Review of Hours (2013) by Thomas W — 16 Jan 2014

At a nearly-abandoned and panic-stricken New Orleans hospital on August 29, 2005, Abigail (Genesis Rodriguez - Man on a Ledge) gives birth to a premature baby girl before dying herself because of complications the hospital is unable to foresee and prevent due to emergency evacuations preceding Hurricane Katrina.

When the hospital is ordered to evacuate, the father (the late Paul Walker) is informed that the mother of his child passed on because the facility lacked resources to prevent her from dying ... and while the child survived the birth it most likely would not survive a transport because the baby's premature state now requires a breathing machine.

The desperate father's only hope is to remain at the baby's side, hand-pumping the non-responsive heart in hopes that Katrina is more hype than anything else and the hospital staff will return within hours after abandoning the facility with a new generator that will help keep the baby alive.

Only ... nobody anticipates the frantic hysteria that sweeps across the New Orleans basin just as nobody could predict the nightmare scenarios the sinking city found itself in on those late summer days in 2005.

Once one line is crossed, what else will Nolan do to ensure that the one he loves most will survive? Paul Walker still has a few more films that will be released after this one so this less-than-spectacular film will not be his final one.