Tom Dooley The end of the World is nigh and the people of Perth have been told they have a mere 12 hours to sort out their affairs. James is a bit self absorbed and has had a life mainly dealing with his own wants – though he is not a bad person. But as destruction approaches he is told of the party to end all parties and so heads off across a town where all semblance of law and order has broken down to get his rocks off.Along the way he comes across a seven year old girl, Rose, who has been split up from her father and, reluctantly, he decides to help her. The path to the reunification with her father takes him on his own path to find what truly matters to himself.Now this is a film with a simple plot but it is cram full of things that make it stand far out from the crowd. The acting is superb and Rose played by Angourie Rice is excellent and so are all the supporting crew. The cinematography is subtle but brilliant and the special effects are completely believable. The real strength is the story and the underlying emotions that are rumbling along like the clouds of destruction that act like an urban soundtrack as the film nears its conclusion. This is a film you will remember you will talk about and may even want to see again – it is that good – highly recommended.

Mikelikesnotlikes The premise is an asteroid strike on the far side of the earth. An impact so violent that the blast wave will spread across the entire globe in a rolling fireball. The fact that people the furthermost from the impending disaster now have a countdown for their inevitable deaths is explored (primarily using male and female 20 somethings).I found the actions believable as in we'd all react differently to being told we are about to die. Some people would go insane, some wold shrug it off, commit suicide, have a party, watch re-runs on TV. The gamut was well represented.As a debut feature by Zac Hilditch, I say well done. Suburban apocalypse has been done and done and done but this entry is original enough to still be wedged into the collection.Nathan Phillip's 'James' doesn't get any back story for us to judge his morals and ethics by. He does well to show how torn he is when a desperate instinct to die while smashed out of his head on alcohol and drugs is repeatedly interrupted. At first he manages to push his conscience aside as his girlfriend tells him she is pregnant. Angry and afraid he runs from her, heading to his best friends end of the world party and looking forward to hooking up with his old girlfriend.He has a few problems on the way and must abandon his car. On the look out for another vehicle he sees two pedophiles carrying a young girl they've snatched off the street into a house. His conscience will not allow him to steal their car and leave her to be attacked so he rescues her (Rose) Ingourie Rice. She is a natural born actor and I usually hate child actors.Rose wants to return to her Dad but James tries every other way to get rid of her. First he tries to drop her at his sister (already committed suicide), takes her to the rave party (where she is given Ecstasy), and then to his estranged mother (she's totally resigned to the impeding doom). There are some really good indicators along the way that he is becoming more and more attached to Rose but he really can't seem to work out why. His confusion is shown so well. Finally convinced that he isn't going to get a handle on his own problems in the time he has left, James resolves to at least deliver Rose to her Aunty. His good deed I guess.He leaves Rose at the Aunty's house after discovering the family has all committed suicide You'll just have to make up your own mind here but I found this scene quite moving and believable. It's the end of the world so you don't have the luxury of thinking through every possible scenario. The main point made was that Rose wanted to die with the person she loved (Dad) which make James realise that he wants to be with Zoe and his unborn child.I liked this film. Aussie culture is often depicted in extremely cringe-worthy ways, and some of the scenes were over the top stereo types. But as a whole this is the new generation of Australians.BTW guns are REALLY hard to get here so all the shooting was the most unreal part I thought. The cop was a good side step. I would have done a little more with that scene though.

Dustin Worcester It was a good take on the whole end of the world concept. A bit slow and choppy at times, but seemed at least somewhat real. I enjoyed the movie as a whole, for the most part but let's get to the point that this movie really drove home.....titties.Seriously, tons of them. Nice ones too. I saw ONE ugly set of titties the whole time (and trust me, they show a LOT of titties). A+ on keeping men interested. Sorry women, the best you get is a 3 second ass shot of the main character and then right back to ALLLLLLL the titties. Did a single adult female have a shirt on at all? I don't think so, at least not many, and not for very long. Overall, recommend it for either the actual content or just the titties. You'll appreciate at least one of the two.

ericrnolan "These Final Hours" (2013) is an unflinching Australian end-of-the- world movie that views humanity's last 12 hours through the eyes a flawed, desperate everyman. It's outstanding; I'd give it a 9 out of 10.This movie pulls off a pretty neat trick — it effectively portrays a global catastrophe with zero special effects until its closing set- piece. (And these visual effects work quite nicely for a low-budget film.) A meteor has struck the northern Atlantic, and a resultant wave of destruction is enveloping the earth. Its progress is documented in real time by a sad ham radio operator, wonderfully performed by David Field.What we see is gut-wrenching. Some people turn suicidal, a few turn homicidal. People drink, use drugs and have sex, either privately or not. Some are depressed, some are too drug-affected to care, and others are in shock. The rare, vain efforts to survive include the laughable (a tin foil-covered house) to the sadly insufficient (a stocked bunker that nevertheless isn't deep enough). One reaction is befuddling; we see a street barricaded with metal shopping carts with a sign cursing at passersby. This is a fatalistic story premise in which every character on screen is doomed to die within hours.We follow the surprisingly touching character arc for our troubled everyman. He's played by perfectly by Nathan Phillips. The young Angourie Rice is just as good as an incongruously self-controlled little girl who winds up his charge after being separated from her father. The cast is uniformly excellent. Hearing Kathryn Beck wail that she doesn't want to die is heartbreaking.For me, there were only a few flaws here. The pacing seemed … off somehow. This movie slowed toward the end, the nearer disaster approached. Phillips' protagonist seemed thinly scripted for much of the first hour. He seems like a generic guy, who plans to get drunk before the end of the world, which makes him much like nearly everyone else we see in this movie. Yes, he intervenes heroically when he first encounters the little girl, but we expect every movie protagonist to do that.With that said, however, every character did seem "real" to me, thanks to terrific naturalistic dialogue, written by Zak Hilditch. (He's also the director.) It made the drama hit home.