The Darkest Hour's main redeeming feature is the interesting and impressive use of Moscow as a backdrop to what is essentially The War Of The Worlds with a slasher template in which the kills - although impressively swift and exciting in the first wave attack - are all the same. There is some good effects work on display, but the reveal of the creatures towards the end is surprisingly weak. In spite of occasional tension derived from the 'invisible' aliens, bolstered immensely by a strong Tyler Bates score, most of the running time is quite a dull plod, largely owing to uninteresting and shallow characters saddled with stretches of banal dialogue and join-the-dots plotting and exposition. The 3D post-conversion is mostly satisfactory with a good sense of depth and space conveyed, especially in the exteriors. The Darkest Hour is not as weak as Skyline, but this sound idea could have been saved by stronger writing.
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