Self-important, over-dramatic, uninspired.

I like Black Panther, but I didn't like this movie.

From my favorite movies..

It's funny watching the elements come together in this complicated scam. On one hand, the set-up isn't quite as complex as it seems, but there's an easy sense of fun in every exchange.

I saw HOURS described as a disaster movie but it's anything but. Instead it's a single location character drama for the most part, as the late Paul Walker is the sole resident of an evacuated hospital in New Orleans at the time of Hurricane Katrina. He can't leave as he has to keep his premature baby's incubator running by hand. Instead of thrills and spills, this is a quiet and dialogue based, exploring universal themes of courage and parenthood, grief and responsibility. Walker's okay - he was always a better actor than people expected given his popularity in the Fast & Furious films - but the pacing is slow and the direction fails to inspire, the movie only coming to life in the last 20 minutes or so.

Unfortunately, films are supposed to be 90 minutes long. What you have here is a great 50-minute idea. There are two choices for the filmmaker. Make a 50-minute film (which won't qualify for most festivals and certainly not for wide release) or come up with more plot complications for your script.Some of the reviews say this isn't "realistic." They didn't pay enough attention to the news in 2005. Things like this did happen during Katrina, and they will happen again, guaranteed. People who take too much effort to keep alive get triaged and left to die. Major disasters don't come around often, and people in "civilized" countries think they are immune to this level of logistical problem, but they are not. Next 9.0 earthquake in California, it will also be this bad and worse. People will be dying in the hallways or hospital lawns, unattended, undrugged, in pain, bleeding. So that's not a problem I had with it. I believed in the realism.The real weakness is, there's really only one plot problem to be solved, and we keep getting riffs on that one thing. Watching this felt like listening to a song with only two notes...and for 90 minutes. When the dog arrives, you nearly weep in relief that it's something else (though not much of a something), but the dog doesn't get to stay around or get developed as a character. (and the baby isn't a character at all. It's a Macguffin, at best.) By the time other characters appear, you're already numb with boredom, and it's too late to save the film.But Walker's acting is good, so it deserves some stars.

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.

I like this movie, so far, but I've only seen 40 minutes of it so far (on my roku netflix channel). The thing is that it is sad that Paul Walker died so young, my dad died at the same age too (only in 1967). Early 40s didn't seem 'so young' when I was in my 20s, but now I'm in pushing towards 70, yes, it is young. The problem I have with Paul Walker is that he started dating his girlfriend when she was sixteen (the girlfriend he still had when he died).... but HE WAS THIRTY-THREE at the time, and his own daughter was 16 too. Now there's no way a 16-year-old girl could have anything about her that would captivate a MAN of 33 except for a young body. But folks, this is not 1854, it's 2014. A 16-year-old GIRL with a 33-year-old MAN is simply PAEDOPHILIA in action. I mean, Mr. Walker didn't even leave that girl anything in his will. Nothing. Obviously he didn't care much about her, huh. Since he was, after all, just an actor (aka 'a parrot') and he didn't look very smart, it is 'possible' that he connected with her on her intellectual level. Who knows. But it still stinks... it's a sorry state of affairs (no pun intended) that the world lets 'famous' people like Elvis Presley, Roman Polanski, and probably Paul Walker, get away with child abuse. Roman Polanski had perverted people like Angelica Huston sticking up for his sexual abuse of a 13-year-old girl, by claiming that the 'girl' was 'a lot older' than her actual age. There are a lot of deviants in Hollywood. To BLAME a 13-year-old's sexual abuse on that 13-year-old, well, it just makes me wonder whether or not Angelica was abused by HER father, John Huston, and so she thought it was 'normal and natural' for an older ADULT MAN to rape her. I don't know. But when I found out about Paul Walker's girlfriend, I lost what little respect I had for him (which wasn't much because all he had was a pretty face, kinda like Brad Pitt and other pretty-boy actors (although of course Brad Pitt is not really a 'boy' any more). I wonder if I will like this movie by the time it's over, in an hour. hmmm.