Moustroll Good movie but grossly overrated

Matialth Good concept, poorly executed.

Comwayon A Disappointing Continuation

Casey Duggan It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

jormatuominen Sometimes in cinema less is more. Robert Redford showcased this in 2013´s All Is Lost and Paul Walker does in Hours filmed in the same year and of course being Walker´s final film. I would not call Hours a catastrophe film. Hurricane Katrina is over and it´s aftermath begins very early in the film. Essentially it is a very scary and eerie survival film taking place in an empty hospital where a young fathers fights for the survival of his newborn baby against, well, all and everything fate sees fit to throw at him. The beautiful city of New Orleans is just a backdrop - the film could take place in an empty space ship for all it matters. But is it as empty as Paul Walker´s character first fears and later hopes? This is slow cinema at it´s best as the task of keeping the baby alive gets harder and the anticipation of some kind of turn of events builds up over time. That´s why it´s called Hours. Yes sir, an action film it is not. At the time many reviewers seemed to think that this was some kind of a mistake or a way for the team to make a film cheaply. Well, since then writer-director Eric Heisserer wrote Arrival, so few would think that now. He knew what he was doing. So which one is the best in the one-man-against-pretty-much-the-rest-of-the-universe genre, the Martian (2016), 127 Hours (2010), Cast Away (2000), All Is Lost already mentioned or Hours? I love them all, but somehow Hours seems to stretch it´s obviously limited budget and gives more edge-of-the-seat adrenalin per buck.

Reno Rangan One of the final movies of a fine actor of our time, Paul Walker. Small budget movie, only because of the story that did not require a grand setting and spectacular graphics. The whole film takes place inside a hospital and a very few external shots glued to the narration in pieces to make an exciting tale. Its his back to back after 'Vehicle 19' which also had a limited cast. At least he and his directors with writers proved these kind of small movies has an equal level of interesting materials to the grand ones. So it's about how you make one with all the finite resources and the rest is left to the people who decides its fate.A trans-apocalyptic movie. Due to the circumstance where the story happens, there's no proper explanation for everything. Obviously leaves some doubts concerning the main plot, but what the story tells is the basic instinct of survival of any species of our world. So in this film all about stay alive and protect your loved ones or die trying.What a father's, at a time a husband's role should be when his family completely depends him. That's what the story where a man stands between his family and the hurdles that coming his way. Not a fancy visual film, but an entertaining thriller-drama gives extreme nail-biting moments with less talks and more in actions. Definitely a good movie7/10

zee Unfortunately, films are supposed to be 90 minutes long. What you have here is a great 50-minute idea. There are two choices for the filmmaker. Make a 50-minute film (which won't qualify for most festivals and certainly not for wide release) or come up with more plot complications for your script.Some of the reviews say this isn't "realistic." They didn't pay enough attention to the news in 2005. Things like this did happen during Katrina, and they will happen again, guaranteed. People who take too much effort to keep alive get triaged and left to die. Major disasters don't come around often, and people in "civilized" countries think they are immune to this level of logistical problem, but they are not. Next 9.0 earthquake in California, it will also be this bad and worse. People will be dying in the hallways or hospital lawns, unattended, undrugged, in pain, bleeding. So that's not a problem I had with it. I believed in the realism.The real weakness is, there's really only one plot problem to be solved, and we keep getting riffs on that one thing. Watching this felt like listening to a song with only two notes...and for 90 minutes. When the dog arrives, you nearly weep in relief that it's something else (though not much of a something), but the dog doesn't get to stay around or get developed as a character. (and the baby isn't a character at all. It's a Macguffin, at best.) By the time other characters appear, you're already numb with boredom, and it's too late to save the film.But Walker's acting is good, so it deserves some stars.

quincytheodore It's a massive undertaking of being a sole lead of a feature film like Tom Hanks did in Castaway or James Franco in 127 hours. While not as brilliant as above, Paul Walker displayed a heartwarming and sincere performance as a father who struggles to protect his child. He was more known for starring in Fast & Furious franchise, along with many other action movies, but I feel Paul Walker had only begun to mature as an actor, he will be sorely missed.Nolah Hayes (Paul Walker) is trapped in a hospital during her wife's labor and also hurricane Katrina, a mix of excellent timing and unfortunate fate. As the others evacuate he must stay because his newborn isn't strong enough for immediate travel. It's amazing how a simple premise can be explored so well with a good performance and a concept that's easily to connect with. Walker exhibits a wide range of emotion, from his self-doubt, rejection, anger and until his eventual acceptance to his morbid situation.There's a good direction involved, as well as a couple of witty gimmicks to ensure the sense of stress, but this is practically Walker's show. Without his genuine performance, not much of the plot could've been so easily associable with the audience. If you simplify the movie, it's basically only him in a room or a building, yet it still produces tension as one is drawn to root for his character.Pacing is sometimes slow, but it's just minor humps since the movie manages to display depth of human nature when faced with adversity. Dialogues are pretty good, although some consist of frantic laments. The crucial aspect is how Walker delivers it with a hint of desperation.Hours is a simple movie elevated by a great actor, who delivered one of his last and best performance.