Variety
Skirts perilously close to silliness on more than one occasion, but it's pulled back from the brink more often than not by the disarming sincerity of its performances. That helps a lot.
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The Darkest Hour (2012)
Sci-fi thriller about a group of young Americans visiting Russia when invisible extraterrestrials invade earth. Stars Olivia Thirlby (The Wackness), Emile Hirsch (Into the Wild) and Rachael Taylor (Grey's Anatomy).
Stranded in a desolate Moscow, the five yanks are forced into the seemingly impossible task of surviving and escaping the onslaught brought on by the energy-absorbing creatures. Produced by Russian filmmaker Timur Brekmambetov (Night Watch, Wanted), the film promises to differentiate itself from other alien invasion movies by showing the attacks and responses from a Russian perspective.
2011Rating: M, Science fiction themes and violence88 minsUSA
ActionHorrorScience FictionThriller
- Director:
- Chris Gorak ('Right at Your Door')
- Writer:
- Jon SpaihtsLeslie BohemM.T. Ahern
- Cast:
- Olivia ThirlbyEmile HirschRachael TaylorMax MinghellaJoel KinnamanDato Bakhtadze
The Darkest Hour (2012) / Reviews
Entertainment Weekly
When the script switches genres, exchanging survival horror for resistance fighting, it loses whatever momentum it had.
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Empire Magazine
One day this will turn up on a cheap TV channel late at night and you will be drunk/over-tired and it will be a blast.
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