‘Hours’ Trailer: Paul Walker Races Against Hurricane Katrina
We’re used to seeingPaul Walkerdrive really fast —across Brazil,across Europe,across South Africa— butHourshas him engaged in a very different kind of race. Against Hurricane Katrina. Yup.
Walker stars as Nolan, a new dad who finds himself trapped in the ultimate worst-case scenario. His wife (Genesis Rodriguez) goes into labor weeks early, dying while giving birth to a tiny baby girl who can’t even breathe without the aid of machines.
Then, as if that weren’t terrible enough, the levees break, New Orleans is evacuated, and the power goes off. Nolan is left alone in the hospital to keep his daughter alive via a hand-cranked generator, which can only provide power for three minutes at a time. Watch the trailer after the jump.
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Walker had a career before theFast & Furiousfranchise, and still does plenty of work outside of it. It’s just that his non-F&Ffilms have been a mixed bag at best.Hoursprobably won’t be the biggest stinker in his career, but it’s unlikely to make much of an impression on anyone, either.
Varietywrote in their SXSW review of the movie that Walker “capably and compellingly rises to the demands” of the role, but most other critics weren’t as kind.THRfound that “the action hero isn’t up to the movie’s dramatic needs, and gets little help from his director,” andTwitchcalled the choice to put the movie on Walker’s shoulders a “mistake.”
At leastFilm School Rejectsgave him credit for trying, “mainly because you can see the effort in his face in every scene.”
Eric Heissererwrote and directed the film, which marks a change of pace for him. Previously, he was best known for writing horror scripts includingThe Thingprequel,Final Destination 5, and theA Nightmare on Elm Streetremake.Hourshits theatersDecember 13, just in caseThe Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaugis sold out.
