mayhem to be real. There is enough real disasters in the world - we don't need more just to film a movie - even if it is good one - with a lot of drama and great acting.