The Invasion (2007)

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• John M

  
  I enjoyed this and thought Kidman and Craig did a good job. This is the third or fourth version of this story and while not the best I would say its not he worst. I liked the changes and thought the very beginning of the film, prob the first whole half wa good as the aliens took over… More
  I enjoyed this and thought Kidman and Craig did a good job. This is the third or fourth version of this story and while not the best I would say its not he worst. I liked the changes and thought the very beginning of the film, prob the first whole half wa good as the aliens took over and Kidmans character slowly learned the trurth. The second half goes to action oriented and takes away some of the thrill but still a decent ride none the less.

• Phil H

  
  No where near as good as the original Donald Sutherland version. Flashy car chases and lots of running don't make a film intense or scary, there's no suspense here. The invaders are just a virus with no real point behind them (would have been better if they were actual… More
  No where near as good as the original Donald Sutherland version. Flashy car chases and lots of running don't make a film intense or scary, there's no suspense here. The invaders are just a virus with no real point behind them (would have been better if they were actual aliens) there's no build up, it just dives straight into it and the ending is a total wash out all tied up with a nice little bow, what was the point?

• Martin S

  
  Well this stinks... The only good thing about this, and the only reason people watch it is Nicole Kidman. But she does not make up for the flaws... And there are quite a few. Just a really boring movie.

• Matt G

  
  Though it's no work of art, this remake of Invasion of the Body Snatchers is a solid thriller featuring fun performances by Nicole Kidman and Daniel Craig.

• Dead A

  
  Jackson Bond was so cute. I liked this movie. It was really a good one.

• Anthony L

  
  The least successful of the remakes and no where near as good as the original. The budget, it seems, was blown on Kidman's fee, not enough money for a decent script writer after that - and what for? A cardboard cut-out of her would have been sufficient and more convincing. The… More
  The least successful of the remakes and no where near as good as the original. The budget, it seems, was blown on Kidman's fee, not enough money for a decent script writer after that - and what for? A cardboard cut-out of her would have been sufficient and more convincing. The happy ending says all you need to know about Oliver Hirschbiegel's understanding of the concept. Utter garbage!

• Richard C

  
  B+

• Candy R

  
  There is an alien virus that is taking over the world. It's a bit like an invasion of body snatches. People become infected and mutate when they sleep. Nicole's son seems to be immune and could cure the population. Good sci-fi movie. A bit like I am Legend.

• EightThirty .

  
  28/03/2010 (TELEVISION) I love running away movies, the fear of getting caught is a pretty cool rush and this has got a good dose of 'Let's get the heck out of here!' During this alien flick you will experience a state of mental uncertainty and excitement as decisions… More
  28/03/2010 (TELEVISION) I love running away movies, the fear of getting caught is a pretty cool rush and this has got a good dose of 'Let's get the heck out of here!' During this alien flick you will experience a state of mental uncertainty and excitement as decisions are accompanied by a degree of apprehension and anxiety. Surprisingly good. I wasn't in the mood for anything and caught this on TV 'cause I was too lazy to move. Its funny, before I rated this movie, it had a big red 'NOT INTERESTED' and now its got a 3.5 rating which is pretty good in my books.

• Conner R

  
  It's got nothing on the '78 version, but it's not a worthless attempt at adapting a classic idea. This is a little bit more predictable and viewer friendly. It felt so much like an M. Night Shyamalan film, just a little bit less of an artistic approach. At the end of… More
  It's got nothing on the '78 version, but it's not a worthless attempt at adapting a classic idea. This is a little bit more predictable and viewer friendly. It felt so much like an M. Night Shyamalan film, just a little bit less of an artistic approach. At the end of the day, this is just an inferior product.

• Dean !

  
  Another interpretation of Invasion of the body snatchers. This was an ok thriller, well made with a good cast. It just lacks any real punch, it's not tense, gripping or scary in any way. A missed opportunity really. I'd recommend The Faculty instead as that is a much more… More
  Another interpretation of Invasion of the body snatchers. This was an ok thriller, well made with a good cast. It just lacks any real punch, it's not tense, gripping or scary in any way. A missed opportunity really. I'd recommend The Faculty instead as that is a much more fun film, also influenced by the body snatchers.

• Lewis C

  
  Besides Nicole Kidman in some see-through sleepwear, there's not much of The Invasion that I would care to experience again.The movie is ham-fisted with its message, uninspired, and worst of all, dull. The plot was about as predictable as it could be. Any suspense that I felt… More
  Besides Nicole Kidman in some see-through sleepwear, there's not much of The Invasion that I would care to experience again.The movie is ham-fisted with its message, uninspired, and worst of all, dull. The plot was about as predictable as it could be. Any suspense that I felt was solely based on my reluctance to see anyone's mouth or beverage vomited in. There were no thrills and no chills, but lots of boredom.

