The four lead characters manage to escape, along with a shady Swedish guy, Skyler (Joel Kinnaman), who has earlier stolen the idea of Max and Sean. The next hour shows them trying to survive the alien invasion. First, they hide in a basement for several days and when they come out later, they see the entire city devastated. All electrical power sources are being consumed by the aliens who are invisible to the naked eye but can be detected by electrical charges.
They meet other survivors, including a brave teener who hunts for food (Veronika Vernadskaya), an engineer who invents a gun to kill the extraterrestrials (Dato Bakhtadze), and the horse-riding leader of rebel survivors (Gosha Kutsenko). Their goal is to get to the river where a submarine is waiting for them to take them to safety.
What’s nice about the movie is how they shot it on location in Moscow showing a deserted Red Square (reminiscent of what happened to New York in “I Am Legend” and London in “28 Days”) and some familiar tourist places now destroyed by the aliens. The problem is that the characters are not interesting and some are just plain dumb you’d even wish the aliens get rid of them right away. In the final sequence in the river, a girl falls into the water and, instead of seeking her companions who are nearby, she manages to go to a parking area for buses that is so far away and even gets to hide in one of the buses waiting to be rescued by Sean.
How she got there when there are so many aliens around is beyond comprehension. Later, she even gets a text message from abroad. How she got it is another incredible mystery. Even the aliens are stupid and cannot detect people just hiding under cars. In short, this is just such a horrible, terrible movie that you’d wish that when aliens do ever invade our planet, they will make those who do stupid movies like this their first victims.
