Flood is a British disaster movie that speculates what would happen to London if a huge tidal wave made it's way up the river and breached the Thames Barrier due to extreme weather conditions.
Based on the best selling novel by British thriller writer Robert Doyle it must have seemed a good idea to turn it into a TV movie, run for more than three hours long, broadcast it over two nights and tap into the climate change debate to make it seem relevant.
Thankfully I saw the edited down version that was released theatrically and is much shorter. The kinetic editing, shaky camera work and regular time stamps that try to instill an immediacy with a countdown to disaster hopes to make up for the lacklustre script, corny dialogue and below par CGI effects but it doesn't, in fact the techniques are used too often and become quite distracting.
Robert Carlyle, Joanne Whalley and David Suchet do their best to look all serious and inject some drama into proceedings but a pre-stardom Tom Hardy and veteran actor Tom Courtney come off the worst in this contrived, cliche ridden thriller that has it's moments but you know the Americans do this type of thing a whole lot better than us Brits with movies like The Day After Tomorrow (2004).
I haven't seen the full TV version but the movie version is only concerned with the impending disaster and showing off it's CGI effects of famous landmarks under water rather than trying to offer a green message against climate change. The script is too broad and too dumb to address such issues. It's a tired effort that fails to excite or create enough edge of your seat tension to make up for it's plentiful shortcomings.
Based on the best selling novel by British thriller writer Robert Doyle it must have seemed a good idea to turn it into a TV movie, run for more than three hours long, broadcast it over two nights and tap into the climate change debate to make it seem relevant.
Thankfully I saw the edited down version that was released theatrically and is much shorter. The kinetic editing, shaky camera work and regular time stamps that try to instill an immediacy with a countdown to disaster hopes to make up for the lacklustre script, corny dialogue and below par CGI effects but it doesn't, in fact the techniques are used too often and become quite distracting.
Robert Carlyle, Joanne Whalley and David Suchet do their best to look all serious and inject some drama into proceedings but a pre-stardom Tom Hardy and veteran actor Tom Courtney come off the worst in this contrived, cliche ridden thriller that has it's moments but you know the Americans do this type of thing a whole lot better than us Brits with movies like The Day After Tomorrow (2004).
I haven't seen the full TV version but the movie version is only concerned with the impending disaster and showing off it's CGI effects of famous landmarks under water rather than trying to offer a green message against climate change. The script is too broad and too dumb to address such issues. It's a tired effort that fails to excite or create enough edge of your seat tension to make up for it's plentiful shortcomings.