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.
July 1, 1963 in West Chester, Pennsylvania, USA
1 March 1986, Wellington Point, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
15 February 1988, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
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
An urgent yet strangely simple and humanistic doomsday scenario.
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.
May 03, 2016
As low-budget Ozploitation goes, it's snappy and effective.
March 05, 2015
Incoherent and pointless as it is, These Final Hours moves with commendable swiftness.
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 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.
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
A run-of-the-mill apocalypse.
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.
