Review #11 - The Darkest Hour

The Darkest Hour Review

In the city of Moscow, a travelling spot for all ages, 5 unknowingly young people find themselves in the middle of an alien invasion via power supply.

 After being asked to see this film twice and my original thoughts of the trailers gave me the opinion of “this film will suck” simply by what bits of story they had shown. The trailer did not justice for the story yet did the best job at keeping the as much acting out as possible.
 With actors and actresses such as Max Minghella –  starred in “The Social Networking”, Rachael Taylor who starred in Transformers and the only other name mentioning Joel Kinnaman who recently was in “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” and series “The Killing”. One would think of acting that would be worth watching whereas in a cinema room of – about- 20 people and people laughing at bits that were not meant to be funny in any way obviously meant it simply wasn’t good enough.

Chris Gorak, director, known for various films including “Fight Club” has done a poor job with casting this film. As I watched the credits it came to no surprise – with the film being set in Moscow – that the cast were mainly Russian. I can’t help but have the feeling that if the film had a team of Americans behind the scenes it may have been better – opinion.

 After sitting through the hour and a bit film I can say that it was not the story that let it down – the idea was good but fell short on the acting therefore I feel the movie was not worth the money to see it in cinema. With this said the ending has left an opening for a sequel which with a bit of thought could be a lot better although it will unlikely get a sequel any time soon.
 There is not much I can write about this other than if your Cinema Unlimited go and see it when you get the chance and make your own opinion but if you’re paying the standard ticket price then it is not worth it.

I rate this 1.5*