The Flood

Released Feb 28, 2020

1 hr. 37 min.

Drama

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An immigration officer must interrogate an asylum seeker to see if he's lying.

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Imperfect yet ultimately honorable, The Flood takes an empathetic look at the plight of asylum seekers in the 21st century.

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Steve D

It's a little too soon to be remaking Crawl with a lower budget and worse actors.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

08/05/23

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Ross j

So terrible I went to the effort of creating an account to warn others.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

10/02/22

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Costumes and makeup for the indigenous culture totally wrong and westernised. Perhaps the movie is made for an international audience. The atrocities committed were aptly shown but the indigenous culture spoke more like university students which made the movie unbelievable and disappointing.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

01/25/23

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The Flood (2020) is a fictional tale meant to "represent" the plight of the 70 million refugees. The story of one is told in the framing device of an asylum interview. The movie makes Three major missteps. First, it fails to give the audience any real sense of what is going on in the process therefore denying the audience of what the stakes are. Second, it spends entirely too much time on the bureaucrat doing the interview personal life , none of which has anything much to do with the primary plot (The time wasted on this b-plot could have been used to fix the first problem). Third, for a fictional story there is not much there in the movie to keep the viewers interest, the central "mystery" will be guessed by most viewers in the first few minutes. It also assumes a level of knowledge of "slang" for the European refuge issue (that could have at least had a screenote). The performances (esp by Ivanno Jeremiah) keep it watchable. It is a 2 out of 5 stars movie unless the plight of fictional refugees is something you are really into (then it is 2 1/2 stars). On Hulu.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

01/24/23

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Anthony Woodley

Director

Lena Headey

Actor

Iain Glen

Philip

Arsher Ali

Nasrat

Ivanno Jeremiah

Haile

Mandip Gill

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Brad Newsome

Sydney Morning Herald

Liang makes an appealing and relatable protagonist, and her character wastes little time kicking seven shades out of the baddies in smoothly choreographed fights.

Rated: 3/5

Jun 1, 2021

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David Stratton

The Australian

Flood is in many ways spectacular, but it's also very bitter in its depiction of the injustice and violence meted out to Indigenous Australians in the not-too-distant past...

Dec 16, 2020

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Sheila O'Malley

RogerEbert.com

The back-and-forth structure is sometimes monotonous, and Wendy's problems take too much focus, but there are specifics that linger.

Rated: 3/4

May 1, 2020

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John Serba

Decider

A good-but-not-great indie with a benevolent heart.

Jul 31, 2020

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Sarah Ward

AWFJ.org

Headey and Jeremiah's performances do ample heavy lifting - not enough to completely patch over kind-hearted but by-the-numbers material, but enough to ensure that their characters and their ordeals linger.

May 29, 2020

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Christopher Lloyd

The Film Yap

"The Flood" is a gut-wrenching tale with real-world urgency: the deluge of refugees fleeing oppressed areas of the world for the safe(r) havens of the West.

Rated: 4/5

May 29, 2020

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Synopsis

An immigration officer must interrogate an asylum seeker to see if he's lying.

Director: Anthony Woodley
Executive Producer: Lena Headey, Matthew Helderman, Merlin Merton, Julie-Ann Uggla
Screenwriter: Helen Kingston
Production Co: Megatopia Films
Genre: Drama
Original Language: English (United Kingdom)
Release Date (Theaters): Feb 28, 2020, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): May 1, 2020

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