Sci-fi thriller which beggars belief it had $30 million spent on it. The idea of an invisible extraterrestrial enemy is a good one but the effects don't convince and the tension is non-existent. Strange really, as the director did a fair job building an atmosphere in his debut film RIGHT AT YOUR DOOR.

I applaud them trying to make something this silly. It just backfired horribly. I'm sure they wish they'd scaled it down into a low-budget release and I think it would've been treated kinder by the critics. This had no place being released on the big screen frankly.

I can't even begin to explain how bad this film is. It's so bad. It takes a perfectly good genre, squeezes the worst elements from it and combines it in to a complete travesty. It really is a sorry excuse for a film and it's sad to say, because you can tell a bit of thought went in to this. Unfortunately, it doesn't work at all. The acting is atrocious, the script is dire and the effects are utterly appalling. The story is poor and the characters are unthinkably stupid and unlikeable. There are absolutely no scares here. There is no build up of suspense and no moments of tension. Don't even question if it's worth holding out for the "epic" ending; there isn't one. Avoid, like the Plague.

Skyline might be bad, but The Darkest Hour is even worse.
See you would think it nearly impossible to make a film with worse acting and a worse storyline. Looky looky, how they managed just fine.
BUT, if everything else fails, use more awesome CGI... oh no... wait... even the special effects sucked.

How did the cheap, badly acted pile of poo make the cinemas and why did Emile Hirsh sign up? It's easier to enjoy if you pretend the cast have mental issues and are just imagining the threat, while walking round an abandoned factory.

Right, this felt like having your brain lobotomised with a blunt knife by a three-year-old with poor motor skills.

Really, why do I keep watching this crap....

Sci-fi thriller which beggars belief it had $30 million spent on it. The idea of an invisible extraterrestrial enemy is a good one but the effects don't convince and the tension is non-existent. Strange really, as the director did a fair job building an atmosphere in his debut film RIGHT AT YOUR DOOR.

I applaud them trying to make something this silly. It just backfired horribly. I'm sure they wish they'd scaled it down into a low-budget release and I think it would've been treated kinder by the critics. This had no place being released on the big screen frankly.

I was totally into the first 30 minutes then things got illogically confusing and kinda uber lame.

I'll give it some credit for killing off some characters that I didn't expect but other than that it's mostly a piece of shit. Villains that are basically invisible clouds, it doesn't get much more uninteresting than that and the effects were not so impressive. Olivia Thirlby is one attractive dame though.

What Andrew Dignan said. Maybe someone can create some sort of supercut that takes the best bits of this & Chernobyl Diaries and end up with an interesting short about beautiful American tourists getting killed. "Welcome to Russia, sucker," indeed.

I'm always a sucker for films with fantasy aspects, and The Darkest Hour was a good choice for me. I was happy to see Rachel Taylor since I've been a fan of her ever since Transformers, as well as Olivia Thirlby and Emile Hirsch. This one was pretty well paced and the effects were pleasing to the eye, but the story seemed a little bit weak and I was left wishing more things happened. I liked the open shot on the street with the police car, and some of the other shots moving through the city were well done also. Definitely give this one a look.

This movie did nothing for me and I hate the way that it ends too...

This review reportedly contains spoilers. I can handle the truth.