The Zero Hour

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Audience Member Venezuelan action film is fast-paced and gritty. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/27/23 Full Review nicolas b To be honest I just watched it, because the main actors "name" is "Zapata 666", I mean how cool is that? The movie itself features some solid action and an interesting premise. Nothing special but good entertainment. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 03/30/23 Full Review Frances H Incredibly gripping story with great plot twists that keep you on the edge of your seat throughout the whole movie with clenched teeth tension that never lets up. Between this film and City of God, Venezuelan movies are really coming into their own. Rated 4.5/5 Stars •  Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 07/02/13 Full Review ashley h The Zero Hour is a disappointing film. It is about a hit man that takes over a hospital and holds the staff hostage to save his girlfriend's life. Zapata 666 and Amanda Key give terrible performances. The script is badly written. Diego Velasco did a horrible job directing this movie. I was not impressed with this motion picture. Rated 1.5/5 Stars •  Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member Action, farcical comedy, politically conscious drama and melodramatic tragedy join forces in Diego Velasco's hyperactive film "La hora cero". The story is set during 1996 at the time of "the zero hour," the strike of government employed doctors during which nobody who couldn't afford private care had to go without medical treatment. The government is uncaring as the situation only affects the inconvenient people living in embarassing poverty. A sequence of events kick starts with a hectic sequence where a pregnant woman in a slum is carried by Parca, a feared thug and hitman. The woman is bleeding to death from a gunshot wound. With his gang Parca hijacks a doctor from a local public clinic and a cab and drives it to a hospital. The gang invades the hospital, takes the staff and patients hostage and demands treatment for the dying woman who already gave birth in the cab. A media circus ensues. Velasco shows tremendous directorial talents with this feature. He tells the story in innovative and effective ways. Music is used smartly, the cinematography is fresh and beautiful. But the script is somewhat less perfect. The mix of many different genres results in disorienting shifts in tone that don't quite work. "La hora cero" comes very close to being a dynamic and colorful movie loaded with content, but instead of a mosaic that works as a whole we end up with a mix of different elements, some good, some less so, that don't quite fit together. It has hart and it has brain, but even with its vast achievements the movie communicates in cacophony of voices that makes it difficult to get a solid grip of what's been conveyed. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/01/23 Full Review Audience Member Muy entretenida, violenta pero con contenido Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/15/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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