The Darkest Hour

"The Darkest Hour" tidak ditayangkan untuk para kritikus, dan menuai banyak ulasan negatif. Rotten Tomatoes memberikan skor 12% berdasarkan ulasan 57 kritikus. Film ini dikritik dalam aspek "flatlining screenplay and the absence of even a single compelling character" as well as for being "a depressing failure of imagination". Budd Wilkins menulis di "Slant Magazine" menyebutkan bahwa "a dimwitted 3D sci-fi travesty" dan mengomplain melalui pernyataan, "Indifferently structured, Jon Spaihts's lame-brained script knows no narrative contrivance it doesn't love and, what's worse, blows its expositional load in the first 10 minutes, bringing together a quintet of cardboard cutout leads." Di box office, film ini lumayan sukses, hanya menghasilkan dua kali lipat dari anggaran produksi.