Flood (2007)

It should have been good. The idea was good. The effects were good. The location good. But somehow, Flood just doesn’t work. The plot seems to be a mess, some of the acting distinctly dodgy, & the pace of the film all wrong. Clearly I’m no film expert, but I do know my disaster films. This was an opportunity to do a good, perhaps slightly cheesy, disaster film with an original backdrop. Yet it just doesn’t work. The film feels like a jigsaw put together in the wrong order so no emotional attachment or connection is ever felt by the viewer, while all the significant moments are glossed over way to quickly. It prefers instead to take the best bits of other films (Day After Tomorrow, and Armageddon) and use those to achieve some sort of success, but fails. Had it been brave enough to stand up as a film in its own right it could have been a different story.

The sad thing is there are some good bits. The original concept was good. The special effects good & specifically an acting performance by supporting actor, underground worker Zak (Tom Hardy), is excellent. But the film as a whole is badly executed, & sadly a disappointment.