YMMV / The Darkest Hour

• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • Skyler gets Killed Off for Real? They can rebuild him!
  • The Russian soldiers have a Pyro and a bazooka Soldier.
• Homegrown Hero: Aliens attack and level Moscow. The leads are a bunch of American tourists (and a Swede who quickly dies being stupid). Though The Real Heroes 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 link up.
• One-Scene Wonder: 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 Badass Bystander bartender who throws Molotov cocktails at the aliens.
  • The girl Skyler hits on at the nightclub never even gets any dialogue, but her Ms. Fanservice 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.
• Special Effect Failure:
  • 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.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character:
  • Sergei The Smart Guy 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 Badass Bystander 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 Chekhov's Gunman reappearing with the policemen fighting back.