The Darkest Hour sucked balls.
Really cool concept that suffered from some flat acting, numerous plotholes, bad CG, stupid looking aliens, and a horribly underwhelming and poorly written ending.
Emile Hirsch is always entertaining, but there was no salvaging the movie after what I can only imagine was an editor who had no idea to keep parts of plot that were desirable to achieve a solid narrative.
3/10
If my girlfriend hadn't bought my ticket, it would be a 1/10, but it holds a small amount of emotional significance to me, so you get a few extra points. This is essentially another Skyline, only Skyline blew this one out of the water.