The Darkest Hour

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Alien Invasion Action Adventure Horror Sci-Fi Thriller

A Moscou, cinq jeunes gens mènent la charge contre une race étrangère qui a attaqué la Terre en passant par les réseaux électriques.A Moscou, cinq jeunes gens mènent la charge contre une race étrangère qui a attaqué la Terre en passant par les réseaux électriques.A Moscou, cinq jeunes gens mènent la charge contre une race étrangère qui a attaqué la Terre en passant par les réseaux électriques.

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Récompenses
- 1 nomination au total

Sasha
(as Nikolai Efremov)

Georgiy Gromov

Boris
(as Georgy Gromov)

Artur Smolyaninov

Yuri
(as Arthur Smoljaninov)

Anna Rudakova

Tess
(as Anna Roudakova)

Pyotr Fyodorov

Anton Batkin
(as Petr Fedorov)

Ivan Gromov

Bartender No. 1

Aleksandr Chernykh

Bartender No. 2
(as Alexsandr Chernyh)

Oleg Poddubnyy

First Policeman
(as Oleg Poddubny)

Vasiliy Fursenko

Second Policeman
(as Vasja Fursenko)

Ilya Ivanov

Drunk Russian No. 1

Histoire

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Anecdotes
The involvement of Timur Bekmambetov as producer afforded the production the opportunity of using Russia as a backdrop instead of the usual USA locations. Bekmambetov owns a film production company in Moscow called Bazelevs where most of the movie was made.

Gaffes
When the characters have to jump off the boat into the river, Sean and Natalie both jump in together holding hands. All the characters except Natalie emerge together and climb aboard the submarine. Somehow Natalie has managed to end up in the city, clearly more than a few kilometers away.

She probably swam there, and it wasn't as far as a few kilometers.

Citations
Skyler: How'd you come up with that?
Sean: I don't know. Shark Week.

Crédits fous
All the opening credits briefly appear in Russian before translated into English.

Connexions
Edited into The Darkest Hour: Deleted and Extended Scenes (2012)

Bandes originales
MOCKBA (Moscow)
Written by Igor Pustelnik
Performed by Marselle

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6/10

A fun alien invasion film without much pretentiousness

While maybe not much better than what the ratings and reviews say, at the very least 'The Darkest Hour' has the fun factor going for it. There is not much for a plot: your typical alien invasion, where a group of survivors have to try and survive the attack while in Moscow.

Wait, Moscow?

One of the things I liked here was that there IS originality. Instead of another American city, or even Tokyo/London, this time around we watch Moscow under attack. Instead of having to see the characters running and hiding around the same New York for the nth time, we are presented an 'unknown' scenario that has a lot of charm going for it.

Another plus is the aliens themselves. Not your typical armor-wearing soldiers or 'greys', but in here they have a very original design (bodyless masses of light). It is sad to hear the clichèd excuse for their invasion, but they are very interesting to see.

Despite these flairs of originality, overall the film suffers from the typical B-movie sci-fi problems. The blandness of the cast and some logic-defying situations/developments (every Russian they meet speak perfect English, for example) are downsides, but the straight-forward plot, lack of an overly pretentious message and non-boring development more than compensate.

Overall, this is far from a great film but it is a fun straight-forward B-movie with some welcome flashes of originality. It more than succeeds on entertaining, as long as you don't over-blow your expectations.