2007 · drama · action · thriller
Flood
Directed by Tony Mitchell1h 50m2007
Timely yet terrifying, The Flood predicts the unthinkable. When a raging storm coincides with high seas it unleashes a colossal tidal surge, which travels mercilessly down England's East Coast and into the Thames Estuary. Overwhelming the Barrier, torrents of water pour into the city. The lives of millions of Londoners are at stake.
Our read: Flood (2007) reads as a sombre, breathless, grounded drama · action · thriller entry — measured in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, measured drama / action, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, epic, cold.
- sombre
- kinetic
- intense
- cold
- epic-stakes
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