Solemplex To me, this movie is perfection.

Dotbankey A lot of fun.

Portia Hilton Blistering performances.

Matho The biggest problem with this movie is it’s a little better than you think it might be, which somehow makes it worse. As in, it takes itself a bit too seriously, which makes most of the movie feel kind of dull.

mikevonbach This was a bit of fun to watch, nothing special, like an above average sci-fi channel flick, but fun to watch nonetheless. Hasn't been a box office hit or getting much in the way of good reviews, but if basic alien invasion is your cup of tea, you will probably enjoy it too. I liked the aliens, not your usual lot, and the Moscow sets. The cast gave decent performances as well. I would have liked to see more of the invaders and would have liked a few more battle scenes, and could have enjoyed it just as well without the 3D effects. All things considered, I will add it to my collection when it's available on disc. Catch this during a matinée if you must, but you'll probably like it a whole lot more on a theater's big screen than waiting for HBO.

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

john-264-811175 A very clever take on the alien invasion theme, The Darkest Hour has both the clichés of most alien films and many new and innovative twists. The electric energy beasts were especially haunting. The story development was perfect, keeping viewers on their seats for almost the entire film. Of course we have to accept the characters doing stupid things, like walking through the center of Red Square, but hey, we're here to be entertained and these elements are no less believable than the character situations we see in half the other fantasy/thriller/alien films we watch. The Darkest Hour far surpasses so many other films in this genre in just the thrill factor. Of course production quality was below the standards of blockbuster Hollywood, but in a way I'm grateful for that. It forces us to focus more on characters and the situations they are in. I really do not understand the low rating given by so many viewers. It almost seems some of them watched an entirely different film.

Jackson Booth-Millard I remember seeing this in the DVD rental store Blockbuster, probably one of the last entries before it shut down, I knew it was a sci-fi film but I didn't know the concept, clips certainly made it look worth trying, so I did. Basically Sean (Into the Wild's Emile Hirsch) and Ben (Max Minghella, director Anthony's son) are American software designers and entrepreneurs travelling to Moscow to sell their social networking/party locating software to investors, but they go out of business when their Swedish business partner Skyler (RoboCop's Joel Kinnaman) pulls a fast one. Natalie (Olivia Thirlby) and Anne (Rachael Taylor) are walking around and are overheard by Sean and Ben talking about their blog, they think they are cute and go to a nightclub, there Sean and Ben see Skyler and confront him, he mocks them, so they move on, flirt with the girls and have a good night. All of the sudden the lights go out, the population all over are surprised by the lights going on and off and mistake it for a natural phenomena, but then they realise the lights coming on in a travelling sequence are in fact invisible aliens, and any humans caught in their path dissolve in a flash of electric lights and explode like fragments of ash. The unseen aliens are using power supplies to annihilate mankind, the only way for them to be seen is in the darkness with the electrical current creating light and sparks, so the remaining five people in the club hide in the cellar for a good few days. Sean, Ben, Natalie, Anne and Skyler come out and are now on the run from the extra-terrestrial force, travelling only in the night time to stand a good chance of survival, but with the streets deserted and only remnants of victims and civilisation remaining they question if they are the only survivors left. In the end, after some interaction with the military forces, and trying to find a way to eliminate the threat of the aliens, the remaining characters do manage to defeat them with the power supply exposing them and destroying them with a specially designed weapon. Also starring Veronika Vernadskaya as Vika, Dato Bakhtadze as Sergei, Yuriy Kutsenko as Matvei and Artur Smolyaninov as Yuri. The cast are as good as you could expect, the story and events in the film are predictable, it is not the most gripping film and I agree with critics lacks imagination, but you are drawn in I suppose by the really good special effects that see the invisible creatures destroy humans with molecular disintegration, it is not such a terrible science-fiction horror thriller. Okay!