Monday, 20 August 2012

The Darkest hour

I saw this film advertised last year when I was watching whatever film I was watching and from the trailer I was immeditally stunned at this film and what it could achieve. The main male character in the film plays matthew kidman out of the girl next door and everytime I see his face in the darkest hour, i'm always reminded of his work in the girl next door.

The concept is two entreperners are making a visit to moscow for leads on their company but they are screwed over by the boss and while they are there, they meet two girls and all of a sudden the entire world has a power cut and they are invaded by aliens. These so called aliens are invisiable to the human eye and they conduct electrictly so has they are walking through a street, street lights, cars and anything electical lights up indicating that the aliens are near by.

Weird deaths
I'll let you watch the film for yourself but i'd just like to point out that there are some weird deaths during the film, some of the people that you wouldn't think would die, die and the people that you think aren't going to live for very long live on. It's very strange, even the camera angles and the way they exxagerate it make you think they aren't going to die and it's really weird.

Pointless scenes
The first scene of the film doesn't have to be in there, neither does the second scene but the first scene is really pointless. The main character during the film is flying Moscow and he's using his phone to play a game and he's been told by the stewardess to turn it off because it messes with the planes navigation system and then he starts to have a rant about how if phones were really that bad, they wouldn't be allowed and it's got to be the most pointless scene in a film. the opinion of the film changes from a serious film to a more laid back film.

Special effects.
2/3 of the film speaking about the alien special effects, there's virtually none but the aliens are invisable. heck even i can do it with the power of after effects and twinkering with the ripple effects and you've got yourself two/thirds of the film. Just me the special effects get better and you actually the see the aliens in full form and with the aliens being invisiable this created suspense and tension leading up to the actual viewing of the aliens.

I'll keep this short but this film has a weird and i didn't think it was over but when i looked at the timer, i had seven minutes of the film left and i couldn't believe until the main male character says  'this is how it starts' so i think it's set it up for a sequel and if it did pretty well in the box office, i'd think we would see another one but i've never heard or seen anything about it since the trailer was advertised last year.

i'm going to give it a 6.5/10, reasons... well the reasons speak for themselves in the review.
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