Festooned with cute, mugging kids; lots of jazzy redos of beloved Christmas tunes on the soundtrack; and enough tug - at - your - heartstrings moments to make
an entire theater feel warm on a blustery winter afternoon.
«While the lush 3D location shots of a desolate Moscow are admittedly stunning, the forgettable characters and paint - by - the - numbers plot threaten to burn the
entire film out of your brain mere seconds after you've left the
theater,» says Daley before joking, «Remove the sporadic alien attacks and «The Darkest Hour «suddenly
feels like a Sunday night slideshow of your parents» summer tour of the Motherland.»