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The Flu [Sub: Eng]
A terrible epidemic landed in Bundang is spreading everywhere. It causes the uncontrollable chaos. To prevent the disease spreading to other areas, a city just 19km from Seoul with a half million people is in the risk of being destroyed. Meanwhile, doctor In-hye and rescue worker Ji-goo have to go to the disease centre to find the serum to prepare the vaccine. Could they succeed in preparing medicine or the city will be destroyed?
19 May 1971, Watsonville, California, USA
1970, Chungcheongbuk-do, Cheongju, South Korea
21 June 1990
25 July 1981, South Korea
8 October 1982, South Korea
1 March 1971, South Korea
November 21, 2013
Korean director Kim Sung-su revives the '70s-style disaster movie, with somewhat iffy results.November 12, 2013
despite featuring mass death and Holocaust imagery... somehow FLU still finds plenty of room for goofy buddy comedy, mawkish romance and routines involving excessive child cutesiness. It is a misjudged mélange of incongruous tonesOctober 10, 2014
A well-made, edge-of-seat action thriller that's no more serious - and often just as much fun - as Channing Tatum's White House Down.November 22, 2013
From the opening caption 'This film is not based on real events', Flu has style and energy.September 05, 2013
Buried beneath a melodramatic plot rife with unlikely coincidences and a love affair with fewer sparks than Robert De Niro's 1990 wooing of Jane Fonda in "Stanley & Iris."November 21, 2013
Frequent spluttering montages provide silly fun, but this sort of doomsday projection surely ought to be terrifying.November 24, 2013
Kim Sung-su rallies the crowd and action scenes with ease, although the intertwining strands of the overcooked narrative occasionally threaten to unravel.November 20, 2013
Not so much World War Z as World War Zzzz.September 06, 2013
Mostly works on a visceral level in spite of its familiarity; these tropes exist for a reason.September 08, 2013
The Flu can best be described as South Korea's answer to Contagion. If it wasn't for the film's massive amount of theatrics in an already harrowing story, The Flu would be the best disaster film to come along since The Tower.