The Darkest Hour

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New take on alien invasion/survival genre, Timur Bekmambetov has a hand in it too. I think it looks good so far but will have to see......

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jY5QCLHmfY

JP Liz V1

It is directed by Chris Gorak (directed Right at Your Door and art director on Minority Report and Fight Club)

I like the fact it is set in Moscow and not the US again

seraphimvc

interesting. i am a sucker to this kinda sci-fi movies and director of wanted eh??? ill defo pay more attention to this!

don ramo

due out here january next year,:(

it seems like an interesting and original play on an alien invasion,

damn i hate finding films that look this good 5 months before there release,

humanji

There was a trailer for this before Sherlock Holmes 2. It really comes across as a bastardised version of the Stalker computer games/book for the tween market.

don ramo

went to see this earlier, TBH its plays out how youd expect an event like this happening would, total survival for all humans nobody went lord of the flies or anything, im still debating wheather i liked the somewhat realism of if i wanted more hollywood storytelling put in there

its was good fun but they seemd to play it kina safe,

and i thought the ending could have been better, kinda setting it up for a sequel you know they wont make,

Galvasean

Hmm, I got the impression from the trailer that it's one of those movies where if the aliens/monsters so much as tip an extra/unimportant person they eviscerate them instantaneously, but for some reason grab lead characters by the ankles and drag them..

somuj

Galvasean wrote: »

Hmm, I got the impression from the trailer that it's one of those movies where if the aliens/monsters so much as tip an extra/unimportant person they eviscerate them instantaneously, but for some reason grab lead characters by the ankles and drag them..

Not so at all. Half of the Leading cast met their demise Wasn't a bad movie. A very good concept I thought. Could have been so much better tho. The ending was very poor.

constitutionus

got around to seeing this earlier on in the week.

its OK.

the effects range from very good, to "**** me thats a playstation character ! "

there are some nice ideas in it but its just not executed as well as it could . they really couldve made more of the aliens invisibility but from what i can remember there was only really one scene where someone mistook a breeze moving debris/dust for an alien presence.

they really couldve ramped up the tension there but didnt.

and the end is APPALLING.

dont get me wrong, not in general, it finishes up fine.

its just the final scene is so corny it looks like it couldve come from an 80s sci fi show.

oddly enough the science in it isnt half bad. ok its still film science but at least stuf like faraday cages made sense in it.

all in all its decidely "meh" though. not BAD. just "run of the mill". youve seen it all already TBH with skyline and battle LA (Though its more like the former than the latter).

so i'd give it a 5 out of 10.

its ok if you have an off day and are in the mood of a sci/fi. the main plus's i'd give it is the 3D is actually quite good. im not a fan of it anymore as im pissed off trying to align two sets of glasses now just to watch a film (i wear spectacles) but its not the waste in this that it was in stuff like tron and clash of the titans.

and they do kill people you wouldnt expect amongst the cast, which at least keeps it interesting and some nice dialogue too.

Birneybau

Don't know if anyone will agree with me but I just think Timur Bekmambetov is a bit of a chancer.

I mean, has he actually directed or indeed had his name attached to a proper good film?

I mean, a good film, not some mediocre mess.

p to the e

As I said somewhere else on this section, I saw this during the week and was physically angry at just how bad this was. The acting was absolutely some of the worst I've ever seen and making the aliens invisible was just lazy. When we do finally get to see them they look like they were rendered on a toaster. Someone really must have some dirt on Emile Hirsch for him to have taken part in this. I have to admit that I was quite surprised at who lived and who died. However the cheek of someone to create this pile of puke and attempt to leave it open for a sequel.

Birneybau

Birneybau wrote: »

Don't know if anyone will agree with me but I just think Timur Bekmambetov is a bit of a chancer.

I mean, has he actually directed or indeed had his name attached to a proper good film?

I mean, a good film, not some mediocre mess.

Night Watch is a fantastic piece if cinema. Its Visually intensive with a great premise and script and some fantastic set pieces. That it was made for less than the catering budget of the Matrix sequel makes it all the more impressive. Day Watch was a bit of a mess but was still a visual long stunning piece of work. Same goes for Wanted, story is a mess but it's a treat for the eyes.

Skinfull

The movie started off well but took a nose dive quite early on. I thought higher of Emile Hirsh before this flick (as an actor I mean) but he was as bad as the rest in this.

The aliens were poor, looked cartoony and were kinda stupid. but I thought it might be more "fun" than it was.

The one thing that really bugged me as a gaping plot hole ...no not a plot hole, it just plain did NOT make sense...was

how the girl ended up in the bus at the end. I mean she was thrown back into the water with the blast from the falling building, and while everyone else in the group managed to resurface and swim back to the sub, she swam past it? climbed on land? then ran away from the sub? Hid on a gorram bus?

Seriously!? :rolleyes:

Nabber

As always Aliens travel across the universe to die with ease. Aliens never used any tactics. Just approach and try and kill. Humans do 'A, B & C ect.... Aliens just do 'A' until they die, I'll never get my head around why people never flag this as the biggest plot hole in in Alien invasion films.

These Alien invasion movies are getting poorer. This was just another to the list.

somuj

Skinfull wrote: »

The one thing that really bugged me as a gaping plot hole ...no not a plot hole, it just plain did NOT make sense...was

how the girl ended up in the bus at the end. I mean she was thrown back into the water with the blast from the falling building, and while everyone else in the group managed to resurface and swim back to the sub, she swam past it? climbed on land? then ran away from the sub? Hid on a gorram bus?

Seriously!? :rolleyes:

Yea that really annoyed me too. I actually let a yell out in the cineama and was told to shut up. It did not make one lick of sense. I've actually come to the conclusion that a scene was cut from that part and hopefully will be on the DVD.

Skinfull

somuj wrote: »

Yea that really annoyed me too. I actually let a yell out in the cineama and was told to shut up. It did not make one lick of sense. I've actually come to the conclusion that a scene was cut from that part and hopefully will be on the DVD.

Ha! I hope you are right about the deleted scene!
I too let out a yell at the cinema for the above mentioned part but luckily everyone in the movie was laughing so we all cheered!

Finally got around to watching this and not sure what to think. I expected so much more from Gorak based on the tension he created in the criminally unseen Right at Your Door. Seems that in the years since that film he's lost any ability to build suspense which is a shame as there is so much you could do with the alien's ability to be invisible. A scene early on where our heroes mistake a breeze for the aliens was a great idea that was never used again.

The script could really have done with some more work, especially the ending scenes which were completely devoid of any logic. Likewise the whole eccentric Russian's alien proof apartment, did he throw it up in a few hours or was he waiting for the invasion to begin? I forgave that lapse in logic but the whole lead girl getting separated in the water was just retarded, I really hope that there is a scene that was deleted as otherwise it makes absolutely no sense.

My biggest complaint is just what the hell was up with the FXs work, the aliens looked like something from the early 90s. I played PS1 games with better graphics. I'm wondering if it's a case of A Sound of Thunder syndrome in that someone plugged out the computers before they finished rendering and the studio just said "fuck it, release it as is". Your average Syfy original film has better CGI than what we saw here.

Even with all that in mind I still enjoyed the film in a completely brain dead manner which is absolutely no defense for just how middle of the road it all is. There was so much potential here for a truly great lil alien invasion film and bar the setting and the films willingness to kill off main characters there is absolutely no reason to go out of your way to watch this. Shame as they could really have turned this into a franchise with different countries being able to produce different films in the series.

Kur4mA

I wanted to say something smart and witty about how bad this movie is, but really... it's just pure shíte tbh. Shockingly bad.

Just finished it and I enjoyed it for what it was.