
The worst epidemic ever seen is sweeping through Bundang, the suburb of Seoul. After smuggling illegal immigrants into the country, Byung-woo dies from an unknown virus. Soon after that, the same symptoms are plaguing scores of residents in Bundang. People are helpless against the airborne disease and the number of infected increases quickly, spreading chaos. As the worst-case scenario precaution, the city of half a million people, just 19 kilometers from Seoul, is about to b... (Full plot summary below)
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The worst epidemic ever seen is sweeping through Bundang, the suburb of Seoul. After smuggling illegal immigrants into the country, Byung-woo dies from an unknown virus. Soon after that, the same symptoms are plaguing scores of residents in Bundang. People are helpless against the airborne disease and the number of infected increases quickly, spreading chaos. As the worst-case scenario precaution, the city of half a million people, just 19 kilometers from Seoul, is about to be sealed off. The government orders a complete shutdown. Meanwhile, infectious disease specialist In-hye and rescue worker Ji-goo go into the closed city to find the blood serum of the index case, a crucial part of developing the vaccine.
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| Birmingham PostGraham YoungFrom the opening caption 'This film is not based on real events', Flu has style and energy. |
| OverlandTara JudahAs a viewer, then, the challenge isn't to survive the narrative, but to leave the screenings unscathed by the conservative, hetero-procreative agenda. |
| Grolsch Film WorksAnton Biteldespite 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 tones |
| L.A. WeeklyMichael NordineMostly works on a visceral level in spite of its familiarity; these tropes exist for a reason. |
| Little White LiesDavid JenkinsKorean director Kim Sung-su revives the '70s-style disaster movie, with somewhat iffy results. |
| Total FilmJames MottramThe result? Not so much "World War Z" as World War Zzzz. |
| GuardianMike McCahillCoughs and sneezes do indeed spread diseases in this amusingly feverish thriller, a Korean attempt to take back some of those lurgies let loose by Soderbergh's colder-blooded "Contagion." |
| User ReviewJoe MI started watching it thinking a serious drama like outbreak....and immediately the rom-com antics and the insanely adorable kid made me think I made a mistake and accidentally started watching a kdrama. Then the film got serious and had many twists and turns. I ended up really enjoying it. Some of the side story characters popped in and out leaving me wondering what their point was, but I was fully invested enough in the main characters that I let it slide as just ways to paint the general sentiment of the average person. Kudos for: - patient zero being Filipino - not having an American-style love story with the obligatory sex scene (yes my fellow Americans, when we meet someone we are interested in, it doesn't mean we immediately jump in bed with them) |
| User Reviewjavier lgood action movie it all talks about infection of the flu |
| User ReviewMichaël GFlu is OK drama about this Korean city infected by H1n1 virus is about the people affected by this virus. It is a low budget movie from Korea. C+ (2013) |