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Wet wet wet! (And scarcely credible).......2008-03-02
The idea that a storm surge might coincide with the high spring tide to overwhelm London's flood defences is a great scenario for an action-packed, entirely possible adventure movie. Unfortunately, it is poorly executed here, so instead we get a bunch of supposedly intelligent, professional experts running and shouting and splashing about pointlessly.
The cast is an excellent one, including Robert Carlyle, David Suchet and Nigel Planer, but they flounder about with a preposterous script (and in Carlyle's case, he is saddled with a dodgy near-cockernee accent which seems faintly ridiculous).
If London were to flood then the Met Office, Deputy PM, Army Chieft of Staff and Met Police Commissioner would not spend their time yelling at each other and have arguments over who has jurisdiction.
If London were to flood, then there's a well established evacuation and emergency procedure. It's been in place for three decades, for goodness sake.
If London were to flood, the tidal barrier experts would NOT take refuge in a tube train station!
If London were to flood, the it wouldn't take several hours for the surge to get from the barrier at Greenwich to Tower Bridge to Charing Cross. If Tower Bridge is smashed by a giant wave then Charing Cross would be flooded within minutes.
And so on.
There might have been a good film lurking underneath all the fake dramatics and ridiculous hysteria. But Flood fails to deliver, and the result is a low-rent disaster movie which massively underperforms the cheapest form of Hollywood flic and insults in the intelligence of the viewer. Worth watching only if it's a VERY boring weekend.
More damp squib than torrents of drama.......2008-02-29
While it is thrilling to see the UK film industry take on Hollywood in producing big budget (well, by UK standards) disaster movies, and to make them relevant to these eco-sensitive times, this attempt does not quite hit the mark.
It's very nearly a watchable film - the cast are impressive - Robert Carlyle (Trainspotting), Joanne Whalley, even Tom Courtenay (from Dr Zhivago - the original!!). Then the concept is a good one - global warming issues and high drama rolled up into one event when a large storm coincides with a high tide to create a surge which engulfs London... even the effects are passable enough to allow some suspension of belief. However, what sinks this ship is the awful, awful script... characters are linked by tortuous family links and lines of exposition are shoehorned in whenever possible to avoid the possibility that any acting might evoke some feeling for the characters. It's not that the acting is bad - they just have nothing to act with.
And worst of all, if this is an eco-drama, none of the reasons for the origins of this disaster are explained - we are given plenty of cartoons explaining how London is flooded, but nothing more of note.
It has some decent set pieces, and enough of a concept to get you to switch on, but at the end of the day I have to agree with a previous reviewer who described this as a wasted opportunity.
Floody Awful.......2008-02-28
This has to be the worst scripted movie ever or one of the worst. What on earth was Robert Carlyle thinking of when he signed up for this?? Anyway if you're thinking of watching this because of the decent cast. Think again! This is really predictable and why is Robert Carlyle speaking with a fake cockney accent?
Maybe it's because I'm a Londoner..........2008-02-12
London itself was the star of the film. Still the greatest city on Earth! It was great to see all the local scenes and the special effects were great. Tom Courtney and Joanne Whalley were well cast. Enjoyable disaster film.
Who wrote this rubbish?.......2008-02-02
All star cast wasted. Geographically inacurate - anyone who knows London knows that Greenwich is on the river and Lewisham is further inland and higher up, yet they said that Greenwich Park was a safe area. The last shot of the film shows Greenwich submerged. Who researched this?
The cliched 'history' with the hero's (Carlyle's) estranged father and ex wife, who both just happen to be flood experts too, was unconvincing. It was impossible to care about any of the characters, and the special effects in place to compensate for a good script were unimpressive. Don't bother.
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