The Flood

Such an amazing movie. The visuals are absolutely STUNNING but what really did it for me was the voice over. Her voice is so relaxing! We love our black queen Angela Basset!

The visuals and cinematographic efforts in this are terrific, including some angles that I personally hadn't seen before, despite it not being particularly groundbreaking subject wise.

The narration however was absolutely abysnal, to the point of having to stop watching half way through. Forced, over-dramatised narration, bringing some sort of ridiculous 'good and evil' and even slightly feminist tone to these animals and ecosystems, which by definition couldn't care less.

Recommended visual watch, if you turn the sound and/or subs off, but who watches a documentary without sound. If this existed without narration, it would be 10000% better. Sorry, but this is by FAR the worst narration I've heard in a long time!

Great footage, horrible narration. Beautiful video and cool angles and perspectives, but we just couldn't get over the horrendous script and voice performance.

A huge improvement on the quality of National Geographic's camera work. A very conventional Okavango documentary and no new ground broken. It is let down by Angela Basset's embarrassingly poor script and dreadful delivery. Her breathy monotone performance is saturated with saccharine artificial drama. A stereotypical bed time story delivery that completely lets down the otherwise food production. National Geographic would do well to find a narrator with true understanding and passion for the subject matter - not something that can be synthesised by a rather ordinary actress.

Marvelous footage. I do have to agree with some of the other reviewers that the narrator didn't do the script justice, which is a pity because Angela Bassett most certainly has "the funk", but she seemingly could not figure out how to deliver the affect that such a lovely documentary deserves.

The first few minutes of the film were refreshing as the viewer is drawn in and the engine is gathering steam, and I was able to make it through the first of the two part series, but I had to give up at the scene of the two lion siblings as they stand at the edge of the water.

The narrator just wasn't able to figure out if she was delivering to an adult audience or a juvenile one, and she tried too hard and fell too short.