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MOVIE REVIEW

Dim bulbs aplenty in ‘Darkest Hour’

By Joel Brown

 |  Globe Correspondent  

  December 27, 2011

In “The Darkest Hour,’’ a bunch of invisible flying alien electrical jellyfish thingies rain down from the sky to drink all the juice out of the world’s power grid, or possibly steal the earth’s electrical-conductor minerals, or … something. Our knowledge of the situation is limited because we’re seeing it through the eyes of four young Americans who meet up at a bar in Moscow for vodka shots just in time for the extraterrestrial invasion.

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