The second half-hour of this movie didn’t grab me at all! Too bad!
Between the scenes I’d seen before, the uninteresting dialogue, and long, boring stretches, I found myself zoning out several times. Not to mention the guy we thought was dead who shows up again in pretty good shape!
Still, the beginning is excellent—with the storm, followed by the flood, spectacular accidents, and the appearance of sharks—everything was well-paced.
There are all kinds of characters. The young agoraphobic who doesn’t realize what’s about to happen, the heavily pregnant woman who had to work an extra day and doesn’t know the road is already blocked for her car, the trio of adopted kids who seem to have awful parents.
With climate and weather changes, this kind of flood could happen. On the other hand, I’m not so sure about the sharks showing up. To be verified!
This movie is like Crawl (2019), except that one has crocodiles. And, frankly, Kaya Scodelario is a much better actress than anyone here. So it’s hard to raise the movie’s quality to the same level as the water. At the same time, you’ve got to start somewhere.
One of the biggest pleasures (as in many movies I don’t like) is hearing Vanessa Carlton’s song “A Thousand Miles”! The scene is powerful at first, but it also veers into the ridiculous.
Childbirth always looks so easy in these movies. You push a couple of times, and out comes the baby! And you can do it anywhere, alone or with a partner!!!
No, really! It’s laughable. Just like so many other things! Setting your baby down on a little wooden box while you go fight a shark, taking it on with your bare hands, and rushing right back! Or aiming a gun at a shark that’s faster than a high-speed train and actually hitting it. Or dodging a furious shark just by jumping to the side in the water.
At one point, the kids are playing in the water and someone announces there are snakes. It would have been nice to see them. That could have added some excitement. A movie with sharks, snakes, and crocodiles would be a blast! But we don’t see any snakes biting their tails… just sharks!
This movie isn’t a Sharknado, so it wasn’t meant to be a B or Z-movie to begin with. But it’s as if it wanted to be half-and-half. A serious first half, a ridiculous second half. It ends up sinking completely. I don’t even know if it’ll appeal to B-movie fans.
Basically, the flood didn’t just destroy an entire city—it managed to sink this movie and drown it for good.
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