'The Darkest Hour' Faces its Most Vivid Failure.

If the world would end with the move of a ticking-clock, what place on earth would you be? This is a question that pondered in me after watching The Darkest Hour; honestly, I wouldn't be lounging in some night-club feeding my hungry eyeballs sighting some thin and fine-looking bangable babes.

In this Sci-Fi thriller, a group of beautiful young people, a duo of web entrepreneur, a possible business partner, and a package of two hot chicks find themselves drawn into an alien invasion somehow similar to the modest survivor: Tom Cruise's "War of the Worlds".

Chris Gorak directed the film, the dude behind the humble success of "Right At Your Door". He was an excellent director to the mentioned film, but as I would watch this latest, The Darkest Hour seemed to make Gorak's skills in developing characters nothing but overwhelmed by the size of this productions: the demands of this greatly huge production is understandably high. (Right At Your Door isn't as big as this one). I like the fact that some convincing characters played by Emile Hirsch and Olivia Thrilby; while the characters developed nothing resembling as a survivalist for an alien invasion which tends to lack the film of grip. The unseen enemy creates a paranoia of some sort, however in this cheaply-almost-looked-green-screen-animation-imagery film, it wouldn't come close to a rote tense that all viewers expected to get.

'The Darkest Hour' is a brave attempt, but I would say that in the recent memory, films doesn't end only on bravery and effort; rather films' dead end are technicality, characters, heart, and realism. 2 stars.