“The Flood” (* out of four) was a miserable melodrama set during WWII about an Aboriginal woman (Alexis Lane) whose husband and daughter and land are taken from her and she embarks on a brutal round of frontier vengeance to reclaim what’s hers but finds that this is a more difficult odyssey than she anticipated. Could have been an interesting look at a different time and culture but winds up pretentious and boring instead. Film’s climax finally comes alive but by that point film is too far gone for it to matter.