Flood: A River's Rampage (TV Movie 1997)

Flood: A River's Rampage (TV Movie 1997). 1h 36m | PG

“FLOOD: A RIVERu0026#39;S RAMPAGE is yet another in the long line of TV-made disaster movies that attempt to emulate the biggies on a much smaller scale and budget. This one stars a slumming-it Richard Thomas as the archetypal nice guy who has to step in when the Mississippi bursts its banks and floods a small town.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe plot has two strands that alternate and sometimes join together. First, thereu0026#39;s the usual town-must-pull-together type stuff, which is all pretty bad and uninteresting; there are only so many scenes of people building a wall of sandbags that you can take, and the rest of the special effects are virtually nil. The second plot strand involves a stubborn family who refuse to move out of their home, with inevitable results.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThereu0026#39;s some cheesy acting to be enjoyed here, along with a solid siege scenario – instead of defending their farmhouse from zombies or birds or killer bees, itu0026#39;s rising water – although by the very nature of it itu0026#39;s all over rather quickly. Thomas is uninteresting as is the rest of the cast and itu0026#39;s all by the numbers, but believe me, there is plenty worse in this genre…”