Welcome to Movie Shortens. Follow us today to a 2013 Australian sci-fi apocalyptic thriller film
called: These Final Hours. Before we start, be aware: there are spoilers!
As we begin the film, we see James together with his girlfriend Zoe.
Neither of them says a word for a while and then shortly after, they become intimate.
We flash forward to a time a little bit after the two were together, with James driving down
the road in a panic. James listens to the radio with many distress calls being put out
over the airwaves. James continues to listen as he hears that there has been some natural disaster
in the ocean outside of Perth, Australia, that is leading to the end of the world.
He continues to drive down the road, seeing the chaos ensuing outside, with many people
injured or going crazy. We then see James confess his fear of the impending end of the world to Zoe.
He also tells her that he wants to go to a party that is happening before the world ends.
In the present, James is driven into a roadblock and stops his car.
He immediately is threatened by an angry man who forces him to drive in a different direction.
The man is clearly crazy as he rambles nonsense about the people who are trying to survive the
apocalypse. After a short drive, he forces James to stop the car if he goes to kill
a random man on the road. Frightened, James begins to flee but is chased after by the deranged man.
James has chased through the neighborhood until he finally takes shelter underneath the car to hide.
The man eventually goes in a different direction and James is safe for now.
Immediately after, James sees that nearby a young girl named Rose has been kidnapped by two men and
taken into a house. James goes to steal the two men's van, but is unable to leave the young girl
behind. James goes inside the two men's house in search of Rose but is then attacked by them.
After a fierce struggle, James kills the two men and rescues Rose. He takes her out to the van
but she is hesitant to get inside again. James finally convinces her and they leave.
Rose goes on to tell James that her family was headed to her aunt's house in another city,
but lost her dad along the way. As they go in search of Rose's father near an ice rink
where he left his car, James listens to the radio as it continues to describe the downfall of Earth.
James eventually has enough, telling Rose that her father is not around. Rose asks if James can
take her to her aunt's house in another city. James initially refuses, but then tells Rose he
will take her to his sister's house instead. Eventually James and Rose reach James's sister's
house. They investigate around the house, but they don't see anybody. Turning a corner, James ceases
water running down the stairs, and that worries him, so he tells Rose to go swim outside while he
looks further upstairs. Upon going upstairs, James sees his sister and her husband have already died.
As he steps out to the balcony, he also sees a grave for the three children. Jane then goes
to leave without Rose but she catches up to him and he reluctantly lets her in the car,
telling Rose his sister isn't at home. We can flashback to when James was still with Zoe,
he tries to comfort her about their impending doom. She tells James that she is pregnant with
his child. James becomes angry that Zoe has told him the shocking news, and she asks him to stay
with her. James is adamant that nothing matters anymore, and he doesn't want to feel anything when
the end comes for him. Zoe tells him that life is stronger than death, but James leaves anyway.
Flashing back forward to the present, Rose offers James a wrap for his bleeding arm.
As she helps wrap his arm, Rose expresses his worry about where she will end up after she dies.
She expresses guilt over a mistake she made some time ago
but James tells her bad things just happen and it's not her fault. He also refused her thought
that this was all within any God's plan, calling the world ending a dumb way to do things.
James and Rose then enter a library to speak with a police officer about leaving Rose
in his family's care. However, they change their minds and turn to leave, but the police officer
stops James and asks him to do a favor: help him to put an end to him and his family's life.
James refuses, and the police officer asks that James forgive him for what he has to do.
James initially refuses but feels threatened by the policeman,
so he does and slowly walks away with Rose. Continuing along their journey, James and Rose
finally make it to the party that James has been wanting to go to. James and Rose enter the party
as it is in full swing, and after pushing their way through the crowd of people, they
go to meet James's friend Freddy. The duo then go to find James's actual
girlfriend Vicky who is somewhere in the party. Upon seeing Vicky, she then takes James away
and leaves Rose by herself at the pool. Shortly after James and Vicky become intimate,
but James is distracted. James tries to tell those about the things that have happened along the way,
especially the death of his sister, but Rose doesn't want to hear it.
Meanwhile, Rose is in the pool but is soon accosted by a strange woman who thinks
Rose is her daughter. The woman tries to get Rose to take a pill,
and Rose reluctantly agrees, but only if the woman will take her to her aunt's house.
Elsewhere, Vicki shows James an underground bunker Freddy has prepared to survive the end
of the world. James says it's all pointless, calling Freddy's plan dumb and useless.
