A more aggressive, candid look at the human condition, dropping a bit of the idealism and metaphysical musings of its Canadian counterpart.

| Jan 30, 2023

These Final Hours is easily my favourite Australian film in years.

| Apr 9, 2020

Phillips gives his all in a display that showcases a multitude of emotions, and they all are stellar in appearance - he's come a long way from Wolf Creek and is poised to make a huge mark in the business shortly...

| Original Score: 3.3/5 | Apr 9, 2020

[The] film doesn't have any of the melancholy of its cousins; it's harsher and bleaker, as befits the Australian landscape. But it still manages to find the humanity in annihilation.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 9, 2020

These Final Hours is a dramatically thrilling addition to the pre-apocalypse genre - there's a simplicity to some of it, a predictability too, but it's as surefooted in its suspense and action beats as it is during its emotional ones.

| Original Score: B | Apr 9, 2020

If you're bored with this movie, I honestly don't know how to help you.

| Apr 8, 2020

These Final Hours may be that rare beast -- a low budget Australian film that could satisfy a multiplex audience in search of an edge-of-the-seat thrill.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Apr 8, 2020

A thrilling game of scruples.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 3, 2019

[A] gorgeously-shot Australian apocalyptic disaster movie that's part buddy comedy, part end of the world downer and packs just as much of a punch as its gorier bedfellows.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Oct 3, 2019

[A] blistering and noteworthy 2003 Australian apocalyptic low-budget film. In short, These Final Hours were well spent minutes on the clock in watching this well-structured doomsday drama unfold with intriguing forethought.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 10, 2018

These Final Hours sets up a simple redemption tale and convincingly stages mass panic on the sunny streets of Perth.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 27, 2017

Zak Hilditch's breathless... thriller tears through orgies, mass suicides and murderous rampages to conclude on a scene as moving and terrifying as the climax of Melancholia.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 1, 2017

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.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 17, 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.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 22, 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.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 8, 2016

The plot might suggest a large-scale epic, but These Final Hours emerges as an intimate film about the end of the world.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 5, 2016

It's grim but thought-provoking fare, which Hilditch handles with considerable skill.

| May 5, 2016

It's the end of the world. Finally, a legitimate reason for a man to experience emotion. We've seen this all before... except not quite so ridiculous.

| May 5, 2016

Hilditch's 'end of the world' effort is a movie that could well be a dark horse bet to be one of many people's favourite films of the year by the time that 2016 comes to a close.

| Original Score: 8/10 | May 5, 2016

Has more to say than your usual apocalyptic affair.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 5, 2016