The Flu (2013) (English)

An epidemic is spreading rapidly in a major city in South Korea. We follow a fireman who tries to help a mother and her young daughter when the authorities are about to lose control. The mother may have the solution to a cure since she is a doctor, but danger lurks everywhere and people are dying like flies.

The Flu is very predictable and very South Korean with a dose disgusting melodrama. But the film is never boring, it happens a lot here, a little too much so that realism disappear. After an hour the film stops a little, but it does not take long before the tempo increases again and the movie offers a lot of different situations.

The Flu looks like a very expensive film. I was impressed by the size and quality of the CGI. There are many people here too, I think The Flu had to cost a great deal to make. Imagine a film like World War Z, only with real people.

You don’t care about the characters in the film, they dont have much depth at all. The charm troll in the movie is the little young girl who is very sweet. But the characters are boring, the film has only stereotypical characters without their own soul.

The film also has some politics, the South Koreans are starting to get a little tired of Americans in real life as they like to put the Americans into the movies and not in reality. It’s not just Americans, it’s of course the foreigners who bring the infection into South Korea. The Flu is not exactly modest and cryptic with the message it spreads.

If you like epidemic movies, The Flu worth checking out. This is a predictable film, but it looks and sounds very good and the size of the film is impressive with Western eyes.

6/10

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The Flu (2013) (English)

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