, based on the novel of the same name by Richard Doyle.? I have not yet had the pleasure of reading the book, which is probably for the best -- film adaptations to novels rarely hold-up in comparison, as far as I'm concerned.? And I am thoroughly happy *NOT* to have a reason to dislike this picture.This just in: British people know how to put together a decent disaster film.? This flick from across the pond could easily hold its own against the typical Hollywood-fare and resoundingly trounce a good number of them.
The basic concept centers on the confluence of high Spring tides and a monstrous wind-driven storm-surge that is too much for the Thames Barrier to handle.? Enter stage left: lots of wet, drowning British folk and a lot of drama; and what you end-up with is a very decent, above-average addition to the Disaster / Doomer Film genre.
The subject matter of this film also touches on an issue that has hounded me ever since the debacle that was Hurricane Katrina.? What kind of a moronic species are we that we routinely build population centers in known, historic flood plains?? It is insanity.? We're actually stupider as a species now than we were thousands of years ago -- even the Romans knew that, if you wanted to build on a flood plain, you better make 1000 slaves carry baskets of dirt around to raise the ground-level higher.? London, for its part, was originally a Roman city known as Londinium, but, back then, the city rested almost entirely atop two hills well above the reach of the Thames.
We are morons in comparison.
Source: http://www.backwoodssurvivalblog.com/2013/03/movie-review-flood-2007.html
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