Movie Review - "The Darkest Hour" 12/25/2011

'ello there!  It has been a while since I reviewed a movie for ya but here is one!  Straight from 2011 and with a theme kinda like this weekend (but not quite like the "Mayan Apocalypse" thing):  "The Darkest Hour", released on December 25, 2011.

0/5 – No value whatsoever. Absolute waste of time.

1/5 – Barely worth any time.

2/5 – Pathetic but has a bit of something to hold the attention a little.

3/5 – Somewhat kept the attention but could definitely have used more.

4/5 – Good, but not awe-strikingly amazing. Could have maybe used a bit more to the movie.

5/5 – Go see it! Wonderful movie all around – characters, music, theme, storyline, etc.

Let's make this short and sweet, with spoilers a-plenty:
Romance?  A bit but it is more of a "I am fond of you because you are the opposite gender than me and you have survived too" kind of thing, though two of the characters almost kissed at the end.

Invasion - the aliens come, wrapped in a force field made of energy (somehow) and start killing the humans.  We've all seen this before but this time it was like "woah, we can't see them and they're attacking us and turning us to dust" [oh, right! The dust thing was also in "War of the Worlds" with Cruise!  Original.....].  Do the humans try finding a way to survive and return fire?  Of course.  And the humans somehow, as always, start finding out the aliens' weakness and start killing them off {to have humankind survive and to protect the planet from the alien mines}.

Music - I didn't notice much.

Horror - It is scary to have an invisible hunter coming after you but it wasn't that scary at all.  Cheesy scary, if anything.

Creativity - I must say that it is creative that they made the aliens see humans according to their bio-electrical currents instead of their heat.  I thought that the alien's view was a heat reader but it wasn't because the humans managed to slide under a cop car at one point and hide from the alien.  Also, it was creative for the humans to use cell phones and light bulbs to recognize where the aliens were (since they gave off a signal that turned on electronics and when they were not nearby, everything was dead electrically).

DID NOT GIVE A GOOD DESCRIPTION OR VIEW OF THE ALIENS!  Invisible is scary but they should have shown what they really are, because sometimes that is even more frightening.  It didn't give the aliens any character aside the fact that they just wanted to mine the earth!

Good movie but rather disappointing overall.  Even the deaths of 3 characters did not phase me because the characters were not properly displayed and developed beforehand.




If you want to take your time to see another alien invasion movie [that can NO WHERE CLOSE compare to "Alien", "Independence Day", or "War of the Worlds"], see this.  Otherwise, save your time and money by skipping this.




2/5 - Little character development; a bit of interest with the alien force field making them invisible and the alien's anatomy.  Not really worth it.