{"id":40283,"date":"2023-07-10T00:30:01","date_gmt":"2023-07-10T04:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=40283"},"modified":"2023-07-09T01:20:18","modified_gmt":"2023-07-09T05:20:18","slug":"the-flood-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/10\/the-flood-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"The Flood (2023)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>So basically, Brandon Slagle\u2019s \u201cThe Flood\u201d is \u201cAssault on Precinct 13\u201d but with killer alligators. That\u2019s it. That\u2019s the whole of the concept and premise. You can fill in the rest, if you\u2019ve been watching movies for a while; which is not to say that \u201cThe Flood\u201d is a bad film, it\u2019s just not something that I haven\u2019t seen before. Truth be told, there are nuggets of a great film embedded within \u201cThe Flood\u201d but if you\u2019re expecting a full on alligator siege movie in the vein of \u201cCrawl,\u201d then your best bet is looking elsewhere.<\/p>\n

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After a massive hurricane floods Louisiana, it unleashes a threat even deadlier than the rising water level: a relentless horde of giant hungry alligators. When a group of in-transit prisoners and their security guards seek shelter in a local prison, they become prey for the flesh-eating attackers. To survive, the prisoners and guards must fight together, in this action-thriller packed with slithery scares and jaw-clenching suspense.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know if it\u2019s the limited CGI budget, or lack of logical scenarios for the alligators, but they\u2019re just secondary villains when all is said and done. There\u2019s even a point mid-way where the alligators disappear for a long period. \u201cThe Flood\u201d does make good on its premise, revolving around an uneasy truce between prisoners and police officers during a massive storm. There\u2019s just not enough that plays on the tension and survival aspect, relying a lot more on quippy dialogue and scenes that feel like outright filler. There\u2019s even a pair of fight scenes mid-way that, while slick, just don\u2019t contribute anything to the overall narrative. It just feels a lot like treading water to get to the finish line.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s obvious the movie wants to deliver on a lot of gator rampage, but their appearances are brief, abrupt, and sometimes not too eventful. It doesn\u2019t help that a lot of the characters make bone headed decisions when approached by the killer gators. You\u2019d think that people that live in Louisiana would have a better knowledge of alligators, and how to evade, and or avoid them. But not even primary protagonist Sheriff Newman seems too aware on what to do in the event of a gator attack. In any case, Brandon Slagle\u2019s direction is very good and I enjoyed the self aware performances, especially by Nicky Whelan, who is fun in the role as heroine Sheriff Newman.<\/p>\n

According to the director, \u201cThe Flood\u201d seeks to be nothing more than a fun, action packed, survival flick, and in the department substance free movie junk food, it works more than it doesn\u2019t. I just wish we had more gator rampages, and less annoying banter.<\/p>\n

In Theaters, On Demand, and Digital on July 14th<\/sup>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So basically, Brandon Slagle\u2019s \u201cThe Flood\u201d is \u201cAssault on Precinct 13\u201d but with killer alligators. That\u2019s it. That\u2019s the whole of the concept and premise. You can fill in the rest, if you\u2019ve been watching movies for a while; which is not to say that \u201cThe Flood\u201d is a bad film, it\u2019s just not something […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[58,71,240,711,1012,1087],"class_list":["post-40283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie-reviews","tag-action","tag-adventure","tag-crime","tag-nature-run-amok","tag-survival","tag-thriller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40283"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40285,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40283\/revisions\/40285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}