"The Darkest Hour" (2011)

Two young-and-hopeful American web designers travel to Moscow in hopes of closing the deal that will make them big, only to find that their idea was stolen and their services are no longer needed. While getting drunk to ignore their problems, they meet up with some fellow tourists through some terrible smartphone app that's some cross between Twitter and Tinder. Just in time for the power to go out at the night club and everyone begins getting killed by floating light creatures which turn out to be aliens that can go invisible, feed on electricity (but are also given away by electrical objects), can see through solid objects, and cannot see through glass.

"The Darkest Hour" is bad. Like, a 12% on Rotten Tomatoes, bad. The plot could have been decent, had the writers decided to change any of the story from when they wrote it together at age 10 (that is not a fact, that was exaggeration). Some of the FX on the creatures look pretty cool, when the creatures are actually shown.

Every character is an attractive douche bag. All of them. They're all idiots. I read one review that said "If these idiots are humanity's last hope, I'm rooting for the aliens." That about sums up this movie. I don't even want to waste time on a review here. Similar to "The Covenant", there is nothing good here: the acting is bad, the writing is bad, the dialogue is bad. The sad thing is, there are some half-decent thespians in the movie. Another review I saw asked "did the cast want to make this movie just to go to Russia on somebody else's dime?"

Skip it. Please skip it. Don't subject yourself to the torture I had to. Go watch just about anything else.