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9 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 80EmpireKim NewmanEmpireKim NewmanSo many films address the premise because it’s always thought-provoking and affecting. This also has a bleached, depopulated, effectively catastrophe-struck feel and an intriguing adult-and-child road movie storyline.
- 80Total FilmJamie GrahamTotal FilmJamie GrahamSure, the core tale of personal redemption is standard stuff but Zak Hilditch’s breathless, batshit-crazy thriller tears through orgies, mass suicides and murderous rampages to conclude on a scene as moving and terrifying as the climax of Melancholia. Hold on tight.
- 70Los Angeles TimesGary GoldsteinLos Angeles TimesGary GoldsteinWriter-director Zak Hilditch, with a strong assist from cinematographer Bonnie Elliott (who's bathed her frames in a kind of eerie sulfuric yellow), has crafted an urgent yet strangely simple and humanistic doomsday scenario.
- 60Village VoiceDanny KingVillage VoiceDanny KingHilditch's approach to this end-of-days scenario can be heavy-handed... But Hilditch gets good mileage out of his cast.
- 60The DissolveMike D'AngeloThe DissolveMike D'AngeloThere’s a sentimental streak to These Final Hours, but in the end (heh), it feels as if it’s been earned.
- 60The New York TimesNeil GenzlingerThe New York TimesNeil GenzlingerThe lesson may not be particularly original, but the film has some striking moments as it follows him to his destiny.
- 60Time Out LondonTom HuddlestonTime Out LondonTom HuddlestonIt takes a while to find its focus – and takes itself just a little too seriously – but as low-budget Ozploitation goes, it’s snappy and effective.
- Incoherent and pointless as it is, These Final Hours moves with commendable swiftness.
- 50RogerEbert.comPeter SobczynskiRogerEbert.comPeter SobczynskiWhile it does have a few things of interest going for it, this low-budget effort ends up arriving at its necessarily predictable conclusion in too many unnecessarily predictable ways.