The Invisible
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Movie Reviews of The Invisible
Movie Review: The Unwatchable
Summary: 1 Stars
I did not think this movie was ever going to end. Please explain to me how a 90 lb high school girl can physically intimidate a gang of thugish high school boys , a violent ex con, and out wit the entire seatle police department. This movie was ridiculous. It had a great concept but the story was contrived and poorly written. Dont waste your time.
Movie Review: so-so teen thriller
Summary: 2 Stars
**1/2
"The Invisible" employs a premise whose cinematic pedigree extends all the way back to "Carnival of Souls" in 1962 and which reached its apogee of commercial success with "The Sixth Sense" in 1999. The idea goes something like this: a character is killed but returns to the land of the living, initially unaware that he or she is already dead. Usually this involves not being able to communicate with the people around him, a situation that can lead to a great deal of frustration for the undead individual involved.
To its credit, "The Invisible" has come up with a nifty little twist on the formula that adds a note of beat-the-clock urgency to the narrative (I won`t spell out what that addition is for those who haven`t already seen the movie). Suffice it to say, Nick Powell (Justin Chatwin) is the high school boy who, after being beaten and left for dead by a gang of social misfits, mysteriously returns in non-corporeal form to observe the authorities' search for his body and for those responsible for his disappearance.
While the idea behind "The Invisible" is worked out with a certain amount of complexity and flair, there's no getting around the fact that all that teenage angst stuff becomes a trifle wearisome and annoying after awhile. In addition, the dialogue, acting, directing and soundtrack are pretty much straight off the studio factory assembly-line. In all fairness, however, it should be noted that the movie does manage to work its way to a pretty cool ending, lifting the film slightly above the ordinary, at least in the closing stretches.
Movie Review: The Invisible
Summary: 3 Stars
This movie was in the same genre as The Sixth Sense, but neverless well done. Again, I bought the movie because Alex O'Loughlin was in it and even though his role was relatively small, he was great. The story was good, not great, because it had been done before, it was light watching. Movie Review: Will somebody please pass the tissues already?
Summary: 4 Stars
For the first few minutes of The Invisible, if you're anything like me, you'll spend it racking what (little in my case) brains you have to try and figure out who the actors are. But by the end of the movie, you're too busy trying to hide your face and figure out exactly where you started crying to care anymore.
The Invisible is about a talented young man, Nick, who has a promising career in front of him when he gets out of school and a writer's course in London, if he could get away from his mother's ever smothering prescence to get on the plane. Annie dresses in black, and tucks up all her gorgeous hair underneath a black beanie and has a wicked (step)mother (?) and a little brother who she quite positively adores. Watch out for the scene where Annie reveals she HAS hair - a scene that is really enlightening and leaves her looking like a young Shakira.
Annie also has a much older tattooed boyfriend, who has a history with the police, and when she gets over enthusiastic on a crime spree, he shops her to the police anonymously. Annie suspects everybody who holds a grudge against her (apart from the obvious) and ends up giving Nick a beating that SHE won't ever forget.
From here, we tread on Ghost territory. But for anyone who previously loved Ghost (me), this wipes away every fragment of memory about that movie. For Nick's in limbo - stuck between one world and the next. And he needs help.
If you're expecting a teenage horror flick, go see another movie. This is NOT your stereotypical teenage horror flick. This movie actually has a heart at the centre of it, and isn't afraid to show it.
The Invisible, in my opinion, was amazing. In the UK it was released as the director's cut, with some additional scenes. The two actors - Justin Chatwin as Nick and Margarita Levieva as Annie - were simply amazing in two very demanding roles. Margarita reminded me so much of Shakira in the second half of the film, when she has her hair out from under that awful beanie hat, and in the first half, she reminds me of Jessica Alba.
I cry at nearly everything - I've been known to cry at Neighbours, I can't watch My Girl anymore, and don't even get me started on Beaches or Mask, cos I can't stop crying enough to see what happens at the end. I reckon I started crying about 10-15 minutes before the end on this, but I don't really remember. All I remember was that my face was rather wet, and I was trying to hide my face until I could run to the toilet and dry my eyes. Highly embarrassing. And it was all I could do to stop myself from thinking about it afterwards and blubbing again!
I raved about this at work after seeing it, and want my own copy to watch again. I'll cry again but I subjected myself to Beaches three times (and cried all three times), and I have the Helen Daniels death from Neighbours on DVD. Bring on the tissues, cos the bad reviews are wrong.
Movie Review: A Schlock-Fest Mess
Summary: 1 Stars
If you were a film maker and happened upon a bad premise that ended just as bad as it started, you'd probably want to hide. And thus, I believe, is where THE INVISIBLE received its true title.
Based EXTREMELY loosely on the 2002 Swedish thriller DEN OSYNLIGE, The Invisible is so wrought with problems as to be sadly laughable.
First let's look at the premise of the film. A nearly murdered boy named Nick (Justin Chatwin, Weeds) comes back to `life' ...but doesn't. He's a ghost of himself but doesn't know why, nor does the viewing audience. Perhaps he's being taught some ethereal lesson? Who knows?
Second is the hot-tough-chick who `kills' Nick named Annie (Margarita Levieva). She's battling demons both in her private life and her school, finding trouble wherever it may lay. And when she thinks she's killed Nick, she suddenly grows a conscious. Why she does is, again, unclear. But, oh, there's the fact that this troubled girl who `killed' this fellow school mate can suddenly hear him, too. Again, we're unsure why this is. One would think that Nick's mom (Marcia Gay Harden, Into the Wild) would be the one to hear her own son. After all, she has a genetic connection to him and would probably be the one most likely to hear his near-death pleas. But ...no.
Third is the woefully lame ending. Why Nick's mother would allow his would-be killer into his hospital room is beyond ludicrous. And the fact that she laid down and `poof!' Nick is once again `alive' is pure schlock to the highest degree.
One would think that Director David S. Goyer would come up with something powerful and moving, especially when you consider he did some amazing writing work on films such as Dark City, Blade and Batman Begins. But ...no. I guess they all can't be winners. I bet Mr. Goyer wishes he were invisible after the release of this mess.
P.S. Also, when some guys move Nick's 'body', it makes ZERO sense since they leave it out in the open versus where it was, which was a place that had already been searched and was hidden from view.