These Final Hours

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Movie
German title These Final Hours
Original title These Final Hours
Country of production Australia
original language English
Publishing year 2013
length 87 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Zak Hilditch
script Zak Hilditch
production Liz Kearney
music Cornel Wilczek
camera Bonnie Elliott
cut Nick Meyers
occupation

These Final Hours is an Australian end time - disaster movie from the year 2013. Directed by Zak Hilditch , who also wrote the screenplay, are Nathan Phillips and Angourie Rice can be seen in the lead roles.

action

An asteroid struck the North Atlantic, causing a global catastrophe that will wipe out all of humanity. In Perth, Australia, a radio voice reports that the global firestorm will reach Australia in twelve hours. Western Europe and North America are already "no longer available".

Against the backdrop of the disaster, the protagonist James has sex with his girlfriend Zoe in a house on the coast . Zoe reveals to James that he is pregnant with her . Nevertheless, he leaves Zoe to attend a doomsday party held by his friend Freddy. Zoe is left alone in the beach house.

James drives his car through a landscape marked by the disaster: abandoned and burning houses, dead people on the streets who apparently wanted to escape the disaster by suicide , traces of chaos and riot. Shortly after the radio announced that there were ten hours left in Western Australia, James' car was stolen. He observes how two men kidnap a girl of about ten into a house. On the spur of the moment, he frees the child, killing the two kidnappers in self-defense.

The rescued woman, Rose, was on her way to see her aunt with her father. When the gas ran out, the two were separated. Rose asks James to take her to her aunt. Both set off in the kidnappers' vehicle. Since James wants to get to his party, he decides to hand Rose over to his sister, who has three daughters, on the way. He finds his sister's house apparently abandoned. While Rose is swimming in the family pool, James discovers the bodies of his sister and brother-in-law in the house, as well as three children's graves in the garden of the house. In the face of the impending catastrophe, the couple had apparently killed their children and then themselves. Shaken, James drives on to the party with Rose in his sister's vehicle.

Once there, the two find an orgy : those present consume alcohol and other drugs uninhibited , copulate with each other and play Russian roulette . James is coerced into sexual intercourse by Freddie's sister Vicki, but refuses to do so. Vicki shows James a bunker in which she and her brother want to survive the apocalypse. James makes it clear to her that no one will survive and leaves. He frees Rose from the clutches of a woman who believes Rose is her daughter Mandy and who has given her drugs. Then he leaves the party with the unconscious child.

He brings Rose to his mother, where she comes to again. James does not tell his mother that their daughter and granddaughters are no longer alive. He says goodbye to her in order to bring Rose to her aunt.

Rose and James arrive at Rose's aunt's house. However, James finds the family lifeless, and Rose's father is among the dead with a gunshot wound . Rose nevertheless wants to stay with her relatives and makes it clear to James that he should return to Zoe.

He makes his way back and can reach the beach house shortly before the wall of fire arrives. He meets Zoe on the beach; she is angry at first, but then sinks into his arms. Together they both face the firestorm rushing from the sea until it seizes them.

background

The film premiered on August 2, 2013 at the Melbourne International Film Festival and was released in Australian cinemas on July 31, 2014. Shot on a budget of 2.5 million Australian dollars , the film grossed 360,234 Australian dollars in Australia. In German-speaking countries, it was released directly on DVD and Blu-ray on February 19, 2015 .

Reviews

When critics portal Rotten Tomatoes , the film received 81% positive reviews.

Torsten A. Meier reviewed for n-tv , These Final Hours are part of a series of doomsday films that are extremely worth seeing, which do not come along with loud noise and action bombs, but quietly and unobtrusively find their way into the viewer's brain. "The film is "impressive and with the typically apocalyptic-looking shots of the Australian wasteland results in an end-of-time thriller that can be seen."

Michael Sennhauser judged for the SRF that the film was the “impressive return of an end-time hero” - “35 years after Mad Max , Australia has another apocalypse hero.” “By reducing the end-time scenario to the simple question of what to do with the last Hours ”, he gains“ an existential stunner ”. Final Hours thesis "transcends" the genre and is therefore an "independent work of art", but at the same time validates "the underlying genre mechanisms by showing where their power comes from."

Awards

Sarah Snook was named Best Supporting Actress at the 2015 Australian Film Critics Association Awards .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for These Final Hours . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , November 2014 (PDF; test number: 148 294 V).
  2. ^ Karl Quinn: Filmmakers' apocalyptic obsession will be the ruination of us all . In: The Sydney Morning Herald . July 28, 2013. Retrieved July 15, 2015.
  3. ^ These Final Hours . In: Box Office Mojo . Retrieved December 19, 2014.
  4. ^ These Final Hours . In: Rotten Tomatoes .
  5. ↑ Torsten A. Meier: What else would you do? , ntv.de, accessed on May 7, 2016
  6. ↑ Michael Sennhauser: Impressive return of an end-time hero , SRF.ch, accessed on May 7, 2016
  7. ↑ http://www.screenwest.wa.gov.au/news-and-events/news_articles/2015/February/Pages/These%20Final%20Hours%20actress%20wins%20AFCA%202015%20Award.aspx

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