These Final Hours
James spends his last 12 hour on Earth by coming to the party-to-end-all-parties. Along the way, he happens to save the life of a little girl named Rose who is desperately searching for her father. James is forced to make a lifetime decision of helping the girl as the final hours pass by.
1 March 1986, Wellington Point, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
July 1, 1963 in West Chester, Pennsylvania, USA
1980, Sunbury, Victoria, Australia
May 05, 2016
The plot might suggest a large-scale epic, but These Final Hours emerges as an intimate film about the end of the world.
May 05, 2016
It's grim but thought-provoking fare, which Hilditch handles with considerable skill.
May 22, 2016
In a strange way it makes a hopeful statement, arguing that redemption is still possible up until the very point we are engulfed in continent-buckling fireballs.
March 05, 2015
The low-budget Australian apocalyptic drama has such a terrific start - an adrenaline rush of panic and dread as a huge asteroid colliding with the Earth sends a wall of fire around the planet. It's a shame the movie peters out about halfway through.
December 17, 2016
It's the old mawkish story of a selfish adult reformed by a child, but the apocalyptic background throws up some lurid and unpredictable scenes.
March 05, 2015
Incoherent and pointless as it is, These Final Hours moves with commendable swiftness.
March 05, 2015
A run-of-the-mill apocalypse.
May 08, 2016
Although the film lacks the bravura of Von Trier's Melancholia or the heart and humour of Don McKellar's Last Night, it does have a propulsive energy and a satisfying arc of redemption.
March 05, 2015
An urgent yet strangely simple and humanistic doomsday scenario.
March 03, 2015
Despite its strong sense of place and a solid central performance from Nathan Phillips, Zak Hilditch's film is too blighted by the deja vu factor to stand out from the apocalyptic pack.
May 03, 2016
As low-budget Ozploitation goes, it's snappy and effective.
