Despite poor reviews, we love our sci-fi, and went to see 'Darkest Hour' for our own decision on the matter. This movie accomplished exactly what it intended to do - throw a new spin on the well-worn alien invasion premise,while keeping the audience in suspense as to what the monsters look like for as long as possible so that you are hopefully drawn to empathize and possibly even relate to the main characterrs. While I didn't necessarily relate to the somewhat shallow characters, I did find myself right along side of them as they explored their newly devestated world, and I had to say I respect the fact that the director played no favorites as to who got deep-fried along the way. All said, as with most sci-fi flicks, it helps to have a healthy if not over-active imagination in order to truly appreciate this genre, and a desire to live vicariously through the exteme circumstances laid before you in the wonderful world of "What If?" Go see for yourself, I think you'll be glad you did.

The first 10 minutes held promise of some kind of enjoyable movie experience, but from then on it dragged on for a variety of reasons, or should I say lack of reasons. First, the special effects were pretty much a one-trick pony. They kept repeating the same visual effects as if we were too stupid to catch them the first time. How many people/animals do we need to see zapped into oblivion in the exact same way before it's time to move onto something new? And where were the 3D effects we paid to see? Second, the plot was extremely weak, and so unbelievable that it was laughable. It's almost like they were trying to write a Saturday Night Live spoof of horror sci-fi films but then said, hey, let's just call it a real movie and see if anyone actually takes it seriously. It has a tediously slow moving, boring and pointless story line with an almost zero believability factor. The Christmas day release was a cruel joke.

The tweets about the movie are crazy, two people at the end of the movie under PTSD conditions developed a mutual bond after seeing their two best friends killed. How the heck does that make love a safe haven. Such reviews are a stupid disservice. I thought and think the movie got crappy reviews, I thought the concept was original and the movie played out well. For a short movie you understood the main characters relationships and motivation. The best part, the end of the movie left you with hope for the survivors

The graphics weren't that great, but as the movie develops it gets more interesting. Good for those as perhaps a sci-fi and survival cult movie. Interesting take on the city of Moscow as well.

I came into this movie thinking it'd be an awesome alien movie...I was very wrong and I love almost all alien movies. They had an awesome premise, decent actors and good effects. Yet the acting was very bad for the most part. Emile could've done a much better job compared to what he's done in other movies and you would've thought that blonde chick from Transformers and Shutter would've been great but if anything she was the worst character/actress. The movie tried to have an emotional appeal throughout that it failed at in my opinion as well. As for the dialogue...the film was littered with cliche lines that were delivered as if they were having a casual conversation. The way the group of survivors went about "surviving" was so over the top bad that I couldn't help but feel that they all deserve to die solely because of how stupid they reacted to an event like this to which I felt that they only did a handful of correct actions. Im being nice saying what I did, but dont waste yer cash!