The Darkest Dawn

This got 5 star reviews on Netflix and I'm honestly not sure why. Terrible, over acting - if you can call it acting. Situation escalates quickly, unbelievably so. I've seen better acting in at my local youth theatre.

Absolutely some of the worst acting ever. It's just too distracting from what could have been a somewhat enjoyable movie. The dialog is simple-minded and completely unrealistic, bordline art school cheesiness.

The Darkest Dawn is a Brit, B grade, alien apocalypse flick.

Its a not too shabby effort. The acting is alright and some of the special effects, whilst, very obviously CGI, actually do fit the overall, "end of the world", feel of the film quite well.

What does show are the clear budgetary limitations. Rather "ho hum" sets and weapons that look, for the most part, like badly dated, army surplus.

The scripting for this film could have been better too. The character narrative, is, at times, a bit cheesy. The loving family thing is over cooked but mercifully, does not last, as the aliens quickly arrive on the scene.

All in all, not a bad effort from a film with B credentials. On that basis a six out of ten from me.

So many positive reviews here on IMDb I thought I have to give it a try but I was sceptic because most positive reviews came from the UK. And the trailer looked promising too so I tried to watch this low budget flick.

London has fallen into the hands of aliens so it's up to two sisters to survive the attack. The first 10 minutes looked great and even as it shows that the effects were CGI due the shaky cams and the attack it looked rather above mediocre. But once they ran from London they go out into the countryside. And from there on this flick falls like London just did.

It's waiting until the last 15 a 20 minutes before the real action comes back in with another space ship coming around. Being a bit of a found-footage I can understand the use of shaky cams and distorted images due the alien signals. But what the hell was that in between the two attacks. The fast forward was close in hands.

Promising beginning, rather boring and a great ending makes it simply hard to watch. Even as you could see it was made with addiction and dedication to the genre the limited budget destroyed the flick.

Gore 0/5 Nudity 0/5 Effects 2/5 Story 1,5/5 Comedy 0/5

I think that 20 years of POV films is enough. The human race is about to disappear and the girl has cold blood to record every single passage of her day. On the other hand the script is nothing new and the film is too dark. It's difficult to say anything good about this dull movie.