The Great Flood

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"The Great Flood ends up being a bittersweet experience, promising an immersion into the human soul in the face of the abyss, but floating only on the surface of several ideas without truly diving into any of them.

It benefits immensely from the talent of Kim Da-mi, but it's pulled down by a script that can't decide if it wants to be an action blockbuster or a philosophical essay.

An ambitious project that forgot to solidify its emotional foundations before opening the floodgates of scientific complexity."

Rating: C

"The Great Flood" could have been the most remarkable disaster movie I've ever seen and indeed, on a certain level, it still is.

This film successfully marries up the comfortable, if messy, normality of everyday suburban life, with a, by degree, increasingly terrifying disaster. It starts slowly, with heavy rain but then we see water building to oceanic levels, outside tall South Korean apartment blocks, topped off by horrifying giant waves, that quite literally, shatter the illusion of a safe and predictable future.

Viewed from this perspective this film is simply stunning. Topped off by superb, sensibly understated but nonetheless emotionally girpping performances, from the talented cast.

As another reviewer aptly points out, the...