Who The Heck Was This Made For?

Last week. I had the audacity to watch sci-fi thriller The Darkest Hour. Of the few things I have to say about this movie, one of them is that it surprisingly borrows the plot from the 90s classic, Tremors. But then that's it, the movie is completely devoid of anything unique, or out of the ordinary and isn't worth watching.

For some reason, you'll know who's getting shredded next

On a visual level, The Darkest Hour tries it's best to become nothing but a light show with amazing fluid sims (oil smoke). Every time a human awkwardly gets hauled down and ultimately gets shredded into bits and ash, you want more. I found myself pausing and rewinding at these sequences very often as they were a joy to watch.

Now that is just fantastic. Policeman in the shredder.

On a professional level, the movie never delivers. You will never feel satisfied of what's going on as you'll be puzzled at how it even got started. Aliens are looking for minerals, again...where have I seen this before? Oh yeah, Cowboys and Aliens! Which made slightly more sense than this because of proper exposition. YOU KNEW WHO THE CHARACTERS WERE! In this case, YOU DON'T! You don't even know where they're from, what they're doing in Moscow, what the relationship between the 2 chicks is because every now and then they'll give each other the 'eyes' and whisper to each other as if they know more than ought to about the alien invasion. Truth is, they don't know SH**.

Looks like someone stole your sweet rolls.

Don't get me wrong, I'm NOT a critic but when it comes to movies like these, I question my sanity. On that soppy note, I'd love to hear what you thought about the film. Lay your otherwise meaningless opinions on me in the comments. 

On to The Grey.