‘These Final Hours’: Australia Dies Last

Hedonism and heroism go head to head in this end-of-the-world drama.
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James has mainly gone through life as a surly, self-absorbed slacker, but he is turning over a new leaf. Frankly, his efforts to reform his worthless life come in just under the wire. However, they still count for a lot in Zak Hilditch’s doomsday drama “These Final Hours.”

The comet or whatever it was originally impacted in the North Atlantic. Western Europe was wiped out first and New York soon followed. The apocalyptic shockwaves rippling across the globe will reach Western Australia last, giving the citizens of Perth enough time to anticipate the wrath about to hit them. They will deal with it in very different ways.

The immature James is determined to meet his end in a state of debauched delirium, so he leaves the lover he is with to join his even shallower girlfriend at a hedonistic end-of-the-world party. In doing so, he fully realizes he is leaving the woman he always should have been with, in favor of the profoundly wrong one.

Nathan Phillips as James and Jessica De Gouw as Zoe, These Final Hours - Photograph by David Dare Parker
Nathan Phillips as James and Jessica De Gouw as Zoe, These Final Hours - Photograph by David Dare Parker
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