Year of Release: 2011
Director: Chris Gorak
Screenplay: Joe Spaihts, story by Leslie Bohem, M.T. Ahern and Joe Spaihts
Starring: Emile Hirsch, Olivia Thirlby, Max Minghella, Rachael Taylor, Joel Kinnaman
This alien invasion movie opens with two American entrepreneurs, Sean (Hirsch) and Ben(Minghella), who travel to Moscow to sell their new idea for a social networking site. However when they arrive they discover that their Swedish partner, Skyler (Kinnaman), has betrayed them and sold the idea beneath them. Drowning their sorrows in a club, Ben and Sean meet tourists Natalie (Thirlby) and Anne (Taylor). Suddenly, however, the city comes under attack from invisible aliens who disintegrate people. By the morning, Sean, Ben, Natalie, Anne and Skyler are forced to venture out to find safety and other survivors while avoiding the aggressive aliens.
This film really is pretty terrible. The storyline is full of clichés and the characters are almost non-existent. There are some effective sequences, with the deserted Moscow streets being very evocative, and there is some tension in certain scenes. The problem is that there is very little suspense, probably most fans of this type of film would be able to easily guess who is going to live or die, and the storyline is fairly predictable, pretty much involving the same pattern where the characters rest up somewhere and then realise that they should get to somewhere else necessitating a dangerous trek across the city. The aliens themselves, although largely invisible, make their presence known by appearing as kind of golden, glowing dust clouds and causing electrical items to flicker.
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