Let's be realistic.

Instant Favorite.

In other words,this film is a surreal ride.

One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

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.

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.

**SPOILERS AHEAD**I saw that this movie had Paul Walker in it and I figured it wouldn't be too bad. I was wrong and disappointed.The most annoying part for me in the countdown on the battery pack, it took away any believability for me. My shed roller door has a 3 minute timer before it automatically shuts. In three minutes I have barely enough time get out of the car, remove my shopping and check the mailbox before it closes. The hero in this movie manages to run to the top of a hospital building (on more than one occasion) and even run outside to hunt for supplies with less time!! In fact he managed to get to the roof, attempt to flag down a chopper and get back to crank the hand generator all within 2 minutes. I mean, really? The only thing this movie needed to make my eyes roll further was a bomb that he manages to disarm as the timer hits 1 second. If only the movie was 3 minutes long, it would have made it bearable.This movie should be renamed, "Hours of Swiss Cheese" due to the amount of holes in this story of woe. I gave it an extra star only because of the eye candy (Genesis Rodriguez)

It kind of surprised me when I realized that there hadn't been any major movies about Hurricane Katrina and the devastation it brought to New Orleans and much of the Gulf Coast in 2005 – until "Hours" (PG-13, 1:37) hit theaters. Like many smart filmmakers, Eric Heisserer, who wrote this film and also directs (for the first time), tells a very big story through the experiences of a very small group of people. His approach personalizes the real life disaster and makes it easier to appreciate, as in "Titanic", "Pearl Harbor" and "The Impossible", the 2012 film about a tsunami hitting Thailand."Hours" adds to its degree of difficulty by allowing one actor to carry the vast majority of the film (like Robert Redford in 2013's "All is Lost", and especially Tom Hanks in the 2000 film "Cast Away"). This whole situation is all the more poignant because the star of "Hours", Paul Walker, didn't live to see this movie released. Walker plays Nolan Hayes, a New Orleans resident, who takes his wife, Abby (Genesis Rodriguez), to a local hospital when complications arise with her pregnancy. Abby dies and Nolan's baby girl is not yet breathing on her own, needing to be on a respirator for about 48 hours.Then, Hurricane Katrina robs the hospital of its power and the subsequent flooding takes out the back-up generators and forces the hospital to evacuate all its patients, staff, nurses and doctors. Since the baby can't be moved, Nolan remains there alone to keep her alive (using a generator which he must crank by hand every 2-3 minutes), while trying to signal for help and protecting himself and his little girl from various other dangers that the disaster brings their way. Minutes stretch into hours and Nolan grows increasingly desperate for help to arrive before either he or his baby succumbs to their overwhelming circumstances."Hours" is both an excellent thriller and a great drama and is the kind of movie that can even make a tough guy tear up. Walker is remarkable in this film. He does the best acting of his career, striking the perfect balance between his considerable emotional depth and his boyish charm. The tragedy and tension in the movie competed for my emotional attention with the sadness I felt believing that this film could have been a game-changer for Paul Walker's career. Either way, "Hours" deserves an "A".