Natural disaster film The North Sea predictably rushes from one deadline to another and still remains entertaining

Norwegian disaster movies, it’s starting to become a familiar recipe. Out after the tsunami The Wave (2015) and the earthquake from The Quake (2018) it is now the North Sea bed that causes natural disasters of the highest order.

Or yes, actually the greedy man bears all the blame. The Norwegian coastal area has become a cheese of holes due to the endless oil drilling, says someone in The North Sea, and the Earth responds by engulfing entire oil platforms. The gigantic oil slick that is released must be set on fire to prevent an international environmental catastrophe. Underwater robot builder Sofia (Kristine Kujath Thorp) tries to rescue her beloved Stian (Henrik Bjelland) from that hell, in a film that predictably rushes from one nerve-racking deadline to the next, yet remains entertainingly thrilling. Sofia is a sympathetic, tireless heroine and John Andreas Andersen, who is also just that little bit stronger The Quake knows how to embed the clever special effects in a semi-documentary style. KT