The Darkest Hour is a 2011 fiction science fiction film directed by Chris Gorak and produced by Timur Bekmambetov. It describes an alien invasion. The stars of Emile Hirsch, Max Minghella, Olivia Thirlby, Joel Kinnaman and Rachael Taylor, as a group of people caught in the invasion. The film was released on December 25, 2011 in the United States.
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Plot
Americans Ben and Sean (Max Minghella and Emile Hirsch) travel to Moscow to sell their social network location search software. As they approach the airport, their plane circuit is short due to an electric storm but regains power. Upon arrival, they find their Swedish business partner, Skyler (Joel Kinnaman), has betrayed them and has made a deal with Russia, using a mock application. They went to a nightclub and met Natalie (Olivia Thirlby), an American, and her Australian friend Anne (Rachael Taylor). The lights are off at the club and everyone goes out. There, they witnessed what appeared to be an aurora. Light bulbs fall from the sky and then fade away. When a policeman investigates he is destroyed, kills him instantly. Invisible entities start hunting and killing people, making them panic.
Ben, Sean, Natalie, Anne, and now Skyler hiding in the clubhouse for seven days. With most of their food gone, the group plans to go to the American Embassy. They found a city full of charred cars and charcoal but empty of people, except for a wary old lady who warned them about "ghosts". Ben and Sean are looking for supplies in a police car near Red Square while others are hiding in the nearby GUM department store shopping mall. When they were looking for a car, the dog barked to find and face the aliens, but was killed. Ben and Sean managed to hide under the car as the aliens moved closer, causing the car's lights and sirens to glow. Alien moves and people run to the mall. Sean realizes that light bulbs and other technologies give aliens away. The group took refuge in one of the mall stores. Sean and Natalie go looking for clothes and almost meet the aliens who can not see them through the glass wall. Sean's theory that aliens can only see their electrical charge, but not through glass or other insulators.
The group found the American Embassy annihilated and lifeless. All but Skyler went to the roof to get an aerial view. They found a notebook that told them that the invasion was around the world. They also found a radio that broadcast messages in Russian, and heard gunshots. Ben and Sean go out to help Skyler, but he's killed. The others saw the light in the nearest apartment tower and went to investigate, carrying the radio they found. They find a young woman named Vika and a man named Sergei, an electrical engineer. Sergei has made his apartment into a giant Faraday enclosure that hides everyone from aliens. He also developed a microwave rifle that weakens the field of alien power, so that it can actually be seen and killed. Vika and Sergei translate the message, saying that the K-152 Nerpa nuclear submarine is waiting on the Moscow River to bring survivors to safety.
When Sergei showed people microwave devices, Vika, Natalie, and Anne went to another apartment to collect supplies for a submarine trip. The aliens feel them outside Faraday's cage and chase; Anne hesitantly follows Vika and goes the other way, causing Natalie to follow her back inside. When they reached the apartment, Natalie could not close the door and the aliens went inside. Sergei shoots the alien with his weapon and finds that he is just stunned. The aliens killed Sergei while the others came out with a fire escape. Anne hesitated and was killed while trying to escape. Natalie burns the apartment as they come down and meets up with Vika.
They met with a Russian police team with an improvised armor led by Boris who managed to injure aliens with conventional weapons. Sean collects alien body pieces. The little police band could also build another Faraday enclosure in the State Library of Russia. Boris and his men finally agreed to help the four remaining to get to the submarine. Police believe that aliens are mining strips for conductive metals because giant light columns can be seen drilling across Moscow. As they move through the subway, the aliens find them and they run away on the tracks. Vika hides behind a pillar, unable to join the others without being seen. Ben helped him up on the tracks, but was killed by aliens.
The survivors reached the helpless patrol boat in the river and drifted downstream to the waiting submarine. The boat approached the submarine but ran aground. As they try to push freely, a new ray of light destroys a large apartment building right next to the river, causing the ship to reverse. Sean and the police swim towards the submarine but upon reaching it finds Natalie missing. They saw a flare fired from Natalie's flare gun at the railway and bus stations near the river. Sean is determined to get him, perhaps losing his chance to escape. Police agree to help her save her. The Russian submarine crew, having expressed doubts about the rescue, helped by building another microwave gun with a stronger battery.
After the team managed to destroy the aliens, Sean found Natalie on the bus while police and Vika destroyed the other three aliens using microwave and water rifles. When Sean gets off the bus with Natalie, the aliens get on the boat, lock the door, and send the bus that runs around the bus yard. This grabbed Natalie's leg, but Sean destroyed the alien shield with a microwave rifle. He then discovers the weakness of the aliens when he throws a piece of the wounded aliens he has accumulated before, and it destroys unarmed aliens. Both stopped the bus and avoided the collision.
Upon returning to the submarine, the police team decides to stay and fight for the city, and Boris tells them that now the war has started. Sean, Natalie, and Vika plan to spread what they learn about aliens - microwave rifles and their vulnerability to other dead alien pieces - to the rest of the world. Sean and Natalie, the only survivors of the original group along with Vika, almost shared a kiss on the submarine. In the pre-credit scene, when the submarine sailed through the Caspian Sea, they learned that the survivors in Paris had succeeded in destroying the foreign mining tower.
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Cast
Production
The Darkest Hour directed by Chris Gorak and produced by Timur Bekmambetov. While most of the films about the alien invasion are centered in the United States or have an international scale, Bekmambetov's involvement ensures the premise of becoming an alien invasion from a Russian perspective.
With a production budget of $ 34.8 million, filming with 3D cameras began in Moscow on July 18, 2010. Production uses the resources of the Russian company, Bazelev, owned by Bekmambetov.
Filming is temporarily suspended three weeks later due to a 2010 Russian forest fire affecting the city and its surroundings with their smog. In September 2010, filming has resumed. In April 2011 the release date was changed to December 25 for shooting the conflict in Russia.
Release
The Darkest Hour was released on December 25, 2011, in the US in 2D, 3D and RealD 3D. The DVD release date is April 10, 2012, by Summit Entertainment. In the UK, it was released theatrically on January 13th and on DVD on May 21st.
Reception
Rotten Tomatoes scored 12% based on reviews from 57 critics.
The Hollywood Reporter criticized the film for having "flat scenarios and the absence of even an interesting character", and The New York Times writes that it has "a miserable failure of the imagination ". Writing for Slant Magazine, Budd Wilkins calls it "a faded sci-fi 3D sci-fi" and writes, "Unusually structured, Jon Spaihts's paralyzed script knows there is no discovery of the narration it dislikes and , what's worse, the exposure bursts within the first 10 minutes, brings together a single quintet of cardboard clipping leads. "Joe Leydon from Variety calls it a" simple inventive variation and involves on a standard fiction-issue doomsday scenario ".
References
External links
- Dark Watches on IMDb
- Dark Watches at AllMovie
- Dark Watch in Box Office Mojo
- Dark Watches in Metacritic
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