“The Burning Sea” (** out of four) was a pretty banal suspense melodrama set on the Norwegian coast about an oil rig that suspiciously shuts down and the various crew members and politicians (Kristine Kujath Thorp, Henrik Bjelland, Rolf Kristian Larsen) that realize this is the start of a major ecological disaster and race against time to evacuate. “Deepwater Horizon” told virtually the same story with much more intensity and excitement, so much so that one of the characters even compares this story to that film. Film works best in its final third during the evacuation scenes but is still lost in a “sea” of cliches.