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Keith Staskiewicz, Entertainment Weekly: WEAK (cg) "...surprisingly thrill-less... You should be rooting for the humans, but you might as well be rooting for the blobs. Most likely, though, you'll just be rooting for the credits." (Read the full review...) 319 words, 12/30/11
Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times: POOR "...really, how slovenly is it to use invisible aliens? If you're going to tease us with nothing but pinwheels of light for three-quarters of the film, you'd better have one heck of a reveal up your sleeve." (Read the full review...) 480 words, 12/27/11 Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times: FAIR "The idea of semi-invisible aliens, an unseen enemy, should mean the film has a lingering sense of paranoid abstraction... but 'Darkest Hour' never gets beyond rote efficiency.... the real-world shots look oddly fake." (Read the full review...) 414 words, 12/27/11 Glenn Sumi, Toronto Now: POOR (cg) "The CG effects, dialogue and acting are laughable... the picture even lacks visual flair - strange for a film helmed by Chris Gorak, who's better known as an art director and production designer." (Read the full review...) 218 words, 12/29/11
Joel Brown, Boston Globe: POOR (cg) "...a bunch of invisible flying alien electrical jellyfish thingies rain down from the sky to drink all the juice out of the world's power grid, or possibly steal the earth's electrical-conductor minerals, or... something." (Read the full review...) 395 words, 12/27/11
Eric Eisenberg, Cinema Blend: POOR (cg) "...a terrible mix of incompetence and missed opportunity.... moves quickly and is predictable, filled with flat characters, and has zero tension. Why would anyone want to see a movie like that?" (Read the full review...) 625 words, 12/28/11 Nathan Rabin, AV Club: POOR (cg) "...a film utterly devoid of merit, a dreary sci-fi slog so tedious even its own actors seem bored. Who can blame them? They're in a film that tries to make a variation on static cling terrifying." (Read the full review...) 298 words, 12/27/11 Budd Wilkins, Slant: POOR (cg) "...a dimwitted 3D sci-fi travesty directed by Chris Gorak and produced by Russia's own master of the hyperkinetic, Timur Bebmambetov... what possible incentive could there be for submitting to 'The Darkest Hour's' utter pointlessness?" (Read the full review...) 717 words, 12/27/11 Glenn Sumi, Toronto Now: POOR (cg) "The CG effects, dialogue and acting are laughable... the picture even lacks visual flair - strange for a film helmed by Chris Gorak, who's better known as an art director and production designer." (Read the full review...) 218 words, 12/29/11 MaryAnn Johanson, Flick Filosopher: POOR (cg) "You're caught in a strange city during a global disaster: not a bad jumping-off point. But beyond some running around with a tourist map to try to find the U.S. embassy, exploring this potentially intriguing notion never becomes a concern..." (Read the full review...) 640 words, 01/13/12
Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times: POOR "...really, how slovenly is it to use invisible aliens? If you're going to tease us with nothing but pinwheels of light for three-quarters of the film, you'd better have one heck of a reveal up your sleeve." (Read the full review...) 480 words, 12/27/11 Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times: FAIR "The idea of semi-invisible aliens, an unseen enemy, should mean the film has a lingering sense of paranoid abstraction... but 'Darkest Hour' never gets beyond rote efficiency.... the real-world shots look oddly fake." (Read the full review...) 414 words, 12/27/11
Joe Leydon, Daily Variety: GOOD (NOT GREAT) "...a modestly inventive and involving variation on a standard-issue sci-fi doomsday scenario.... the rote familiarity of scripter Jon Spaihts' premise is neatly counterbalanced by the exotic unfamiliarity of the pic's Moscow setting." (Read the full review...) 659 words, 12/25/11 John DeFore, Hollywood Reporter: WEAK "...expects dramatic shots of a depopulated Red Square to make up for a flatlining screenplay and the absence of even a single compelling character.... suffers from an oppressive ordinariness." (Read the full review...) 542 words, 12/25/11 Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times: FAIR "The idea of semi-invisible aliens, an unseen enemy, should mean the film has a lingering sense of paranoid abstraction... but 'Darkest Hour' never gets beyond rote efficiency.... the real-world shots look oddly fake." (Read the full review...) 414 words, 12/27/11 Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times: POOR "...really, how slovenly is it to use invisible aliens? If you're going to tease us with nothing but pinwheels of light for three-quarters of the film, you'd better have one heck of a reveal up your sleeve." (Read the full review...) 480 words, 12/27/11
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