These Final Hours (2014)

Simply, excellent. Everything about this film is wonderful.

If you expect catastrophic scenes and special effects will remain disappointed. The movie, about the last hours before the holocaust, focuses mainly on human impending disaster reactions; there are no scenes of destruction.The question in here is: what would the people do knowing that the end of the world, life, is near and inevitable?Well, I found it interesting and above all realistic enough. The last hours of our main characters are probably more significant than what we see around in the movie and so I found a certain empathy with him.Probably this film would have been more interesting by looking to a larger urban context and so, by offering more insights. Anyway the film is beautifully packaged and the acting more then decent and likely.7/10

This movie is perfect.Great acting ,the little girl was amazing, i like deep movies and this one fits.Australian movies are getting better again, I even love Crawlspace despite the harsh critics it got. This is a good movie about the end of world, sometimes reminds me of The road and also Melancholia from lars, the music was touching. I give this movie a solid 10, because i love doomsday films hopeless and sad like this one. So if you like those kind of flicks go for it, is a hell of a ride, I have some other friends they would act as crazy as those in the movie in the edge of fear and death, my mother wouldn't understand haha....its coming...

"These Final Hours" (2013) is an unflinching Australian end-of-the- world movie that views humanity's last 12 hours through the eyes a flawed, desperate everyman. It's outstanding; I'd give it a 9 out of 10.This movie pulls off a pretty neat trick — it effectively portrays a global catastrophe with zero special effects until its closing set- piece. (And these visual effects work quite nicely for a low-budget film.) A meteor has struck the northern Atlantic, and a resultant wave of destruction is enveloping the earth. Its progress is documented in real time by a sad ham radio operator, wonderfully performed by David Field.What we see is gut-wrenching. Some people turn suicidal, a few turn homicidal. People drink, use drugs and have sex, either privately or not. Some are depressed, some are too drug-affected to care, and others are in shock. The rare, vain efforts to survive include the laughable (a tin foil-covered house) to the sadly insufficient (a stocked bunker that nevertheless isn't deep enough). One reaction is befuddling; we see a street barricaded with metal shopping carts with a sign cursing at passersby. This is a fatalistic story premise in which every character on screen is doomed to die within hours.We follow the surprisingly touching character arc for our troubled everyman. He's played by perfectly by Nathan Phillips. The young Angourie Rice is just as good as an incongruously self-controlled little girl who winds up his charge after being separated from her father. The cast is uniformly excellent. Hearing Kathryn Beck wail that she doesn't want to die is heartbreaking.For me, there were only a few flaws here. The pacing seemed … off somehow. This movie slowed toward the end, the nearer disaster approached. Phillips' protagonist seemed thinly scripted for much of the first hour. He seems like a generic guy, who plans to get drunk before the end of the world, which makes him much like nearly everyone else we see in this movie. Yes, he intervenes heroically when he first encounters the little girl, but we expect every movie protagonist to do that.With that said, however, every character did seem "real" to me, thanks to terrific naturalistic dialogue, written by Zak Hilditch. (He's also the director.) It made the drama hit home.