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The Great Flood

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When a raging flood traps a researcher and her young son, a call to a crucial mission puts their escape -- and the future of humanity -- on the line.
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Craig Mathieson The Age (Australia) Dec 30
3/5
Kim Byung-woo’s film doesn’t relent, but its unexpected plot twists are not fully satisfying. Go to Full Review
Dennis Harvey Variety Dec 22
It’s an ambitious shotgun marriage of too many ideas that end up seeming underdeveloped and rushed within a conventional feature runtime. Go to Full Review
Phil Hoad Guardian Dec 15
3/5
The suggestion is that emotional responses to this relooping drama can be somehow calibrated. It feels like an apologia, complete with cut-and-paste disaster imagery, for algorithmic entertainment. Go to Full Review
Joshua Polanski In Review Online 1d
A half-baked science fiction thriller Go to Full Review
JK Sooja Common Sense Media 2d
3/5
Where this disaster movie goes from its premise will likely lose a few people, but those who stick around will be rewarded with a satisfying adventure. Go to Full Review
Tom Meek Cambridge Day 2d
3/4
There’s a lot of threads that director Kim Byung-woo throws into the vortex. Some of it’s confounding and confusing, but it’s never dull. Go to Full Review
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Jimmy H @Jimkhuynh 10h I honestly wouldn’t recommend this movie to anyone. It was extremely boring and failed to keep my attention from start to finish. The pacing was slow, the story didn’t go anywhere, and it felt like a waste of time. I kept waiting for it to get better, but it never did. Very disappointing overall. See more Andrew L @light4668 16h The first half was really good. Then it got way too complicated and each trip to the roof was like Groundhog Day, each slightly different and increasingly annoying. Decent but could have been great. See more Son G 1d WHAT A WASTE OF TIME. Had it not be because of Netflix "forcing" this awful piece by putting "#1 in today movie" etc, I wouldve skipped altogether. They tried to create a "mindblowing" category of movie, but failed miserably. It started off as a doomsday scenario - Stop reading if you wish to watch this useless movie great flood hitting Earth, pending extinction bla2. Suddenly its time loop movie?- MOST TIME LOOP MOVIE HAS PROPER EXPLANATION OF A COMPLETE LOOP. THIS ONE DOESNT. And we realise the main character herself was AI, and the whole thing of doomsday was simulation. Then why you wanted to create human+emotion via AI, if the whole doomsday itself was a game/simulation/training for the AI? Nothing made sense, this is just one awful compilation of "mindblown" wannabe movie that turns out to be a hapless meaningless effort. If you disagree with me, just see its IMDB score and Rotten Tomatoes. Waste of time.Would've given 0 star, even negative if I could. See more Carlos T 1d Crítica | A Grande Inundação (2025) Ano:** 2025 Duração:** 1h48m Gêneros: Ficção Científica • Drama • Desastre • Suspense--- *A Grande Inundação* começa de forma abrupta e impactante: um tsunami engole a cidade, obrigando a protagonista a lutar pela própria vida e pela do filho enquanto a água sobe sem piedade. A entrada "conveniente" de Park Hae-soo, como um agente ligado à empresa em que Kim trabalha, sugere uma rota de salvação — mas também planta a semente da desconfiança. À medida que a história avança, o filme revela sua verdadeira proposta: um ciclo de morte e recomeço que se repete incontáveis vezes. O que parecia um simples filme-catástrofe se transforma em uma ficção científica sobre experimentação humana. Descobrimos que a própria Kim conduz o experimento, tentando criar seres humanos com sentimentos e pensamentos autênticos para garantir uma nova chance à humanidade após sua extinção. A ideia é ambiciosa, mas a execução não acompanha o peso do conceito. Avaliação 5 See more Streaming Without A @StreamingWithoutAPaddle 1d Andrew and Ted, hosts of the podcast Streaming Without A Paddle, both enjoyed this movie and they both thought that, literally, the first half of (or in this case the first trip to the roof) the movie was really good. Ted kinda nailed it for both of them when he broke his score down in two-parts. First trip to the roof was an 8.7 out of 10. On the other hand the second half of the movie or the next twenty-two thousand trips to the roof was a 5.5. In general, they both thought the story was intriguing, nothing wrong with the performances, and the production quality (especially the water SFX) were top notch. What really touched home with both of them was the threat of AI and a concern on their behalf of where society is heading. This movie, according Andrew and Ted, was just as much about the advent of AI and the future as much as it was about "The Great Flood". Andrew is of the belief that if you're into movies like the Matrix you'll enjoy this movie more so than who don't. See more 정은 박 @Happyde 2d 새로운 내용의 시도가 좋았다. 지루하지않았지만 다소 처음에 조금 더 일상에서 경험 할 수 있게 접근하며 안나 서사가 있었으면 좋았을것 같다 그래도 괜찮았다 See more Read all reviews
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Synopsis When a raging flood traps a researcher and her young son, a call to a crucial mission puts their escape -- and the future of humanity -- on the line.
Director
Kim Byung-woo
Producer
Chun Roy-Kyoung
Screenwriter
Kim Byung-woo
Distributor
Netflix
Production Co
Hwansang Studio Seoul
Genre
Sci-Fi, Action, Adventure, Drama, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language
Korean
Release Date (Streaming)
Dec 19, 2025
Runtime
1h 46m
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