The Darkest Hour follows five young people who find themselves stranded in Moscow, fighting to lead the charge against an alien race who have attacked Earth via our power supply.
21 April 1982, Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]
20 May 1966, Tbilisi, Georgian SSR, USSR [now Republic of Georgia]
16 September 1985, Hampstead, London, England, UK
11 July 1984, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia
14 January 1986, USSR
13 March 1985, Palms, California, USA
12 October 1944
1962, Moscow, Russian SFSR, USSR [now Russia]
25 November 1979, Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden
29 January 1977, Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]
27 October 1983, Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]
16 August 1991, Moscow, Russian SFSR, USSR [now Russia]
20 May 1967, Zaporozhye, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Zaporizhia, Ukraine]
6 October 1986, New York City, New York, USA
7 May 1995, Moscow, Russia
December 31, 2012
Did Olivia Thirlby and Emile Hirsch make this so they could visit Russia on somebody else's dime?
December 28, 2011
Not since Mark Wahlberg trembled in fear beside a menacing houseplant in The Happening has a film tried to provoke terror with such an unlikely object of menace.
December 27, 2011
If these dimwits represent the hope of humanity, bring on the alien overlords.
January 10, 2012
There's literally nothing here that works: the SFX are limp, the acting is dire and director Chris Gorak seems to be fighting a losing battle with the concept of narrative logic.
December 27, 2011
"Darkest Hour'' doesn't have even as much character as those Discover commercials.
April 18, 2012
Once again it's time for the end of the world. But, "The Darkest Hour" fails to see the light and we're stuck with yet another mediocre sci-fi movie.
April 03, 2012
Uninspiring and insipid, this contemporary take on the zombie genre sees a group of gorgeous twenty somethings trapped in Moscow trying desperately to get away from an endless attack launched by nasty id-like blobs of energy.
April 18, 2012
It's true mindless trash, but it's fun mindless trash... I'm not ashamed to say I would watch a sequel.
August 22, 2012
Just dumb enough to feel like the product of intelligent grown ups who wanted to make something they'd have dug as widdle kids.
March 08, 2012
So bad that Russian and American relations may break down and reignite the Cold War.
December 28, 2011
It's clear from early on that these characters are as indistinct and lazily rendered as the floating blobs chasing them.
December 27, 2011
What's the point of going all the way to Moscow if the shots you come back with end up looking like cheap green-screen process work?
