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Review: Flood

After seeing Flood on sale in HMV, I figured my brother would like to see it being the geography type. Flood is the story of a storm hitting Britain and a tidal wave being sent into London. It follows a collection of Themes Barrier, MET Office and Government employees attempting to survive the storm and prevent the annihilation of the capitol.

The film is centered around an ex-couple played by Robert Carlyle(28 Weeks Later) and Jessalyn Gilsig(Claire's real mum in Heroes). I never though much of Carlyle, and this film didn't help that view, with his acting being fairly dull and repetitive. There are a host of other main characters and at the start of the film it was very confusing as to who they all were.

The plot of the film is predictable with no surprises but I guess that is to be expected as all natural disaster movies seem to follow the same pattern. I was hoping for a twist to come along and make it a little more interesting, suffices to say, it never came. Furthermore, it was flawed in many places, and the abrupt ending left a ton of loose ends, including some huge ones such as if the main characters plan to save London worked.

As you would expect, special effects play a huge part in Flood, and in most places they are as believable as can be expected, but there were a few occasions were the effects were blatantly obvious and were poorly done. I think the main attraction for me to this film was the effects, and they played their part in making attempting to make the film believable.

While I enjoyed parts of the film, I would not recommending buying this film unless you can find it in a bargain bin at your local supermarket. For me the special effects make it worth watching if its on TV some time in the future.

When all is said and done, it had the potential to be great, but ended up being a disappointing, mediocre film. If you absolutely love The Day After Tomorrow it could be worth watching if its on, but I wouldn't waste money on buying the DVD(especially as the only extras are interviews).