That was an excellent one.

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

If you loved a 90 minute film of Paul Walker in a car ("19") you'll love another short titled Walker film "Hours" were he spends nearly the entire movie inside a hospital, particularly one room. During Hurricane Katrina his wife Abigail (Genesis Rodriguez) goes into labor and gives birth to a premature daughter who is placed on an IV and ventilator. As the hurricane intensifies, the hospital is evacuated until it is just Nolan (Walker) and his daughter and no power...except a hand crank generator. Nolan must turn the hand crank every three minutes or else his daughter will die. The film has some flashbacks to show us what a perfect couple he and his wife were. As the hours take their toll, Nolan fast and furiously attempts to get help, power, food, IVs, etc. in three minute intervals.Paul Walker did an excellent job with what was essentially a one man play. Unfortunately for me, I tend to find these one man movies, even when done well, less than entertaining. The film includes some footage of the storm and CNN news reports. The film is a drama thriller. It is light on the thriller part in order to make the production believable. Unfortunately it cut into the entertainment value.Parental Guide: No f-bombs, implied sex, no nudity.

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.

I was not expecting much and I got less. Walker is not a good actor. And he is not enough of an actor to carry a movie by himself. But he is not the main problem. The problem is that you know what will happen at any point in time. Yes. There will be a fight scenes. Yes. There will be a rescue scene. Yea. There will be more cheesy scenes than you can bear. And yes. There is an animal. Movie ticks all those boxes. But it is just not entertaining. And of course rescue comes at just the right time. Thank god it came after ninety minutes. I watched it until the end to be able to write a review. This was a waste of time.

Hours is a very good film, but reminding me of pResident Bush's comment of "way to go Brownie" for how the head of FEMA (mis)handled hurricane Katrina angered me and saddened me to no end. Work is a necessary aspect of life, work can even be a great thing, but our government should support people to not to have to suffer so much to succeed in life. pResident Bush could have done so much more to help the people of New Orleans and other victims of this hurricane, so sad that his response was an utter failure. Great movie though. Paul Walker plays a wonderful dad in a near impossible situation. This movie shows a lot of the best and some of the worst that humans can be.