20 Recent Movies With INSANE Twists
9. The Flood Is A Simulation - The Great Flood
If taken at face value, Netflix's South Korean disaster thriller The Great Flood revolves around a giant flood that sweeps the planet, all while an AI researcher, An-na (Kim Da-mi), desperately tries to keep her son Ja-in (Kwon Eun-seong) safe.
Though the trailer hints at a sci-fi twist, few could've predicted quite how off-the-rails this thing would go.
Firstly, Ja-in is revealed to be a synthetic child built from An-Na's own AI software, and secondly, the second half of the movie is a repeated AI simulation after An-na is mortally injured while evacuating Earth.
Basically, the rocket An-na escapes Earth in is hit by debris, mortally wounding her, but before she dies she has her consciousness transferred into an AI system, where it's used to develop emotional responses in AI through thousands of simulations of the flood.
Once the experiment is complete, An-na and Ja-in are kitted out with new synthetic bodies and sent back to Earth. The End.
"It was all a simulation" is basically the modern-day "it was all a dream," and while the ambition here is laudable, it was a bit of a drag for the many who were simply looking for a big spectacle of a disaster flick.