So obviously, if you haven't watched the movie and you want to without me ruining the story for you, stop right here.
You can stay though, for the music.
I think its brilliant.
The movie starts off nice and composed, easy enough to understand. 2 guys who made some sort of app goes to Moscow in order to talk deals with a Swedish businessman only to get their product plagiarized.
Being Americans, the only logical way for them to deal with this loss is to go clubbing, and clubbing they did.
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Actually fell asleep last night and I'm now typing on a Monday. For some reason I always pictured writers to be looking somewhat like this.
Albeit a little grittier and not so clean-shaven. I don't exactly have a cigarette but I do have banana nut crunch which is practically the same thing.
Anyways, whilst (we're using whilst now, yes) they're hard partying they kinda met up with these 2 American chicks and they sorta got along, when suddenly there's a blackout and everyone goes outside, only to see these fairae lights gently descend from the sky. Which is where the action starts.
The story that follows involve them slowly discovering the modus operandi of these beings, how to detect them and finally, how to weaken/injure them.
Now it's all a very interesting concept and the fact that they use scientific knowledge to try and explain the raw basics of how these extraterrestrial beings attack and defend themselves is a path not usually taken, yet not unheard of entirely. If I'm not mistaken, with mankind's advance in science we have, in recent years tried our own hand in giving explanations to extraterrestrial tech and how to deal with it. Including the embarrassing 'virus' that a 1990s macbook can give a interstellar mothership which could cripple its entire system in Independence Day.
Then again, War Of The Worlds note that aliens could fall prey to a common flu virus.
Back to The Darkest Hour. The 4 of them then met some allies, fought more enemies and lost some friends.
Now this is where it annoys me.
There are a few scenes where events totally could have been avoided, and were not probably due to the writer's belief that certain humans in an apocalyptic world can actually be so stupid to think they're better off on their own.
First, this girl, let's call her A, tells her friend B to follow a Russian girl (R) to safety since one of the aliens noticed them while they went fetching supplies and is coming right their way. B then panics, and refuses and claims she is safer in the safehouse which is way up high in the building where they're in. She then runs off leaving A no choice but follow B since well, they're BFFs, and that's what they do.
So they made it into the safehouse, but not before luring the alien right into it too. They then take cover behind a glass table (apparently the aliens see using bio-electricity pulses and glass distorts it so they won't be detected. While the guys in the apartment recover from the shock that not only the girls are back with no supplies they came back bringing an alien buddy with them, they quickly lay down a distraction to save the girls' asses. So while the alien was stunned, the guys opened the fire escape and urges the girls to follow. A quickly dashes off but B (the troublemaker) just sat there crying, mumbling 'I can't do it....no...' and such.
I know its only a movie but FUCK YOU BITCH!
Everyone is in danger now and one guy already died because you led the alien into the safehouse and now you just sit there being helpless and all when they try to save you? Just fuck off.
Makes me wanna slap her right there and then.
I mean how can you be so stupid to not consider running 3 metres to safety compared to hiding behind a glass table which the alien would eventually find. Fuck.
So then she finally relents and makes a shit ass effort run for the fire escape only to be devoured by the alien mid way through.
Well, at least that's the end of her stupidity, right?
Seems not.
Apparently she managed to pass her stupidity to A now. The group of survivors then found this boat and were intending to use it to get to this Navy submarine which was leaving with survivors to take them to a safe place when they suddenly met with a mishap and the boat capsized.
Luckily for them, just before the mishap happened they spotted the boat about 40 metres away, a totally swim-able distance and mind you, they were just travelling in an urban river.
Kinda like the one above, with the submarine parked coveniently on the side.
So obviously they swam towards it, but when they all got onboard, they realized A was missing.
The next half hour involves the whole group going back into land to search for A which after a battle with 4 aliens was found hiding in a bus in a bus terminal.
What the fuck. Seriously?
You could have just swam to the sub, or if not, since you're on land, RUN towards it???
Why the fuck would someone even venture into the streets again only to cuddle up in a bus, waiting for the guy to come find you and then cry out 'you came back for me!'
Shit man. Movies nowadays.
At least the first half of the movie allows Emile Hirsch, (the protagonist) to showcase his acting skills.
I was really disappointed. This movie had so much potential, but the writer's tendency to dumb down its characters to add fillers is really sickening.
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Someone recommended me another film called Vanishing On 7th Street. It's about another group of survivors who must find a way to combat some weird form of darkness that is making everyone it touches disappear leaving their clothes behind.
I must say, it's eerie enough watching the shadows slowly creep up on the characters as they run for the only safety they have -light. Worse still, the shadows have a way of manipulating you in a way such that a certain line in the movie has a lot of impact on me.
'Do not trust any other light, other than the one you hold in your own hand.'
Damn.
The nature of the phenomenon is never explained, except that the biblical references are so heavy it's almost impossible to ignore.
Anyway, this movie too, had a lot of promise initially, yet it was crippled by the same problems experienced in The Darkest Hour.
A certain scene has a young boy running off from the protagonist and into a church after hearing whispers of his dead mom coming from the shadows despite the incessant warnings previously. At this point you could probably tell that either he is tired of living, or that he has somehow magically turned retarded.
As he slowly treads away from the light and into the darkness, you could see the dark hands reaching for him as the screams of the unknown becomes deafening but wait, what's that!
The protagonist suddenly drives a truck through the church doors, shining its high beams to drive away the darkness. You might think the boy, after realizing the danger he was just in, would climb into the truck and into safety but no, in a feat of extreme obstinacy and stupidity he managed to blurt out 'I saw my mom!' and in spite of the protagonist yelling for him to get into the truck he shook his head and run off.
Again, another WTF moment.
The protagonist then runs away from the truck to get the boy back and just then the truck slowly runs out of power and the darkness consumes him, making him vanish too. Just like that.
Because he went to save some idiotic boy.
And the boy had the nerve to turn around, look at the pile of clothes, and continue at his quest to meet his momma right in the bowels of darkness. Luckily for him, there are candles in the altar and he huddles there, as the shadows now surround him, closing in as the candles slowly die out.
This is it, I thought, This is how he will realize how stupid he is and be killed.
*Inserts Hollywood twist!*
He mumbles 'I exist' over and over again and by some insane writer's reason he fucking miraculously survives?!?!?
WHAT IN THE FUCKS NAME WAS THAT I MEAN WHA- I CAN'T EVEN-
WHAT?
Fuck this shit.
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