GamerTab That was an excellent one.

SpuffyWeb Sadly Over-hyped

FirstWitch A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

Bluebell Alcock Ok... Let's be honest. It cannot be the best movie but is quite enjoyable. The movie has the potential to develop a great plot for future movies

truonghoangthien I'm watching this film on NT1 in France, 19/10/2016. The movie seems to be logical at the beginning BUT the moment when I saw Sam and Rob jump off the barrier, something went wrong. That's completely stupid to jump from a safe place to a deadly place. Maybe the story is so poor that they decided to add a stupid action to make it more active.The remain of this movie is a suffering for me to watch different stupid actions. Every action in this movie are so illogical and unnecessarily emotional. A lady who is supposed to be commander-in- chief in this disaster takes all of her time repeatedly calling her daughter. The couple repeatedly jump to a deadly place every time they are safe. That's purely garbage. Don't know why French television NT1 bought this film.

pater-tenebrarum Admittedly I switched the TV on a bit late, so I missed the beginning of the movie. In fact, as I will relay a little further below, I also missed the movie's second half (approximately). You therefore have to take my critique with a grain of salt, as I may have missed a number of absolutely brilliant moments. The scene that greeted my upon switching on consisted of a bunch of people congregating around a suitably large screen in some sort of central command type headquarters, which are often found in movies of this type. They stare at an oncoming tsunami wave, which is frighteningly high. One woman says 'oh my God!', which certainly struck me as an appropriate remark. Then they let the camera pan around a bit, to see what else of interest may be happening nearby. And lo!, they discover a man in the water, paddling frantically. Apparently he is known to them, as the aforementioned woman shouts: 'We need this man immediately!'. But why would they need him? Does he have a giant sponge that could be used to remove the excess water? No! In fact, since he is evidently dripping wet, it's a good bet he would ruin the carpet if invited in. The wetness, which is ubiquitous in this movie, would penetrate into one of the few sets that are still dry. We can only surmise that the people at the HQ weren't thinking that far due to being in shock. Upon closer inspection, it turns out that the wet man is Robert Carlyle, so maybe they wanted an autograph? In the meantime, the tsunami wave proceeds to flood a faintly familiar looking town. Curiously though, the whole process seems not particularly threatening, compared to the real life tidal waves we have seen in recent years. For instance, this wave for some reason totally refuses to carry any debris along. Also, the water bedecking the town is basically ankle deep, so it seems more a nuisance than a genuine threat. As you might imagine though, nearly everybody in this movie gets thoroughly wet. Not even in 'Waterworld' are there that many wet people. A number of people, including the aforementioned Robert Carlyle then walk about below ground, sitting around in subway stations, which for (to me) unknown reasons they cannot leave by the normal exits. Naturally walking around there is a bad idea, since the water can be expected to flood the area. Why they went there in the first place was slightly baffling to me. However, the water turns out to be extremely considerate. Instead of flooding everything at once, it decides to wait a bit whenever the group decides to rest a little while for a chat. At one point they actually look almost dry. They then climb up a shaft containing a fire escape type ladder, which struck me as a reasonably good idea in view of the lack of normal exits. At that point I fell asleep, in spite of the fact that I was actually not tired prior to watching the movie. So I cannot tell you much more unfortunately, except that it seems likely that the movie is a healthy, natural means of battling insomnia and thus can be recommended as an alternative to taking sleeping pills. At one point I was woken up again by sad choral music, and briefly glimpsed dead people floating in the ankle-deep water. To call them bad swimmers is probably an understatement. For those who managed to stay awake, I sincerely hope that the suspense coefficient went up a little in the second half of the movie. Of course given what can only be called a cursory acquaintance with the movie, I can also not be sure whether it addressed any deep philosophical questions. That is a distinct possibility, given the serious expressions several of the actors occasionally wore. Obviously things of grave import were held to be transpiring. Keep in mind that my slightly below average 2 out of 10 rating concerns only the part I actually saw.

Bob-Moe This movie couldn't have been televised at a more appropriate time - it really coincided with Hurricane Ike and all the destruction and flooding in Texas, especially around the Galveston and Houston areas. The opening was very graphic yet totally believable. You really begin to realize just how helpless we all are against the forces of nature. I only hope that somewhere, someplace there is someone or something that has been organized to deal with a catastrophe like the one depicted in The Flood. I believe that no matter what does happen in the world - there will be help for us - but so far in my life I'm glad that I've never had to experience any thing like The Flood. Both my husband and I enjoyed the movie and hope to see more film directed by Tony Mitchell.

Benoît A. Racine (benoit-3) This film is striking for its opening sequence of a flash flood in Scotland, especially after seeing footage of what happened in Galveston, Texas, with Hurrican Ike just now. It unfortunately goes downhill from there. It might as well have been set in the XIXth century for all the realism of the weather-predicting techniques. For the last 10 years at least, the paths of hurricanes have been highly predictable a week ahead of time thanks to probability analysis. Even your local weather channel is a better predicting tool than anything imagined in this film. That part is laughable. Unfortunately, so is the drama element which is redolent of the worst soap-opera (read: hormonal) hysterics on record on both sides of the Atlantic. Failed marriages, missing children, the usual vaginal yearnings, you get the idea... How bad is it? It makes "The Day After Tomorrow" look like an undiscovered play by Henrik Ibsen. I find particularly offensive that this film depicts the lives of millions of Londoners depending on the whims of a single powerful woman with gonads the size of weather balloons surrounded by menzipoo wimps. On the plus side, the destruction of London by tidal wave (and CGI) is sort of cool at times, if you like that sort of thing. Action scenes are powerful if a little confused. The British actors are competent but lack charisma. The whole production, while infinitely better than any made-for-TV American entertainment of the same ilk, tries to embrace too much, Eastenders, Coronation Street and "Titanic" all rolled into one, and fails. The film's cardinal sin is that the talkiest scenes sound and look like cost-cutting time-fillers. The trendy blue-green colour scheme and the vaguely Celtic wailings of the soundtrack are the last word in oblivion-bound film-making.