In Bondang, a very serious epidemic has spread and everyone seems to have become a collapse because of that epidemic. Specialists have moved to prevent the spread of the disease to other areas, as there is a city located 19 kilometers from the city of Seoul with half a million people at risk. But there is only one person, Dr. En Hai, who, along with rescue worker Ji-Joo, arrives at the center of the disease to find the vaccine to prepare a vaccine that may kill everyone.
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."
Examiner.com
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.
Kim Sung-su rallies the crowd and action scenes with ease, although the intertwining strands of the overcooked narrative occasionally threaten to unravel.