Better Late Then Never

In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.

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.

A huge flood hits London. It's a disaster movie-series thing (two episodes in the format that I saw).I can only say, it's an aptly named disaster movie. The movie is a complete disaster. Mostly ... people splashing or failing to splash in lots of water mostly in enclosed spaces where the sets must have cost all of several hundred dollars to build. Not including the water, of course.Lots of dialogue like "Oh my god" and "we're not going to make it." Lots of people looking at each other with long faces. More water. More splashing.Now appearing on a movie channel near you. If you get a chance to see it, do something else, you will be glad you did.

Unconvincing acting, cheap CGI, mainly focused on cheesy drama rather than action. About it's only redeeming quality was it had Robert Carlyle in it and for once it wasn't a disaster movie set in the United States of America.A great flood whooshed into the city of London, but buildings didn't crumble and there was absolutely no debris to speak of ugh...Bought this on DVD for a couple of quid on Amazon, but I'm sure I got ripped off because more than likely they sell it in my local Poundland along with all the other crap movies no-one buys. It makes 2012 look like an awesome movie.I hated hated just about every movie made since 2005, as they are never the kind of movie you'll watch time and time again. They're only made to look good on a trailer so they can rip you off at the cinema. This is no exception. When was the last time you saw a disaster movie as good as the 90s ones...Deep Impact...Volcano...The original Independence Day...I'll bet there hasn't been one.

I accidentally fell on this film on TV while David Suchet was speaking to an audience, so I thought this could be interesting.But I was wrong, because in the face of an extreme emergency, a natural disaster which creates a live or die situation for them, it seems to me that most characters are simply incapable of making even the most basic logical thought or plan. They, even the "professionals", act driven by their emotions and therefore the whole movie makes no sense.One example: what do you do when you, a government employee, are on a dam, and you have foreseen that a great wave is going to hit the dam and the great city behind it in 3 hours or maybe less? You warn your superiors and make sure they understand it is serious, alright, and this is what our hero does. But then she refuses to leave, because "the boys are not leaving, and I am not leaving without them". I am not even sure who the boys were and why they wanted to stay on the dam (to enjoy the show perhaps?), but when after a while the dam is in fact hit, our hero runs and swims desperately for her life. Why? I mean she clearly showed she is not interested in saving herself when she had enough time to do it, why has she changed her mind and what has she accomplished by staying in her position in the meantime? As I said, just one example.