there something intriguing about disaster movies. the simple and primal premise can lead to several great stories. granted and most disaster movies tend to explore familiar territory instead but i can usually live with that. unfortunately and flood probably marks the low point in the history of this sub genre. robert carlyle is undoubtedly the star of the movie and even though screen time is split between different locations and characters. he gives a barely decent performance. as well and joanne whalley is very uneven. veteran actor tom courtenay (he played in doctor zhivago for heaven sake) is particularly bad. i mean and his timing is completely off most of the time and his characterization is extremely poor. what an embarrassing performance for that man. the rest of the cast ranges from decent to really bad with one exception represent jessalyn gilsig and whom i thought might be there as a plot device or eye candy gives by far the most convincing performance. doesn not mean much considering how bad everybody else is but still nice to see that she cared. the script is really bad and confusing and cliché. some of the worse lines i have heard in quite some time are delivered by the actors one after the other. you have seen this story a thousand times. it employs every dramatic hook and tear jerkers you have seen in outbreak and armageddon and the poseidon movies (original and remake) and many others. the direction is awful. no sense of timing and nothing inspired. the shots are bland and dialog and action both fail to flow. editing is bad but how do you edit such a mess. without a doubt and this movie tried to rely way too much on (rather poor) cgi. the human factor and the drama and struggles of the characters are glossed over. scenes where the characters must actually face the flood are rare and poorly done. the made for tv feel gives nausea. some guy is supposed to go down a rope from an helicopter. no problem and let show him inside a helicopter and make a really poor cut or editing job and have the next frame with him safely on the ground and in the most obvious way possible. the movie score is rather poor. all over the place and no timing. the ending is probably the worse i have seen in quite some time. very much like they ran out of ideas. scrap that and you can not run out of something if you never had it in the first place. must have ran out of budget. this is a really amateur job. i give it a 2 for using london as a location and which is a nice change and for gilsig being actually decent in a key support role and for the few cgi shots that were decent (those of the water closing in on london and the gates). do yourself a favor and check out day after tomorrow or just about any disaster movie before this one. this includes older classics like the towering inferno. 
there something intriguing about disaster movies. the simple and primal premise can lead to several great stories. granted and most disaster movies tend to explore familiar territory instead but i can usually live with that. unfortunately and flood probably marks the low point in the history of this sub genre. robert carlyle is undoubtedly the star of the movie and even though screen time is split between different locations and characters. he gives a barely decent performance. as well and joanne whalley is very uneven. veteran actor tom courtenay (he played in doctor zhivago for heaven sake) is particularly bad. i mean and his timing is completely off most of the time and his characterization is extremely poor. what an embarrassing performance for that man. the rest of the cast ranges from decent to really bad with one exception represent jessalyn gilsig and whom i thought might be there as a plot device or eye candy gives by far the most convincing performance. doesn not mean much considering how bad everybody else is but still nice to see that she cared. the script is really bad and confusing and cliché. some of the worse lines i have heard in quite some time are delivered by the actors one after the other. you have seen this story a thousand times. it employs every dramatic hook and tear jerkers you have seen in outbreak and armageddon and the poseidon movies (original and remake) and many others. the direction is awful. no sense of timing and nothing inspired. the shots are bland and dialog and action both fail to flow. editing is bad but how do you edit such a mess. without a doubt and this movie tried to rely way too much on (rather poor) cgi. the human factor and the drama and struggles of the characters are glossed over. scenes where the characters must actually face the flood are rare and poorly done. the made for tv feel gives nausea. some guy is supposed to go down a rope from an helicopter. no problem and let show him inside a helicopter and make a really poor cut or editing job and have the next frame with him safely on the ground and in the most obvious way possible. the movie score is rather poor. all over the place and no timing. the ending is probably the worse i have seen in quite some time. very much like they ran out of ideas. scrap that and you can not run out of something if you never had it in the first place. must have ran out of budget. this is a really amateur job. i give it a 2 for using london as a location and which is a nice change and for gilsig being actually decent in a key support role and for the few cgi shots that were decent (those of the water closing in on london and the gates). do yourself a favor and check out day after tomorrow or just about any disaster movie before this one. this includes older classics like the towering inferno. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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