[BIFF 2025] 'The Great Flood' review: Kim Da-mi can't save puzzling Netflix fantasy

2/5 stars Drowning in ambition but narratively adrift, Kim Byung-woo's latest high-concept blockbuster opens with an apartment complex being consumed by a giant tsunami before morphing into a science-fiction thriller that defies simple explanation. Kim's filmography boasts a string of audacious genre-bending experiments, from The Terror Live to Omniscient Reader: The Prophecy. "The Great Flood," which premiered last week at the 30th Busan International Film Festival, is an action-packed puzzle box that continues in a similar vein. Kim Da-mi plays An-na, an AI developer and single mother who wakes to discover that Seoul is being bombarded by unprecedented rainfall and flooding, with the water level already reaching her second-floor flat. Just as she and her six-year-old son Ja-in (Kwon Eun-seong) are being evacuated to a higher floor, a giant wave crashes into the building, sending them and their escape plan into chaos. During its opening movement, "The Great Flood" is breathlessly tense, boasting impressive digital effects and a palpable sense of danger. An-na and Ja-in are repeatedly sepaWeiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei Korea Times Weiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei Korea Times