History YMMV / HardRain

* RuleOfCool: Most people who've ever been to high school can probably imagine how awesome it would be to drive jetskis through the half-flooded hallways.

* WTHCastingAgency: Creator/RogerEbert said in his review that he just couldn't buy Creator/MorganFreeman as a villain because he was just so nice.

* BrokenBase: The last act of the movie where [[spoiler:The sheriff and his men turn bad and start fighting Jim and Tom]]. Either it spices up the movie and makes the remaining fight scenes more interesting or it feels completely unnecessary and out of character [[spoiler:In addition to killing Jim’s remaining men too anticlimactically]] and makes it tempting to apply EndingAversion to everything after the films first hour after spending so long with [[spoiler:The sheriff and his men as characters the audience was rooting for.]]

* FunnyAneurysmMoment: The comic relief moments of Hank the dam worker (like being caught on the toilet by some floodwater) once [[spoiler:He ends up a ruthless antagonist in the final act.]]

* ShockingSwerve: [[spoiler:The Sheriff, and Hank turning into such ruthless antagonists out to commit murder in the final act can feel this way after so much earlier on made them seem like good men trying to do their best to protect the town, with the sheriff even explicitly refusing an opportunity to loot or vandalize the home of an enemy.]]

* VindicatedByHistory: While being an BoxOfficeBomb, it has been a CultClassic among fans of the action and disaster genres.

** AntiVillain mastermind Jim, played by Creator/MorganFreeman.

** AntiVillain mastermind Jim.

* EvilIsCool: Jim.

** Harold and Doreen, for the comic relief they provide.

* BrokenBase: The last act of the movie where [[spoiler:The sheriff and his men turn bad and start fighting Jim and Tom]]. Either it spices up the movie and makes the remaining digit scenes more interesting or it feels completely unnecessary and out of character [[spoiler:In addition to killing Jim’s remaining men too anticlimactically]] and makes it tempting to apply EndingAversion to everything after the films first hour after spending so long with [[spoiler:The sheriff and his men as characters the audience was rooting for.]]

* CrowningMomentOfAwesome / RuleOfCool: Most people who've ever been to high school can probably imagine how awesome it would be to drive jetskis through the half-flooded hallways.
* CrowningMomentOfFunny: [[HenpeckedHusband Henry]] and [[Creator/BettyWhite Doreen]] rowing away from the bad guys.
--->'''Doreen:''' Row faster! Stop lily-dipping! Get us away from here before those bastards change their minds!
--->(Henry sighs, gives her an exasperated look, and begins to turn the boat around.)
--->'''Doreen:''' Henry! What are you doing?
--->'''Henry:''' I'm going to row back there and see if they'll shoot you! Or me, it's fine either way!
--->'''Doreen''' (shocked): Henry!
--->'''Henry:''' Do you want me to get us out of here?
--->'''Doreen:''' Of course!
--->'''Henry:''' [[PrecisionFStrike Then shut the fuck up!]]
* WTHCastingAgency: Creator/RogerEbert said in his review that he just couldn't buy Creator/MorganFreeman as a villain because he was just so nice.

--->'''Henry:''' [[PrecisionFStrike Then shut the fuck up!]]

* CompleteMonster: [[spoiler: The sheriff]]. His MoralEventHorizon moment is the "They're witnesses" line, and when he's reminded that if the dam collapses it will obliterate the entire town, his automatic reply is "Screw the town." Wayne also qualifies, as far as we know; the only things we ever see him do are crudely mock his colleagues, lock Tom in and leave him to die, readily agree to murder people for money, and chain Karen up and attempt to rape her before leaving her to drown (although the last one doesn't go how he planned it...)

* CrowningMomentOfFunny: [[HenpeckedHusband Henry]] and [[BettyWhite Doreen]] rowing away from the bad guys.

* CompleteMonster: [[spoiler: The sheriff]]. His MoralEventHorizon moment is the "They're witnesses" line, and when he's reminded that if the dam collapses it will obliterate the entire town, his automatic reply is [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney "Screw the town."]] Wayne also qualifies, as far as we know; the only things we ever see him do are crudely mock his colleagues, lock Tom in and leave him to die, readily agree to murder people for money, and chain Karen up and attempt to rape her before leaving her to drown (although the last one doesn't go how he planned it...)

* AlasPoorVillain:
** Phil. He's really not a bad guy, and he gets fatally wounded by another villain for being unwilling to shoot Tom. The bullets don't quite kill Phil, though; he gets finished off by a later surge of water. When he sees it coming, Phil clings to a [[Literature/TheBible Bible]] in his last moments.
** Also, Kenny could arguably fall into this category, since he really wants to prove himself to Jim.

** Phil. He's really not a bad guy, and he gets fatally wounded by another villain for being unwilling to shoot Tom. The bullets don't quite kill Phil, though; he gets finished off by a later surge of water. When he sees it coming, Phil clings to a [[TheBible Bible]] in his last moments.