Walker all the way
28 Dec 2013 1:08 AM GMT
I would not miss Hours for the world and it is only because of Paul Walker. And it is to him - I give the stars.
At this point I must say, the four stars are not just because Walker is no longer there, but he really deserves it for this movie. So long we have seen him play it up with Vin Diesel, but Hours has Walker carry the entire movie on his well-built, incredible shoulders. Sigh!
Hours doesn’t have a very compelling story line. It is all about the lives of a man and his new-born daughter as it hangs in balance between life and death as the legendary Hurricane Katrina descends upon New Orleans.
Nolan’s (Paul Walker) wife Abigail (Génesis RodrÃguez) goes into labour five weeks early and he manages to rush her to the hospital just before the storm hits. She dies at childbirth leaving Nolan with his barely-a-few-hours-old daughter. But the trouble is just pilling up the baby must be fed by IV and placed on ventilator for the next 48 hours to survive. And then Katrina hits.
Hours is about Nolan struggling to keep his daughter alive while trying to deal with the blow of his wife’s death. Like Sandra Bullock in Gravity and Tom Hanks in Cast Away, Nolan finds ingenious and a heart-wrenching way to count the hours keeping his daughter alive. He tells her stories of her mother, shows her pictures and her rings placing them on top the ventilator, one by one, as he flits in between cranking the battery up as power backup fails in the hospital.
Walker makes the hours count. He pushes his mind and body to keep functioning against odds to keep his child alive for that is the only thing that matters. Seeing Walker fill up the screen like he does for Hours, punches a hole in you. It did to me.
Don’t watch Hours because you have nothing else to watch this week -watch it because Walker is brilliant in this movie. And that’s a promise. RIP Paul Walker.
At this point I must say, the four stars are not just because Walker is no longer there, but he really deserves it for this movie. So long we have seen him play it up with Vin Diesel, but Hours has Walker carry the entire movie on his well-built, incredible shoulders. Sigh!
Hours doesn’t have a very compelling story line. It is all about the lives of a man and his new-born daughter as it hangs in balance between life and death as the legendary Hurricane Katrina descends upon New Orleans.
Nolan’s (Paul Walker) wife Abigail (Génesis RodrÃguez) goes into labour five weeks early and he manages to rush her to the hospital just before the storm hits. She dies at childbirth leaving Nolan with his barely-a-few-hours-old daughter. But the trouble is just pilling up the baby must be fed by IV and placed on ventilator for the next 48 hours to survive. And then Katrina hits.
Hours is about Nolan struggling to keep his daughter alive while trying to deal with the blow of his wife’s death. Like Sandra Bullock in Gravity and Tom Hanks in Cast Away, Nolan finds ingenious and a heart-wrenching way to count the hours keeping his daughter alive. He tells her stories of her mother, shows her pictures and her rings placing them on top the ventilator, one by one, as he flits in between cranking the battery up as power backup fails in the hospital.
Walker makes the hours count. He pushes his mind and body to keep functioning against odds to keep his child alive for that is the only thing that matters. Seeing Walker fill up the screen like he does for Hours, punches a hole in you. It did to me.
Don’t watch Hours because you have nothing else to watch this week -watch it because Walker is brilliant in this movie. And that’s a promise. RIP Paul Walker.
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