The Invasion
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Movie Reviews of The Invasion
Movie Review: Terrible editing!
Summary: 2 Stars
I did not see the original `Body Snatchers' nor read the book. After seeing this movie, I don't think I would want to. I expected this movie to be scary, suspenseful, and gripping. It wasn't.
I did not like the editing at all. The scenes were cut too fast, moving from one shot to another at a dizzying speed.
I didn't like the beginning of the movie when the Space Shuttle burns on entry and is destroyed. This scene should have been much longer. We should have seen how the alien parasite clung itself to the shuttle. Was it the reason why the shuttle crashed? We should also have seen the crew struggling to fly the Space Shuttle.
Once the Shuttle crashed, the scenes rushed way too fast from identifying the parasite to it infecting people. I just felt the whole movie was rushed.
Seeing Nicole Kidman run away from something at the beginning of the movie just didn't make since. The editor was trying to show us an event in the future to keep us guessing, but this didn't work. The movie should have flowed in a linear manner, not jump from a future event to a present one. This was repeated in several other scenes, and I found this to be very annoying.
The disease is passed by people throwing up. I found this pretty repulsive, especially in the subway scene. Kidman's husband also throws up on her face, yet we see her in the following scene with a clean face and no stains on her shirt--very unbelievable. And what about the stench of the vomit? Kidman then meets up with researchers and eventually with her son--without having taken a bath. Didn't her husband just puke on her? Did no one smell her?
The helicopter scene at the end of the movie was not well done. You could tell it was animation.
Daniel Craig did not do a good job at all. He was more of a supporting actor than a principal one.
At no point throughout this movie did I find myself glued to my seat. There was no suspense; nothing really exciting happening.
The fact that they found a cure so quickly was also unbelievable. We are also not shown the steps taken to find the cure--was way too rushed.
I didn't like the cover design of the DVD either.
The only thing I liked about this movie are the following questions, "what would life be like without humans? If a disease turned us into non-violent people, but unproductive, would that be good or bad? Is life better the way it is, with free-will, or one without free-will and without wars? The philosophy behind the movie is great. The movie itself is mediocre.
Movie Review: carry on humans. nothing to see here.
Summary: 3 Stars
hello fellow earthlings. this is another paranoid abberational diversion constituted by an imaginative but irrational lifeform living amongst us. another regurgitated serving of a spectacular tale that causes unnecessary resistance to our proper evolution.
story alterations:
-main target: beautiful nicole kidman. i'd like to puke on her.
-more action
-more grotesque
-more visual scares and shocks. no psychological terror.
-abundance of vomitting
final synopsis: 3.5 stars. this story is merely a figment of your imagination.
you look tired. better go to sleep.
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.