History Film / TheDarkestHour

** Justified in that [[spoiler: they can only see electricity, and glass is an insulated material.]]

Ben (Max Minghella) and Sean (Emile Hirsch), two American entrepreneurs, join up with their corrupt Swedish business partner Skyler (Joel Kinnaman) and two female tourists, Natalie (Olivia Thirlby) and Anne (Rachael Taylor) as they try to make their way out of Moscow.

'''''The Darkest Hour''''' is a 2011 Russian-American film about a HordeOfAlienLocusts invading Earth. [[InvisibleMonsters Invisible]] except for occasional orange ripples, [[TouchOfDeath deadly to the touch]], and [[NighInvulnerability basically invincible]], they quickly slaughter everyone in their path.

* [[spoiler: AnyoneCanDie]]

* [[spoiler: EarnYourHappyEnding:]] The film ends with a limited number of survivors (including a few of the protagonists) going to rendezvous, [[spoiler: effective weapons against the aliens developed]], and the possibility that [[spoiler: the aliens will just up and leave once they're done taking what they need.]]

* [[spoiler:HoistByHisOwnPetard:]] [[spoiler:When an unshielded alien is struck by a piece of another one, it disintegrates like its victims did.]]

* [[spoiler: PlanetLooters: The aliens only want Earth's resources, specifically conductive metals. Humans are just in the way.]]

* [[spoiler: WhenThingsSpinScienceHappens: Once their shields are breached, the aliens are shown to be surrounded by spinning rings.]]

* Foreshadowing[=/=]TheCuckooLanderWasRight: A woman at the beginning (the one walling herself into her house) says "watch out for the lights". Later on they use lightbulbs as an early warning signal against the aliens.

* {{EMP}}: The aliens' arrival causes this, knocking out basically everything that wasn't somehow shielded.

* KillItWithFire: One of the early attempts to deal with the aliens. It doesn't hurt them, but the energy from the fire keeps them at bay.

* {{Wormsign}}: The aliens are invisible, but their highly-charged shielding has the side-effect of powering any electrical device nearby. This even extends to lightbulbs that aren't plugged into anything.

* Foreshadowing / CloudCuccolanderHasAPoint: A woman at the beginning (the one walling herself into her house) says "watch out for the lights". Later on they use lightbulbs as an early warning signal against the aliens.

* Foreshadowing/CloudCuccolanderHasAPoint: A woman at the beginning (the one walling herself into her house) says "watch out for the lights". Later on they use lightbulbs as an early warning signal against the aliens.

* AchillesHeel: The aliens are for all intents [[NighInvulnerability completely invincible]] [[spoiler:while they're shielded and invisible.]] Even a direct hit from a ''armor piercing rocket'' only knocks off a [[ChekovsGun chunk of metal]] the size of a man's fist. [[spoiler:When the shields are down, however, it's another story - it only takes a few seconds of [[MoreDakka sustained automatic small-arms fire]] to kill one. The real revelation comes when Sean throws that chunk of metal at an unshielded alien - it [[HoistByHisOwnPetard disintegrates like its victims did]].]]

* ChekovsGun: The chunk of metal that falls off one of the aliens after it takes a direct hit from an ''[[NighInvulnerability armor piercing rocket.]]'' [[spoiler:When Sean throws it at an unshielded alien, it [[HoistByHisOwnPetard disintegrates like its victims did]].]]

* JerkassVictim: Yep.
** JerkassHasAPoint: While far from the nicest character, the {{Jerkass}} still has a point when he suggests going to the Swedish Embassy since it's closer.

* JerkassHasAPoint: While far from the nicest character, the {{Jerkass}} still has a point when he suggests going to the Swedish Embassy since it's closer.

'''''The Darkest Hour''''' 2011 Russian-American film about a HordeOfAlienLocusts invading Earth. [[InvisibleMonsters Invisible]] except for occasional orange ripples, [[TouchOfDeath deadly to the touch]], and [[NighInvulnerability basically invincible]], they quickly slaughter everyone in their path.

* MotherRussiaMakesYouStrong: Almost every russian character is a {{Badass}} in more or less extent in this movie.

'''''The Darkest Hour''''' 2011 Russian-American film about a HordeOfAlienLocusts invading Earth. [[InvisibleMonsters Invisible]] except for occasional orange ripples, [[TouchOfDeath deadly to the touch]], and [[ImmuneToBullets basically invincible]], they quickly slaughter everyone in their path.

* [[spoiler: GlassCannon: The aliens are frighteningly powerful and basically invincible when their shields work, but beneath that are fragile enough to be killed by chucking a piece of metal at them.]]

* InvisibilityCloak: The aliens [[spoiler: have shields which render them]] nearly invisible except for occasional electrical arcs on the surface. It also instantly vaporizes anything it touches, and can resist a shot from a bazooka.

* TouchOfDeath: Anything that touches the aliens [[spoiler: shields]] is disintregrated on contact.

* TouchOfDeath: Anything that touches the aliens [[spoiler: shields]] is vaporized on contact.
* [[spoiler: WeaksauceWeakness: The aliens can't see through glass.]]

* ArtisticLicensePhysics: A radio is shown to work with no apparent loss in quality while inside Sergai's Faraday cage, and later Natalie uses her cell phone inside a submarine.
* BadassBookworm: Sergai, an electrician, made an improvised Faraday cage and microwave gun to combat the aliens.
* BizarreAlienBiology: The aliens are metallic lifeforms, and thus consume conductive metals to survive.

* GlassCannon: The aliens are frighteningly powerful and basically invincible when their shields work, but beneath that are fragile enough to be killed by chucking a piece of metal at them.

* InvisibilityCloak: The aliens have shields which render them nearly invisible except for occasional electrical arcs on the surface. It also instantly vaporizes anything it touches, and can resist a shot from a bazooka.

* PlanetLooters: The aliens only want Earth's resources, specifically conductive metals. Humans are just in the way.
* TouchOfDeath: Anything that touches the aliens' shields is vaporized on contact.
* WeaksauceWeakness: The aliens can't see through glass.
* WhenThingsSpinScienceHappens: Once their shields are breached, the aliens are shown to be surrounded by spinning rings.

Ben (Max Minghella) and Sean (Emile Hirsch), two American entrepreneurs, join up with their corrupt Swedish business partner Skyler (Joel Kinnaman) and two American tourists, Natalie (Olivia Thirlby) and Anne (Rachael Taylor) as they try to make their way out of Moscow.

* GlassCannon: The aliens are frighteningly powerful and basically invincible when their shields worth, but beneath that are fragile enough to be killed by chucking a piece of metal at them.

* PLanetLooters: The aliens only want Earth's resources, specifically conductive metals. Humans are just in the way.