The characters in “The Burning Sea” are the standard stock and trade of disaster movies.

| Original Score: C+ | Jan 1, 2025

Both the prologue and epilogue give the movie a mockumentary patina as if to raise environmental awareness, but strictly speaking, what's in between is standard lackluster and predictable entertainment. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jun 8, 2023

Although the plot owes a lot to the great Hollywood catastrophe genre spectacle, there is no cool ensemble in The Burning Sea, nor do the heroes have the muscles of Dwayne Johnson, the successful ex-wrestler known as The Rock. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 8, 2023

The action scenes make this an entertaining and easy watch and while it doesn't rise above other productions in the genre, The Burning Sea is halfway between being original and predictable. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 6/10 | Jun 6, 2023

If you can watch The Burning Sea, I highly recommend it. The pacing is steady. The story is eye-opening. The acting is incredible and it may become your favorite disaster film. This is definitely a movie to beat in 2022.

| Sep 13, 2022

Generates plenty of claustrophobic tension in the survival sequences, but mind-blowing spectacle takes something of a back seat to delivering a cautionary environmental message about Norway's excessive oil excavation.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 4, 2022

While it is not particularly original, it is an honest and broadly entertaining slice of populist entertainment. ‘Enjoyable enough’ may feel like an underwhelming recommendation, but it is a true one.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Jun 24, 2022

By zeroing in on Sofia and Stian and their immediate friend circle, the disaster element remains taut.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jun 15, 2022

This starts out as an engaging antidote to your typical Hollywood disaster movie before slowly subsiding, so much so that not even a thrilling final twenty minutes can save it from sinking.

| Jun 2, 2022

A regular beat of tension and release plays out as people get saved only to face new dangers, following the template of disaster films since the beginning of cinema, but it’s done well here.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 24, 2022

It's really well done... All those special effects are used in the correct way.

| Mar 12, 2022

I really liked it more than I expected it to... It works beautifuly.

| Mar 12, 2022

The Burning Sea is a formulaic disaster flick with no imagination or engaging personalities. Viewers can easily predict what happens and then quickly forget the movie. The movie's environmental message is cheapened by too many stupid scenarios.

| Mar 11, 2022

Now there’s a tone of bleak indictment rather than vicarious excitement, and the characters are less quirky than blandly earnest.

| Mar 4, 2022

Not terribly disastrous... until it is. Then movie-movie melodrama gives way to eco-cataclysm and new realms of planetary existential nightmare. I cannot recall a movies ending haunting me this much.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Mar 3, 2022

[It takes] the time to develop each character and the special effects don’t bludgeon you over the head.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 1, 2022

I started biting my nails quite early. The pace quickens before too much time passes, and the tension grows deep.

| Mar 1, 2022

By keeping things small in scope as far as the human angle is concerned, the filmmakers do a splendid job of making this crisis personal.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 28, 2022

"The Burning Sea" is the best disaster movie I have seen in some time. Well acted, well plotted and well executed.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Feb 27, 2022

The Burning Sea is also not immune to the tropes and cliches of the disaster movie and rarely contributes anything new or groundbreaking. But it provides enough nuance to its characters that we care for their survival.

| Original Score: 6.5/10 | Feb 25, 2022