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- 03:00 PM, Mar 29
this Katrina-set drama isn't perfect, but it does show the "Fast & Furious" star willing to branch out into some artistic heavy liftingby Alonso Duralde [The Wrap ]
the movie is essentially a theater piece in which Nolan (Walker) is mostly alone on screen, making use of what he finds a la John McClane, but without the smart pacing or inventiveness of "Die Hard"by Kyle Smith [New York Post ]
most of the movie elicits tense empathy, which builds to a genuinely nerve-wracking sense of dreadby Elizabeth Weitzman [NY Daily News ]
Hurricane Katrina has already been pretty thoroughly mined for documentaries and fictional stories, but "Hours" holds your interest nonethelessby Neil Genzlinger [NY Times ]
even an action packed finale can't rescue this dramatically thin exercise in one-man showmanship. At 96 minutes, "Hours" only seems like it's hours longer than thatby Roger Moore [Movie Nation ]