* HilariousInHindsight:
** Skyler gets KilledOffForReal? [[Film/RoboCop2014 They can rebuild him!]]
** The Russian soldiers have [[VideoGame/TeamFortress2 a Pyro and a bazooka Soldier.]]
* HomegrownHero: Aliens attack and level Moscow. The leads are a bunch of American tourists (and [[spoiler:[[SortingAlgorithmOfDeadness a Swede who quickly dies being stupid]]]]). Though TheRealHeroes are Russian cops, a Russian engineer, and Russian naval officers on a submarine. The Americans are just the fast-talking dumbasses running from place to place getting the various badasses to [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotPolitical link up]].
* OneSceneWonder: Many characters with just as much or more memorability as the leads only show up briefly for one scene or a couple of continuous scenes.
** The BadassBystander bartender who throws Molotov cocktails at the aliens.
** The girl Skyler hits on at the nightclub never even gets any dialogue, but her MsFanservice wardrobe and impactful death scene are both remembered by many fans.
** The old woman bricking up her apartment who warns them about the "ghosts."
** The cops who become the first people who the aliens show off their power on.
* SpecialEffectFailure:
** A ''literal'' example, oddly enough. The effect for the invisible aliens (so that the audience can see them) only works in 3D; on a 2D screen, they are simply not there, and the effect is entirely lost.
** The aliens themselves can look kind of CG-ish in areas.
* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter:
** Sergei TheSmartGuy responsible for finding the aliens’ weakness and made his apartment into a Faraday cage and who provides shelter to the other survivors. He feels like he should have been a main character, if not ''the'' main character. Instead, Sergei is only around for about ten minutes.
** The BadassBystander bartender dying of his wounds after making it into the storeroom is regrettable after he captured the fans’ attention by throwing Molotov cocktails at the aliens.
** The surviving cop who first saw the aliens could have been a ChekhovsGunman reappearing with the policemen fighting back.