Synopsis
In Moscow, five young people lead the charge against an alien race which has attacked Earth via our power supply.
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Cast
- Emile HirschSean
- Rachael TaylorAnne
- Olivia ThirlbyNatalie
- Joel KinnamanSkyler
- Max MinghellaBen
- Veronika OzerovaVika
- Dato BakhtadzeSergei
- Gosha KutsenkoMatvei
- Nikolay EfremovSasha
- Georgiy GromovBoris
Recommendations
- 50
Variety
The Darkest Hour turns out to be a modestly inventive and involving variation on a standard-issue sci-fi doomsday scenario. - 40
Los Angeles Times
Capable and compelling performers like Hirsch and Thirlby seem left to their own devices to make some connection with the material. The idea of semi-invisible aliens, an unseen enemy, should mean the film has a lingering sense of paranoid abstraction (not unlike "Right at Your Door"), but Darkest Hour never gets beyond rote efficiency. - 33
Entertainment Weekly
You should be rooting for the humans, but you might as well be rooting for the blobs. Most likely, though, you'll just be rooting for the credits. - 30
The Hollywood Reporter
An alien invasion flick that evidently expects dramatic shots of a depopulated Red Square to make up for a flatlining screenplay and the absence of even a single compelling character. - 25
Boston Globe
Once upon a time, you'd go to see a grade-C genre movie like this willing to trade consistency and artfulness for a few stray thrills or oddball charm. But Darkest Hour doesn't have even as much character as those Discover commercials. - 20
The New York Times
Really, how slovenly is it to use invisible aliens? If you're going to tease us with nothing but pinwheels of light for three-quarters of the film, you'd better have one heck of a reveal up your sleeve. - 20
Austin Chronicle
This is exactly the sort of film I wasn't expecting from either Gorak or his producers. In many too-obvious ways this is just a formulaic riff on Spielberg's "War of the Worlds." - 10
Boxoffice Magazine
The Darkest Hour isn't just a dark horse contender for the year's biggest joke, it's the darkest.
