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The Quiet Hour

Dakota Blue Richards (Actor), Karl Davies (Actor), Stephanie Joalland (Director) Rated:

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IMDb4.7/10.0

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Humans are few and far between since Earth was invaded by extra-terrestrial machines that harvest the planet's resources and relentlessly kill its inhabitants. In a remote part of the countryside, where starved humans have become as dangerous as the alien machines in the sky, a feisty 19 year old girl, Sarah Connolly, sets out on a desperate attempt to repel a group of bandits and defend her farm, the remaining livestock, and the solar panels that keep them safe. If she doesn't succeed, she will lose her only source of food and shelter; but if she resists, she and her blind brother will be killed. If the mysterious intruder dressed like a soldier turns out to be a liar--then the enemy may already be in the house.

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Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ Unrated (Not Rated)
Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 0.7 x 7.5 x 5.4 inches; 2.72 Ounces
Item model number ‏ : ‎ 43471249
Director ‏ : ‎ Stephanie Joalland
Media Format ‏ : ‎ Dolby, Widescreen, AC-3, NTSC
Run time ‏ : ‎ 1 hour and 28 minutes
Release date ‏ : ‎ March 21, 2017
Actors ‏ : ‎ Dakota Blue Richards, Karl Davies, Jack McMullen, Brigitte Millar
Studio ‏ : ‎ Monarch Video
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B01NCT1UI2
Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1

Best Sellers Rank: #213,717 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
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Uncle Dave

It's not really a Sci-Fi movie

Reviewed in the United States on May 4, 2020

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Reading some of the reviews I had to think about why the ratings here, and on IMdb, are all-over-the-place. My best guess; Many reviewers are children (20-somethings). They were looking for a Sci-Fi, even shoot-em-up movie. After all, we see the heroine on the poster with a shotgun.

This is NOT that movie. This is a Sci-Fi 'backdrop' with a human psychological study built in.

Short synopsis: Aliens appeared before the movie started. They are mining Earth and the people are in the way. A young woman (23 years old) and her blind brother are hold-up in their UK country farm house. A stranger appears looking for food. More people (a family with grown sons) arrive not far behind 'hunting' the stranger.

The stranger says the "evil family" killed his wife and daughter and now they hunt him. The family says the stranger killed on of their suns and they want justice... WHO is a young woman and blind teenager to believe...??
The only real shooting is the resolution at the end... So, if you're looking for alien blasters, light sabers, and X-wing fighter... It ain't here!

Otherwise this IS a tense, thoughtful, insight in to who's lying and can you trust your fellow human when there are very few of us left?

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"Two quiet hours a day is all we have."

Reviewed in the United States on May 26, 2019

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The aliens part is really incidental, and doesn’t play a direct role. Aliens attacked earth, and devastated the planet, mining for minerals. Survivors have only 2 hours of safety per day when the aliens go back to their ships. The movie is tightly crafted, with daughter Sarah and blind brother Tom, alone in the farm house when a stranger, Jude, breaks in while they are out. Is he who he says he is, or is he a liar? But he is tracked down by other humans, who do not wish good things. That sets up the first suspense of the movie, and when Tom goes outside, and is captured, the second suspense setting. Will they survive? There is a certain authenticity to the movie, with Sarah having dirt under her fingernails, which would be expected for their setting. I appreciate details like that in a movie. This is not an aliens movie, nor a science fiction movie. More a suspense movie with the stakes being their lives. This isn’t full of CGI or other tricks. It is all about their character and decisions they make.

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Gregory Bennett

Very good production values in low-budget British quasi-SF film

Reviewed in the United States on September 6, 2018

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Even with its tiny cast and near-zero special effects, "Quiet Hour" manages to manages to convey tense character-oriented drama that is more typical of horror films than alien invasion stories.

It's not really science fiction. Despite the message in the advertising, we never see the aliens other than cloudy things in the sky and a few cut-outs of spaceship thingies, and they have essentially no role in the on-going plot. They are in the story to provide a vague background, their only role to put the characters into a strange survival situation. They arrive, perform that one role, and then leave, all without any explanation at all.

Dakota Blue Richards (yes, that's her real name; they are English but her mother named for the Indian tribe and the color) delivers a quite convincing performance as the main character, Sarah, a girl in her late teens who is taking care of her blinded brother, Tom, after burying their father.

The story falters at the end, where there apparently was supposed to be a great reveal that the fellow she trusted, the oddly-named Jude, was lying to her about what happened to his wife and daughter; however, the logic falls apart. The source of the information is a woman whom we know participated in terrorizing Sarah and her brother, pursued and shot Jude, twice, was attempting to kill Sarah and Tom to steal their farm, deluded herself about her rapist husband, did kill Jude, and was a cannibal; and then incongruously committed suicide by allowing the aliens to zap her--not the most credible source of information.

Despite the weak plot line, no development of the aliens, and lack of an ending, the movie does deliver an interesting story. Dialog and acting are excellent and cinematography is as good as it gets for the available subject matter; over all, a rather enjoyable movie.

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Carlos

Intelligent

Reviewed in the United States on October 2, 2018

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Interesting premise, good characterizations, well written, fine acting. The plot centers around people, their reactions to the situation and interactions with each other, making decisions about who to trust and how to behave in the face of a life-changing predicament. This is not a shoot-em-up with scary monsters; although the appearance of the patrol ships IS scary, some of the humans are more so. The aliens are never shown, and in the end lots of questions are left unanswered, as in real life. If you're looking for cool CGI effects and such, this is not your movie; this is a movie about people.

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Mike

Interesting but not really scifi

Reviewed in the United States on August 11, 2020

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Aliens appear, kill everyone, and then the survivors fight among themselves, with the alien presence used as an occasional plot device. Pretty good special effects, what few there are, good acting and pretty good story (read: there aren't too many plot holes). Disbelief willingly suspended. There is some brief blood and gore so the squeamish might want to look elsewhere.

I found it to be unremarkable and slightly boring. Give it a look, who knows, maybe you'll like it more than me.

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Andrea Trimble

Good drama but no alien action at all.

Reviewed in the United States on June 28, 2017

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This was a good movie and the drama kept me interested. This is a drama of human to human survival, together and against each other. Its an alien occupation of planet earth from by aliens that you never see. No alien action whatsoever. I would've liked to have see an alien or two but they were busy mining the planet for resources. No time for puny humans except to swat them with lasers every now and then, from afar. Still, it was good to see Dakota Blue Richards all grown up. I had long ago given up on the possibility of a Golden Compass 2, which I suspect was too expensive to make given all of the big names in the first movie.

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Maya_Bree

Decent Movie

Reviewed in the United States on April 29, 2020

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Over all for being probably a low budget film was pretty good having what I think 8 total actors. Suspenseful but not over the top gory and no alian action other then shots of ships.

It is a good one time watch movie. If my husband wanted to watch it I'd watch it with him. I just know what happens which would ruin it.

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