The Flood

This could have been so much better. The story was quite good, but could have been told in half the time. The rest of the movie was padded out with pointless fantasy/dream sequences which added nothing at all to the story. It was also interspersed with random pop-type songs, totally out of keeping with the on-screen action or the time period setting. The action scenes and violence were over-the-top and unbelievable to the point where I thought the Director was trying to be Australia's answer to Tarantino!

A good story and acting although a bit fragmented in some places. Definately worth a watch

Granted, I only glanced at the movie's cover before sitting down to watching it, so I didn't really know what I was in for, as I hadn't heard about the movie prior to watching it, nor did I read the synopsis. I thought it to be a Western of sorts.

Turns out that this wasn't a Western at all. Instead I was sitting down to watch an Australian historical drama. And now I am not overly traversed within the Australian history, so this was all new territory for me. And from what the movie delivered to me in terms of entertainment and enjoyment value, I suppose you have to have been more familiar with the events of Australian history and culture to appreciate the movie fully.

Sure, "The Flood" was watchable, but it was hardly a captivating or overly impressive movie for me. Again, perhaps because I am not familiar with the Australian history. So I can't relate to the events in the movie's storyline, nor did I stand any chance of knowing what to be true or based on true events, and what was fictional make-belief.

The acting in the movie was good, although I felt that the storyline and the slow pacing of the movie was somehow holding back the performers in delivering everything that they could and should.

My rating of "The Flood" settles on a generous four out of ten stars. This movie wasn't really aimed at me as its target audience, and I wasn't really getting swept away, nor could I fully sink myself into the storyline and the events that transpired in the story. But I am sure that writer and director Victoria Wharfe McIntyre managed to dish out a movie that will have a greater appeal to people Down Under.

Good movie , Great dedication to the stolen children from the aboriginal community , To understand this film you need to understand the aboriginal culture . Don't go by FilmMcCool reviews him/her doesn't give many good reviews , You need to see for yourself to understand the film

We wish the producers had not embellished the story - a very important story of awful racial discrimination and persecution - with a seemingly endless mash-mash of dreams and fantasies switching back and forth with "reality" so that it became totally confusing. The gun battles were somewhat ridiculous and while it was good to see the persecutors being killed off, it then became confusing as to whether or not that had happened.

They missed a great opportunity to more correctly portray the dreadful injustices experienced by our Indigenous population in the mid 20th century.

Perhaps some other producer may eventually take the same story line and make it far more accurately show the experiences at that particular period.