Review – The Darkest Hour

Aliens attack Moscow, much to the chagrin of American tourists who happen to be there at the time. The aliens are invisible, but you can tell when they’re around because they cause electrical disturbances. See, they’re here on Earth looking for ... okay, you caught me. I lost interest long before they ever got around to explaining exactly what the aliens were up to. My attention started to wander when it turned out that the aliens were blinded by metal and apparently lacked the attention span to follow anything that moved behind a metal object. And though I liked watching them turn their victims to powder, they would have been better off had they stayed invisible. Once they were drawn out from behind their force fields, they proved to be only slightly less dumb looking than Langoliers. See if desperate