There's been a few good movies coming out of WA for a while now - this is one, an intense, testosterone driven look at the last few hours of the world. A meteor has hit and everyone is going to die so people are reacting in crazy ways - prayers, looting, random acts of sex, drugs and violence. Nathan Phillips just wants to get wasted even though his pretty girlfriend (Jessica De Gouw) wants to spend the last few hours together. It's a hell of an introduction, with the foot put on the throttle - and things get more intense when he rescues a young girl from being raped and decides to take her to her family.
There's not going to be much of a happy ending in this movie, but it gets points for not whimping out - Phillips discovering his sister and hubby have killed their kids and then themselves, a neighbour being hacked to death on the street, the little girl decides to stay with her dead family rather than Phillips.
It's a very blokey bloke look at the end of the world - drugs, partying, speeding cars, heroically saving little girls, not wanting to commit to your girlfriend, avoiding psycho exes, Russian roulette, reluctantly seeing your mother.
Nathan Phillips gives a strong performance as does Angourie Rice as the girl; there are good cameos by Dan Henshal, Sarah Snook, Lynette Curran and Jess DeGouw. It's beautifully shot and scored; the script could have done maybe with more of a story instead of being a collection of scenes, but they are strong scenes.
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