Darkest Hour

Jmac:

'The Darkest Hour', while corrupted by annoying characters like Skylar and whomever the blond Australian was, was actually a pretty good human survival movie.

Set in Moscow, ‘wave energy’ aliens invade Earth for its natural resources, just like every other aliens invading Earth movie to date. The difference here is that instead of being able to see the alien horde that overruns our borders; 'The Darkest Hour' aliens are invisible except when in contact with an electronic device which adds a small level of suspense to the movie. In the end it is set up for what could have been a decent squeal for those among us that like post-apocalyptic alien invasion movies, where Earth understands its enemy and starts to fight back, (think Independence Day 2), but the movie didn't make enough in the box office to warrant another film.

That said I give it a 2.7 light guns out of 5 and what we should all be taking away from it is American-Russian cooperation, which should be applied to an American-Euro-Russian missile defense shield...... which coincidentally would have helped in this movie.

I know its a short post but Im really just blowing through old Facebook movie reviews, and there really is not much more to say.