This Russia-set alien B movie started off with a cool premise of invisible aliens but falls flat with its corny dialogue and its lackluster special effects.
The thriller is from the former art director who has worked with Spielberg, Fincher, Gilliam and the Coen and is a co-production between Russia and the United States thus being set in Moscow.

The films main characters are four young Americans, two randy guys want to set up a social network in Russia to give people directions to popular clubs, with this invention they also wish to explore the local female talent.This talent turn out to be the two main American girls.Which seems quite a coincidence seeing as none of them can speak Russian.Which is also pretty dumb as the guys were trying to set up a buisness in Russia.They also conveniently meet the Sweedish entrepreneur who had stolen their idea a few scenes earlier he manages to show up at the same club too.

Promptly the building suffers from a blackout and everyone heads outside to see the blacked out city lit up by a sky full of whispy lights descending akin to to Tinkerbells.
Soon enough after landing and dissapearing from view a police man checks out what remains out of sight and soon becomes disintergrated in a flash of sparks and ashes.Upon this the crowds start running and chaos ensues with people being vaporized left and right and soon the five foreigners take sanctuary in the clubs storeroom and after a montage of the next five days find themselves the only survivors in the deserted Moscow.

The Moscow setting is different from the usual settings of New York of Los Angeles and is a nice change.The empty streets eerily similar to that of '28 days later' but whilst that film showed the characters getting more and more beat down, the characters of this film repell dirt and scratches and remain well groomed throughout the film with perfect hair and makeup. The guys manage to stay beardless throughout and the sweedish guy still manages to have a perfect goatee after five days in a storeroom. 

The characterization was terrible and gives no reason for the viewer to care about the cast, with this I actually cheered when one of the characters burst into ashes.
The dialogue was pretty bland and corny. The dialogue has gems such as "I'm trying to keep my freak-out on the inside" and also a classic "They killed the dog" which was pretty silly seeing as the cast had already seen people vaporised, the aliens didnt need to kick the dog so to speak.Also being in Russia it was convinient that every Russian character could speak some English.

The aliens camouflage whilst cool is explained pretty badly. Whilst using pseudo-science as an explanation it ruins this by having inconsitencies and errors. Also with a film about invisible aliens invading you would think they would have a cool explantion as to why they were invading or some sort of big reveal. When you do actually see the aliens and find out why they are here it feels just a letdown.

Also with the aliens being invisible why would this only be in 3D ಠ_ಠ

On the positive side the alien whisps of light are pretty cool and also the electric weapons they have are also pretty interesting. The burst of embers and ashes with the kills is impressive but still done too little.The film also had two cool locations such as a destroyed bridge and a crashed plane but due to the budget these things happen offscreen.

If you want a Good B movie this film will not be for you. You would be better off watching something like independence day then sitting through this boring hour and a half.


★★★☆☆☆☆☆☆☆  3/10