Handful of good lines, some delivered well. A few interesting action scenes become repetitive, and pointless due to simply existing instead of (mostly) being adequately explained or truly integral to the plot.
But overall a very oddly-structured movie, not well done, and so overwhelmingly misogynistic (as well as racist, classist, and generally dismissive of everyone else) that it's hard to bother watching all the way through.
All I can think now is why does this film exist? It's clearly inspired by Red Adair, but why make not just a blatantly fictional account, but one so needlessly involved in the girlfriends and wives, then is almost entirely dismissive of their concerns or abilities? They'd have been better off making a full adventurer/nerd movie and going into the details of their planning, show that they aren't just pool playing, hard drinking, serial womanizing, rednecks.
You can't do this stuff without design, fabrication, and a fair knowledge of chemistry and math, but the only time they show Wayne in a chair in an office he's openly contemptuous of all forms of work which do not involve a jumpsuit and the risk of serious bodily injury.
But overall a very oddly-structured movie, not well done, and so overwhelmingly misogynistic (as well as racist, classist, and generally dismissive of everyone else) that it's hard to bother watching all the way through.
All I can think now is why does this film exist? It's clearly inspired by Red Adair, but why make not just a blatantly fictional account, but one so needlessly involved in the girlfriends and wives, then is almost entirely dismissive of their concerns or abilities? They'd have been better off making a full adventurer/nerd movie and going into the details of their planning, show that they aren't just pool playing, hard drinking, serial womanizing, rednecks.
You can't do this stuff without design, fabrication, and a fair knowledge of chemistry and math, but the only time they show Wayne in a chair in an office he's openly contemptuous of all forms of work which do not involve a jumpsuit and the risk of serious bodily injury.