The Invasion [Blu-ray]
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Movie Reviews of The Invasion [Blu-ray]
Movie Review: Good popcorn flick
Summary: 4 Stars
I wavered between 3 and 4 stars and decided on 4 because I will be recommending this film to friends and family. It was never an Oscar contender or high art but in my Drive-in days, this would have been a winner. We've seen various iterations of Invasion of the Body Snatchers over the past 50 years so there's no suspense in the basic premise. This version quickly hones in on a mother and son caught up in this horror and their battle to survive. Their battle to survive is very suspenseful. The child actor does a nice job as the son and Nicole Kidman is convincingly fierce as his mother who will do anything to protect him. I'm reminded of Ripley in Aliens, going up against the monster to save the little girl. This film nicely captures the heebie-jeebie factor of being forced to blend in as humans suddenly becoming souless, emotionless killers, in a sense, as the aliens' quest is to take over Earth by killing the humanity inside of us. I liked the ending. And I like that the movie is not gory. Makes it easier to sleep. Movie Review: Really missed the mark here
Summary: 1 Stars
For the most part, I detest hollywood doing remakes of classic films. They almost always lose something in translation, as does this version of The Body Snatchers.
They completely lost the mark here. The camera trickery did not add to the tension, it disarmed it. The flash forwards and flashbacks didn't help to keep the story in line. The opening flashback, we find out later in the film, was not a THE critical moment. For this version I think THE critical moment would have been when Nicold Kidman walks into her son's bedroom and pauses, waiting to discover if he's changed or not. The two face each other for minutes before disclosing anything. Now that would have been the critical moment.
And the ending!!!! Please! Sappy sappy sappy. In each and every other version of this paranoid, claustraphobic thriller the main character ends up succumbing to the force greater than it. What could they have been thinking here?? It's actually an insult to the story.
The original is the best. The third version, with Meg Tilly, is actually quite the thrilling interpretation of the story. The second version was a bit on the lame side, but kept the story. This one lost everything.
I found it interesting that they brought in an actor from the second film to be the wife of an early victim here, but it didn't help.
Do yourself a favor, don't waste your time. See the original or the third version. Those are the best.
Movie Review: the invasion
Summary: 3 Stars
good version of "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" but not as good as the
original. If you look there are even the pods even though it's a virus this time( look at the piece of metal the woman hands the CDC man) but you have to pause the movie at just the right half second.
Movie Review: Past Reviews Snatched This Movie From Viewing
Summary: 4 Stars
For a long time I didn't watch this movie because the reviews said it is really, really bad. But it's really not bad at all. I give it four stars because I keep thinking how much better 'I Am Legend' story is. Movie Review: Pod People Again
Summary: 4 Stars
Each incarnation of the Jack Finney story has been a product of the time inwhich the film was made. The original during the Cold War, the Phil Kaufmann remake during a time of Jonestown and other cults. Now this version in the era of the pandemic. This isn't a bad picture. It just isn't remarkably new. Daniel Craig, while working on this picture, got the word he had been tapped to follow Pierce Brosnan as 007.