Monday, 10 September 2012

The Darkest Hour

The Darkest Hour is a 2011 Russian-American Science fiction thriller. Film Directed by Chris Gorak and
 produced by Timur Bekmambetov. The American thriller movie depicts an alien invasion and stars of the movie are Emile Hirsch, Max minghella, Olivia Thirlby, Joel Kinnaman, and Rachael taylor as a group of people caught in a apocalyptic invasion.
The Film was released on December 25, 2011 in the United States of America.

Ben and Sean, two young American men, travel to Moscow to sell their social networking/party locating software. As they aproach Moscow via plane, the plane short circuits for a minute due to an electrical storm but regains power. In Moscow, they find their Swedish business partner, Skyler, who has betrayed them and already made a deal with the Russians, using a knockoff version of the application. They then go to a local nightclub and meet Natalie a American student as well with her friend Anne. Before they could take a picture the power went off , they go outside to find an Aurora Borealis, but some of the light seperates and falls from the sky, landing all over Moscow. The lights then abruptly disappear, and when a police officer approaches it, the light disintegrates him and begins doing the same to anyone who comes near where the lights are. The lights, mechanical aliens protected by almost invisible force fields, then start hunting for energy from the city as if it is there food, They start to kill everyone around the world as the Aurora travels over the world they have to fight to survive. At the end one of the girls mums is safe and calls her from a subway in America. The group seperates as some of them didn't make it to a Nuclear powered submarine that will take them across the world to America to save the mum and reunite with their family's. Surprisingly the aliens are weak from their own kind of metal and they are unable to see through glass.

1 comment:

  1. Sounds interesting Kaitlin. You need a bit more detail though, as your review is supposed to be 2 paragraphs long.

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