A deadly virus outbreak is spreading rapidly in a major city in South Korea. We follow a firefighter 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 of disgusting melodrama. But the movie is never boring. A lot happens here, a little too much so that realism disappears. After an hour, the movie takes a break. But it doesn’t take long before the pace increases again, and the plot offers a lot of variety.
The Flu looks like an expensive movie. The size and quality of the CGI impressed me. There are many people here too, I think The Flu had to cost a great deal to make. Imagine a movie like World War Z, only with real humans.
You don’t care about the characters in the movie. They don’t have much depth at all. The most charming character is the little young girl who is very sweet. But the characters are boring. The Flu has only stereotypical characters. And I hate stereotypical movie characters. They lack soul.
There is also a focus on politics. The South Koreans are getting tired of Americans in real life. They like to put the Americans in a bad spotlight in the movies they make and not in reality it seems. It’s not just Americans, it’s the foreigners who bring the infection into South Korea. The Flu is not exactly modest and cryptic with the message it conveys.
If you like epidemic movies, The Flu is worth checking out. This is a predictable movie, but it looks and sounds very good and the size of the movie is impressive with Western eyes.