These Final Hours 2014

Guy Lodge, Variety: Technically auspicious but narratively hollow. Read more

Vadim Rizov, AV Club: Incoherent and pointless as it is, These Final Hours moves with commendable swiftness. Read more

Cary Darling, Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com: The low-budget Australian apocalyptic drama has such a terrific start - an adrenaline rush of panic and dread as a huge asteroid colliding with the Earth sends a wall of fire around the planet. It's a shame the movie peters out about halfway through. Read more

David Rooney, Hollywood Reporter: Despite its strong sense of place and a solid central performance from Nathan Phillips, Zak Hilditch's film is too blighted by the deja vu factor to stand out from the apocalyptic pack. Read more

Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times: An urgent yet strangely simple and humanistic doomsday scenario. Read more

Neil Genzlinger, New York Times: A run-of-the-mill apocalypse. Read more

Geoff Pevere, Globe and Mail: It's a drive through familiar terrain, the end of the world as we already know it. Read more

Bruce Demara, Toronto Star: An intense and powerful what-if drama ... Read more

Danny King, Village Voice: Hilditch gets good mileage out of his cast. Read more