Back at the pool, Rose is feeling the effects of the pill she has taken
Meanwhile, James and Vicky begin to argue about James spending time with Zoe. Vicky
begins to get very angry but then very scared immediately after saying she does not want to die.
They embrace and James tells her that he's scared as well, but he has to leave
the party to take Rose to see her father. Suddenly Freddy appears, and he is upset that
Vicky has shown James his bunker instead of himself. Freddy sees Vicky is crying,
and James begins to yell at him for telling her that they can survive the end of the world.
Outside, James finds the woman who gave Rose the pill with Rose, who has now become ill due to the
effects of it. James tries to take Rose away from the woman, but Freddy appears and won't let him,
thinking that Rose is the woman's daughter. Vicky appears, taking the gun from Freddy
and kills the woman trying to take Rose. James then runs to a nearby underpass with Rose,
trying to nurse her back to health. James then steals a taxi and then drives furiously to his
mother's house to get help for Rose. Once Rose is situated, James's mother reprimands him
for not showing up earlier. James and his mother then talk about
his sister. James tells her about his visit to her home earlier, but lies about what actually
happened to them. James then asks his mother to use her car, and she is in disbelief that he still
wants to help Rose. She tells him that someone stole her car, and they both have a laugh at
the irony of it all. James's mother directs him to a shed to find some petrol cans, and he asks
what she's going to do before the end. She tells him she is going to do something simple and he
looks at her incredulously, but continues on. Shortly after, Rose is finally awake and James
checks up on her before they go to leave. James goes to say goodbye to his mother,
who tells him that he's doing a good thing helping Rose find her family.
James and Rose continue on their journey as the radio continues to play, continuing to share
the news of the decimation of the world. Sometime during the drive, Rose apologizes for the trouble
she got into at Freddy's party. James consoles Rose telling her that she should not be upset
when she meets her father. Rose asked about James' relationship with Vicky,
stating Vicky to be weird, and that she thought James would have a nicer girlfriend.
Finally arriving at Rose's aunt's house, Rose rushes to go find her family as James follows
behind. They both search around the house but are unable to find anyone. Rose runs off to
a nearby pond hoping to find her family, while James wanders around the property. He continues
his wandering and ends up coming across the dead bodies of Rose's family, including her father.
Immediately after, Rose approaches James, asking if he found anybody. Rose realizes something is
wrong and goes to search the area James was just in. James stops her, but it's unable to tell her
what happened. He finally breaks down and tells her that they are all dead, and she rushes to try
to see the bodies but he again stops her. He apologizes to Rose, but she's adamant about
confirming whether it is indeed her father or not that is dead. James carries her father's body to
her, and upon finally seeing him, she breaks down and cries uncontrollably. James tries to take her
away but she refuses, saying that she needs to stay with her dad when the end comes for her.
James watches over Rose as she makes a makeshift gray for her father, and he gives her a picture
that her dad had in his possession. James then tells Rose about Zoe and how he would have been
a father if the end of the world had not been coming. Rose tells James that there was still time
to see Zoe and make things right with her. They embrace, and tell each other goodbye
for the last time as James goes to be with Zoe. James tearfully waves goodbye to Rose
and his rear view mirror, and continues for the final stretch of his journey, eventually
breaking down and sobbing as he drives away. James drives to go see Zoe as he listens to the
radio counting down the final hour before the end of their world. Unfortunately, James's car
overheats, and forces him to stop. James exits the vehicle and continues to run down the road,
exhausted and tired. He races against the time to reach Zoe as the minutes count down
and the sky begins to darken. He finally reaches Zoe's house, calling out her name
as the Earth begins to rumble around him. He doesn't find her in her room, as he stops to
collect his breath. He looks out the window and sees the massive clouds gathering in the ocean in
front of him. He runs to the beach, and sees the enormity of what is about to happen.
He sees Zoe standing at the edge of the beach and rushes out to be with her. She is angry that
he left her behind, initially pushing him away. James frantically apologizes as Zoe continues to
yell at him and hit him. He eventually manages to embrace her and tells her that he loves her,
apologizing again. Zoe finally calms down and begins to cry as they hug and she says that she
loves James as well. They just passionately as the fiery cloud draws ever closer.
In their final seconds, Zoe claims the rumbling destruction to be beautiful, and in a flash they
are consumed in the flames of destruction. Like and Subscribe to watch more videos like this,
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