- Anvilicious: Blind Obedience is bad. It's bad to be unable to admit fault. Racism and othering are bad. Subtle this film is not.
- Critical Dissonance: Despite the impressive 80% critic score on Rotten Tomatoes, it has a 28% audience score.
- Moral Event Horizon: Tony's willingness to follow the television's instructions are largely reasonable, given the outlandishness of the situation. But giving his own son the Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique was so hard a line that even the typically-meek Scott turns on him.
- Paranoia Fuel: Waking up from a sound sleep to find that your house has been utterly locked down by an outside source while every channel on TV reads "STAY INDOORS AND AWAIT FURTHER INSTRUCTIONS" is rather bad already. Later events - such as saying the food has been contaminated, that someone has been infected, and that one of them is actually a sleeper agent takes this up to eleven.
- Special Effects Failure: The grandfather seizing before vomiting is clearly the same second of footage running back and forth.
- They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: The movie is stated by many to have a really good premise and a promising first half but was unfortunately wasted on moments that killed dramatic tension at the later bits, the movie going from psychological thriller to slasher, and a confusing ending that leaves more questions than answers.
- The Woobie: Beth, the mother. She was ecstatic at Nick returning home, is clearly hurt when Nick and Annji make plans to leave, and her attempt to emulate Nick and Annji's flirtatious behavior with her husband is flatly rebuffed, as Tony is appalled at her making light of the situation.
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