The Darkest Hour
The Darkest Hour
PG-13 | 25 December 2011 (USA)
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In Moscow, five young people lead the charge against an alien race which has attacked Earth via our power supply.

Reviews
SunnyHello Nice effects though.
Ceticultsot Beautiful, moving film.
Hadrina The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful
Ariella Broughton It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.
Michael Ledo An alien vs. earth film that doesn't take place in L. A. Two software developers go to Moscow to present their software only to discover the Russians already have an exact copy. Unfortunately the beginning and their talents don't factor later into the film. They meet a couple of other Americans at a nightclub and when it looks like they are going to score aliens attack the planet (story of my life).These are not ordinary aliens. They are mostly invisible and like Predator seem to hunt by infrared. They kill humans and barking dogs using some kind of microwave beam that causes living things to explode (the cool part). Our focus group of 5 young adults hide in a large storage closet that has food.Now what? Do you A) stay put until all the food is gone, then maybe venture out to get more food, hoping that the aliens have killed enough humans. And if captured all they would want to do is probe you?or B) Try to find the US embassy so they can get you back home. Personally I would go with "A" because I know for a fact the US embassy does not have contingency plans for an alien invasion. Perhaps they need to advertise that more.** mid point Plot SPOILER? but not ending**Our group chose option "B". Later they discover the aliens can be killed with a "Ghost Buster" looking weapon and there is a Russian sub in the river awaiting survivors...but not for long. They meet people along the way. They gain a few and lose a few.To be honest I got a bit bored during the alien hide and seek part. There were no monsters to see, so they saved a ton of money on make-up and special effects. I didn't feel much intensity. The acting was okay considering the lack of a script. They needed to add a little humor, maybe a love scene with an "exploding" ending. Asylum dull.2 f-bombs. No sex, or nudity. Some hip-hop song lyrics were suggestive.
kev0131 This movie is atrocious. I'm trying to think of a worst alien movie but I cant. If the makers of this made it any worse it would be humorous like Sharknado which is much better. What were Emile Hirsch and Olivia Thirlby smoking to sign up for this? I downloaded this thinking it was the new movie Darkest hour with Gary Oldman but soon realised I made a huge mistake. The first 10 minutes looked promising but omg is all i can say. I had to fast forward most of it even though its less than 90 mins long because it was unbelievably boring and a load of nonsense. None of the science about electromagnetism or whatever in it made sense. The Russian fighters wearing chains and wires for whatever reason was ridiculous. I cared nothing for the characters, i wished they would all be killed off at the same time as soon as the aliens landed. Its not even worth going through whats wrong with this low budget garbage.
King See For me, its beyond understanding why some people rate such low that it is the invlovement of some sort of hatred is apparent. I watched this film and here is my opinion:Main Idea: 7/10 - not so real but a wonderful and interesting twist.Cinematography: 7/10 - beautiful, and moreover, new places other than we aleady know in a bunch of movies.Acting: 8/10 - perfect character building and never let down expectation.Special effects: 8/10 - amazingDialogue: 6/10 - OKSuspense / Thrill: 7/10 - yeah stick with the edge of seat kinda thing. I rated this film 7/10 as a whole. It is a good movie
brandileewilliams Don't get me wrong, the story line was very interesting and something you don't see with every apocalyptic movie. I went into this movie with high expectations set from watching the trailer, only to be somewhat disappointed halfway through.The monsters/aliens whatever you want to call them are extremely intimidating at first, but only in the beginning can you actually feel any sort of terror from these things. Once they are revealed behind their invisible shield, it's almost laughable to see such a bad cgi with the faces. You would think that a movie with such great quality when portraying death scenes would spend a little more time on the aliens themselves.The actors felt too fake, and I found myself scoffing at how many of the main 'group' we see die only because it was so expected.The movie was okay, but I'm not going to bring it down completely because of a few minor things that could of helped it in the long run.I would still watch this movie again, however, I would warn people that the 'hype' from the trailer is not at all like the movie.