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The Darkest Hour
MEANRANK
37/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #5841
- IMDb #5627
- Google retired #1748
- Rotten Tomatoes #5068
- Metacritic #5067
- Letterboxd #5680
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #5386
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #5053
- Metacritic Critics #5006
- Metacritic Audience #4769
- Criticker #4192
- AlloCiné #5503
Every rating
Split
Lowest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 12, highest is Google on 86. Critics average 15, everyone else 43.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →Two young American entrepreneurs travel to Moscow to pitch their business idea. They arrive just as the city is invaded by invisible aliens that harvest electrical energy and vaporize any human they encounter. They join a small band of survivors, hiding in the shadows and desperately trying to devise a way to fight back against an enemy they can barely see or understand.
Details
- Director
- Chris Gorak
- Writers
- Jon Spaihts, Leslie Bohem, M.T. Ahern
- Released
- 22 December 2011
- Country
- United States, Russia
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 89 min
- Rated
- PG-13
- Budget
- $30.0M
- Box office
- $64.6M
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