Firstly, start by ignoring any comparisons people may draw to "The Day After Tomorrow". This film is nothing like that. This is a film set in the UK, it deals with an actual possible event.
The film is set in London and deals with what would happen if a massive tidal wave flooded central London.
Robert Carlysle is an unlikely hero and isn't really suited to the role. He's too quiet and unassuming. David Suchet plays the Deputy Prime Minister who is a very indecisive person. They obviously didn't research what kind of powers the DPM would have when the PM isn't in the country but his constant being on the phone to the PM just would NOT happen.
He'd have all the powers of the PM. The other people running the COBRA group are really rubbish, they fall to pieces as soon as there's the hint of a crisis. My biggest complaint is an Army guy ordering a jet to bomb the flood barrier. Sorry mate but that would be a senior RAF officers job, not yours.
The best things about this movie are the supporting cast who make the film what it is and the excellent effects and visuals of the actual flood itself. The fact that it's inter-cut with shots of real floods in England makes for even more realism.
I agree with people who asked why they didn't tell people to try and find tall buildings to seek shelter in. Trying to evacuate central London at rush hour in less than 2 hours is just a joke.
The fact that the Met Office weren't issuing warnings to London as soon as Wick was flooded was a bit silly but they were just trying to create a scapegoat character which Nigel Planer played very well. So well in fact his character commits suicide out of sheer shame.
The film is exceptionally silly in places (I'd expect the London Underground system to be the first place to fill with water in such an event).
It's certainly not a disaster movie in the same vein as something like "The Day After Tomorrow" which so many people are trying to compare it to. (Why? It's nothing like that! This is the UK, that was the US. This is a flood, that was an Ice Age).
Generally the film is bearable enough to be entertaining, it might not have an all star cast but the supporting cast do a good enough job to make it watchable. Give it a go if your a Brit.
The film is set in London and deals with what would happen if a massive tidal wave flooded central London.
Robert Carlysle is an unlikely hero and isn't really suited to the role. He's too quiet and unassuming. David Suchet plays the Deputy Prime Minister who is a very indecisive person. They obviously didn't research what kind of powers the DPM would have when the PM isn't in the country but his constant being on the phone to the PM just would NOT happen.
He'd have all the powers of the PM. The other people running the COBRA group are really rubbish, they fall to pieces as soon as there's the hint of a crisis. My biggest complaint is an Army guy ordering a jet to bomb the flood barrier. Sorry mate but that would be a senior RAF officers job, not yours.
The best things about this movie are the supporting cast who make the film what it is and the excellent effects and visuals of the actual flood itself. The fact that it's inter-cut with shots of real floods in England makes for even more realism.
I agree with people who asked why they didn't tell people to try and find tall buildings to seek shelter in. Trying to evacuate central London at rush hour in less than 2 hours is just a joke.
The fact that the Met Office weren't issuing warnings to London as soon as Wick was flooded was a bit silly but they were just trying to create a scapegoat character which Nigel Planer played very well. So well in fact his character commits suicide out of sheer shame.
The film is exceptionally silly in places (I'd expect the London Underground system to be the first place to fill with water in such an event).
It's certainly not a disaster movie in the same vein as something like "The Day After Tomorrow" which so many people are trying to compare it to. (Why? It's nothing like that! This is the UK, that was the US. This is a flood, that was an Ice Age).
Generally the film is bearable enough to be entertaining, it might not have an all star cast but the supporting cast do a good enough job to make it watchable. Give it a go if your a Brit.