I got a mental hernia trying keep my disbelief suspended. starting with a wacky premise, it turns that over into flawed characters behaving badly and reveling in those self same self serving selfish flaws.

I'm watching this film on NT1 in France, 19/10/2016. The movie seems to be logical at the beginning BUT the moment when I saw Sam and Rob jump off the barrier, something went wrong. That's completely stupid to jump from a safe place to a deadly place. Maybe the story is so poor that they decided to add a stupid action to make it more active.The remain of this movie is a suffering for me to watch different stupid actions. Every action in this movie are so illogical and unnecessarily emotional. A lady who is supposed to be commander-in- chief in this disaster takes all of her time repeatedly calling her daughter. The couple repeatedly jump to a deadly place every time they are safe. That's purely garbage. Don't know why French television NT1 bought this film.

I really wanted to like this movie for a number of reasons. First of all, I really like natural disaster movies; if the scenery or CGI is even adequate, I am satisfied. Secondly, there is always the human element whether it is the "villains" that caused the disaster or refused to admit that there was a problem or the "heroic" people whose stories are told as part of the overall disaster. And finally, it takes place in London - I don't think I have seen another disaster movie that takes place there. Therefore, it would be a refreshing change to the typical destruction of New York, L.A., or Japan.But, no matter how many times I watch it, I always wind up doing something else at the same time. I just can not warm up to this movie. Another review I read finally made me realize why. It is like a low budget, poorly made-for-TV movie. There is so much disjointed editing and so many poorly connected scenes that I eventually just lose interest. The CGI is at times fine, but for the most part unbelievable. That is a shame because great walls of water wiping out structures can be awesome to watch if done competently.And the acting. Robert Carlye chews the scenery every time he is on screen. The other primary actors are equally unbelievable, although Joanne Whalley does seem to be trying. The only performances I actually found credible were the two barrier workers (Tom Hardy and Angus Barnett I believe.) At least I think they were barrier workers. Not being from London I didn't know if they were somewhere in the barrier or in the Underground. There were a few things that weren't explained, taking for granted anyone watching would know exactly where and what was going on.I have watched Haeundae (2009) which is entirely in Korean and kind of goofy at times and felt more interest and connection than I ever did watching Flood, a movie that was entirely in English.

I enjoyed this film because i didn't take it that seriously, good cast, British made, but my problem isn't with the film, the actors, the effects or the script, its with people comparing it to massive budget American crap like the day after tomorrow, we are force fed that crap and expected to accept it as quality film making and when a little film comes out over here then its a copy and therefore crap, what about all the really crap remakes that Hollywood are doing because they are afraid to make something new or original, all films made on blue or greens screens and created in a computer so no real effort is put in, maybe the people who slated Flood should watch it again as they are probably American and 12 years old and know less about film making than Hollywood do, I would rather watch this than transformers which is an insult to anyones intelligence over 17 years old.