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Flood
2007 110 min Canada, South Africa, United Kingdom 18+
★5.3
Drama, Action, Thriller
Director: Tony Mitchell
🎭 Based on
«Flood»
byRichard Doyle
Trailers
Description
Timely yet terrifying, The Flood predicts the unthinkable. When a raging storm coincides with high seas it unleashes a colossal tidal surge, which travels mercilessly down England's East Coast and into the Thames Estuary. Overwhelming the Barrier, torrents of water pour into the city. The lives of millions of Londoners are at stake.
Worldwide:
$8.27M
Starring
Robert Carlyle
Actor
Jessalyn Gilsig
Actor
Tom Courtenay
Actor
Awards
2 nominations
Key opinion
Flood is widely regarded as a lackluster addition to the disaster genre, suffering from dated visual effects and a sluggish narrative. While some appreciate its grounded focus on governmental failure and professional duty, most viewers find the film’s attempts at spectacle cheap and its emotional beats shallow.
| Production | The visual effects are consistently described as artificial, dated, and unconvincing, failing to provide the scale expected of a disaster blockbuster. | |
| Screenplay | The screenplay is burdened by stale tropes, technical jargon, and a lack of narrative depth that fails to distinguish the film from its genre predecessors. | |
| Acting | Robert Carlyle’s performance serves as a highlight, bringing a grounded, if somber, weight to a film otherwise populated by flat or underwhelming character work. | |
| Pacing | The pacing is viewed as uneven; while some find the first two-thirds to be a gripping procedural, others argue the film drags significantly and collapses under a lack of momentum in its final act. | |
| Theme | The film’s portrayal of governmental incompetence and realistic disaster management provides a grim, serious tone that resonates with some as a thoughtful exploration of authority, while others find this focus on bureaucracy tedious and lacking in personal stakes. |