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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
Ryan Syrek The Reader (Omaha, NE) Feb 5
B
I have to warn you that what I’m about to describe is going to sound infinitely better than it actually is. Imagine The Day After Tomorrow made a baby with The Matrix and Groundhog Day. Go to Full Review
Lyra Hale Fangirlish Jan 18
A
[...] what makes great sci-fi; our humanity and our ability to grow, learn from our mistakes, and try and try again. That’s what The Great Flood is about. Go to Full Review
Joshua Polanski In Review Online Jan 6
A half-baked science fiction thriller Go to Full Review
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Nam N @NamNguyen 1d Interesting idea that demonstrated the way AI develop. At first I expected a catastrophic movie but the twist is unpredictable and the second half is showing the whole different experience, which it is the "AI mom" journey to realize the mother-and-son love and bond to succesfully be the real mother. The idea to applied emtions into AI is to raise it from scratch, and the movie just shows the future of humanity where robots have feelings. However, the film might deemed hard to understand and dissapointed to audiences who looking for the normal survival experience. There're various details telling different stories about mother and son, such as there're the parents trying hard to give birth to their son and be happy although the huge flood is coming; or the girl choosing to stay with her family while death is waiting. Those spreading messages about the love and bond in family is precious. Also in Anna journey highlights the importance of caring children, their existence and feelings. See more dogo f @pochita_ 2d 7.2/10. Quite tough to rate. Deeply beautiful but horrifically flawed. Could be seen as an otherworldly mindfrick or Interstellar from Temu. The writing and story is so messy you might as well call it abstract art. I went into this blind as a it was a mystery screening but it was the strangest movie experience I’ve had in a while. Maybe I liked it more because I didn’t know anything about it to start with. The hate it gets is because it was marketed as something it wasn’t. The direction is amazing but the writing is something that only someone on drugs could come up with. Other than the first and last fifteen minutes it was mostly just a 5/10 film but the ending really saved it for me. See more Price H. @price7212 6d The kid actor is the worst. The mother actress is the worst. The premise is fine. 0 stars See more Maine E @Samantha537 Feb 14 The movie is so confusing 🥹🤷🏻‍♀️ See more texas t @Texasteacher26 Feb 12 I was confused 90% of the movie I had to go online so I could get help figuring out what was happening. See more Hayden B Feb 6 Great movie but can be very complicated if you aren't good at picking up on details or don't enjoy very complex movies maybe skip this one but otherwise amazing movie 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
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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