The Invisible Man: Season One
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Movie Reviews of The Invisible Man: Season One
Movie Review: About time!
Summary: 5 Stars
It's about time that this cool show is finally out on DVD here in the US! Now, they just need to release season 2!Movie Review: At long last!
Summary: 5 Stars
I am so very happy that this wonderful series is finally becoming available to those fans in the United States. It was on the SciFi channel when "SciFi Friday" was great. I always looked forward to Friday night when I could sit down, relax and watch The Invisible Man, Farscape and Stargate SG-1. Three incredible programs all in the same night. I can only hope that someday we will be lucky enough to see this kind of quality programming again. In the meantime I will watch my reruns of all three and wait eagerly for season 2 of The Invisible Man.Movie Review: Yes!!!! Finally!!!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
Somtimes the powers that be in the entertainment industry just throw me into such a twirl that I come out and my head is spinning and I'm wondering what the (bleep) are they thinking? Cancelling this show and greenlighting some fluffy piece of crap? Mind-boggling. Okay, its Friday night and I'm excited because for two whole hours I know I'm going to be pinned in front of the television watching SciFi showing two of the BEST shows on television: The Invisible Man and Farscape. The Invisible Man was that rare gem where the writing, directing, cast, acting and concept actually came together in producing unbelievable television!!! What do we have now? Reality television? Yuck!!!!! And the thing that kills me is that The Invisible Man was cancelled while it was in its prime and SciFi refused to let it live on!! I no longer watch SciFi...all the good stuff is gone. But I am very, very, completely happy that this show is finally coming out on DVD!!!! Hopefully, the 2nd season will make it to DVD as well. I do miss I-Man, but, now, I can relive this amazing series in all of its glory!!!!!Movie Review: Appearing to DVD - FINALLY!
Summary: 5 Stars
I gotta say I was losing hope, but kept with the petitions and everything, FINALLY Sci-Fi listens! Luckily in good relations with Vincent Ventressca and others who were involved with the show, it's FINALLY being released on DVD! For whatever reason Sci-fi had a bone to pick with the show, should have been released a long time ago... It really was a show if given a chance and maybe shown a year or two later could have had a much better chance, and the worst part was the now gone UPN was willing to pick it up but Sci-fi simply wanted it dead.
Anyways - this was one of my favorite shows when it first came out while I was in HS. And remains. I even modeled my hair and style after Darien Fawkes, I always had a similar one before but man just made it more fun. He had a great personal style and the hair became another character! =D
The characters, writing and acting made the show. Fawkes and Hobbes was an incredible duo by the 2nd season heh, Paul Ben Victor (Hobbes) and Vincent Ventressca (Fawkes) just had an infectious tongue and cheek chemistry really one of the greatest on screen duos of recent years they complimented eachother so well. It was so sad to see I-Man disappear...
The acting was underrated and heh Ventressca just was SO great, his sarcastic dry wit, and the things said without words. The whole cast.
I cannot wait till March it's way too far away lol. Nor can I wait for the great 2nd season! I guess I'll have to rely on my ancient VHS tapes I still have of only a dozen or so episodes! =D
Movie Review: FINALLY!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
After seeing so many poor or banal sci-fi series released on DVD, I was upset that the Sci-Fi Channel's THE INVISIBLE MAN series was not amongst them (at least not in the US anyway... it's been available for years on Region 2 DVD's), but now, at long last, it's coming! This is by far the best show that the Sci-Fi Channel has ever created (aside from the great BATTLESTAR GALACTICA) and it has been deserving of reruns at the VERY least, but other less interesting and less entertaining shows have been clogging up Sci-Fi's airwaves (STARGATE series, I'm looking at you!).
But onto the show itself. Darien Fawkes (the underappreciated Vincent Ventresca) is a thief who is finally caught and put in prison. He's looking at a life sentence, but his brother comes to his "rescue" of sorts when he offers him a deal: Testing an experimental gland implant in the brain that will release a chemical nicknamed "Quicksilver" that coats the skin for a brief period of time that bends light around the subject, allowing them to become invisible to the naked eye. Darien accepts the deal, but we know what road good intentions lead to. Fawkes' brother is double-crossed and killed by his assistant Arnaud DeFehrn (the wonderfully sleazy Joel Bissonette), and Fawkes is stuck with the experimental gland before it's perfected. The gland has a potentially fatal flaw which is that if used for too long of a period of time, the user (in this case, Fawkes) will experience what is called "Quicksilver Madness" which he experiences psychotic and sociopathic tendencies. Fawkes is recruited by "The Agency", a covert ops organization that answers only to The President, run by a perenially frustrated bean-counter usually referred to as "The Official" or "The Fat Man" (the hilarious Eddie Jones) and his yes-man Eberts (the also-hilarious Michael McCafferty). Fawkes' condition is watched over by the lovely Claire "The Keeper" Keeply (beautiful and dry-witted Shannon Kenny), who must regularly give him injections of a counter-agent that wards off the Quicksilver Madness, and is determined to find a way to remove the gland from Darien without the procedure killing him.
The show also gives us a brilliant buddy cop story with Fawkes partnered with Agent Bobby Hobbes (the wonderful and easily recognizable Paul Ben-Victor), a self-professed ladies man and martial arts master, who also may be suffering from schizophrenia that may be fueling these delusions of grandeur (or are they delusions?). The chemistry that is developed between Fawkes and Hobbes is just amazing, and it becomes one of the high points of the show.
One of the other high points is the amazing special effects. When Fawkes goes invisible (and vice versa), the transition is totally seamless. It was this level of achievement that unfortunately brought this show to an all-too premature end because it was just too expensive to keep up that level.
Overall, this is a really great and really fun show that just ended way too soon but it finally is back to watch on this DVD series!