• Film C

  
  i love this movie i thought it was a really good remake and its really worth a watch

• xGary X

  
  Washington psychiatrist Nicole Kidman begins to notice changes in her clients which leads her to believe that the human race is being over run by an alien intelligence. In yet another remake (of a remake) of a classic, The Invasion is guilty of the usual Hollywood crimes of putting… More
  Washington psychiatrist Nicole Kidman begins to notice changes in her clients which leads her to believe that the human race is being over run by an alien intelligence. In yet another remake (of a remake) of a classic, The Invasion is guilty of the usual Hollywood crimes of putting flash above substance and dumbing down. Although the film looks good, the director is in far too much of a hurry to cut to the chase (literally) at the expense of tension or the build up of suspense, and there is far too much pseudo science and not enough invention in its approach to the concept. I'm in no way a fan of Nicole Kidman, but she's not too bad here (although my cynical side would say that she's had a lot of practice acting like an emotionless drone) but she's still not a strong enough presence to carry a film on her own in the way she is expected to here as Daniel Craig's character is criminally underused. The concept of replica human beings grown from pods is also far more horrific than people just getting all slimy in their sleep, and the way the originals allowed the audience to ponder the idea of a peaceful existence at the expense of individuality and free will is completely dispensed with to be replaced with the dim-witted "we're evil aliens and we're going to kill your babies" plot we have here. So all we're left with is a bog standard chase thriller and taken as that it is efficiently handled, but even that much is scuppered by one of the worst "Is that it??!" endings I have ever had the misfortune to experience. On the whole, a typical Hollywood remake. Doh.

• Emily A

  
  I quite liked this movie, and I think that playing the hysterical and breathless, quietly panicking matriarch is Nicole Kidman's forte. This plot is simple and straight forward, and doesn't rely on a tremendous amount of action, but gets it going quite quickly and artfully.… More
  I quite liked this movie, and I think that playing the hysterical and breathless, quietly panicking matriarch is Nicole Kidman's forte. This plot is simple and straight forward, and doesn't rely on a tremendous amount of action, but gets it going quite quickly and artfully. The pervading us vs. them paranoia seeps through this movie very well, and instills the dread necessary to thoroughly creep out the audience. I don't think they needed to rely as much on special effects as they did (the scares are driven by the plot, not by its visuals), but they did a lot to add to the story. The alien invaders in this film are a very formidable villain, attacking and menacing the human hosts from all angles: you're scared to reveal your own anguish, you're scared to trust anyone else, you're scared of not knowing what they're up to, and, if you get infected, you're scared to go to sleep. Apart from the abrupt and ludicrously simple way the crisis is ultimately averted, this movie is really well done.

• paul s

  
  If you compare this film to the other Kidman vehicle "Cellular" this is a masterpiece. However, that mainly shows just how bad and implausable the aforementioned film really was. This film has holes, a totally unnecessary final chase scene, and some questionable editing… More
  If you compare this film to the other Kidman vehicle "Cellular" this is a masterpiece. However, that mainly shows just how bad and implausable the aforementioned film really was. This film has holes, a totally unnecessary final chase scene, and some questionable editing however... there are moments when you can really feel the claustrophobic nature of the subject matter, and at it's core is once again (as in I Am Legend) wether the hive mentality is an aborration or possibly the next step in evolution. Unfortunately, it is a bit heavy handed here - choosing to hit you over the head with the "message" instead of letting it evolve into our consciousness. Surely not as creepy as the Sutherland version, this still managed to carry off the suspicion "is he one of them". I also thoroughly enjoyed Roger Reese of the Royal Shakespear Company as the Russian ambassador, accent totally spot on.

• Lorenzo v

  
  <i>"Do not trust anyone. Do not show emotion. Do not fall asleep."</i> A mysterious, mind-altering epidemic has infected humankind, and when a Washington, D.C. psychiatrist discovers that the outbreak seems to be extraterrestrial in origin, she struggles to… More
  <i>"Do not trust anyone. Do not show emotion. Do not fall asleep."</i> A mysterious, mind-altering epidemic has infected humankind, and when a Washington, D.C. psychiatrist discovers that the outbreak seems to be extraterrestrial in origin, she struggles to save her son from infection in this sci-fi thriller starring Nicole Kidman and Daniel Craig, and directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel (Das Experiment). The space shuttle has crashed, and investigators assigned to explore the wreckage have found something unimaginable in the debris -- something from the deepest reaches of outer space. Everyone who comes into contact with it soon begins to transform in ways that can't be explained by modern science. While their physical appearance remains completely unaltered, their emotions seem to be drained and their actions become strangely inhuman. The only people who know the truth about this extraterrestrial epidemic are Washington, D.C. psychiatrist Carol Bennell (Kidman) and her longtime friend Dr. Ben Driscoll (Craig). It seems that the alien virus attacks people in their sleep, and by the time they awaken, the transformation has already taken place. The contagion is spreading rapidly, and as more people fall victim to its eerie effects by the hour, it becomes impossible to differentiate the infected from those who can still be trusted. When Carol realizes that her young son may hold the only hope for saving the human race, she struggles to remain awake long enough to find the boy and prevent planet Earth from becoming host to a terrifying new breed of extraterrestrials. Based on the book The Body Snatchers by Jack Finney, The Invasion was written by David Kajganich and co-stars Jeffrey Wright and Jeremy Northam. <u><b>Review</b></u> If you were one of those who complained at the way "War of the Worlds" ended wait until you watch this movie. It gives "movies with happy, convenient and easy endings" a bad name. Why make us go through so much if at the end all they're going to say is: "everybody took their vaccine and got cured, roll the credits" ? The cast of this movie is pretty good but unfortunately its biggest weakness is that it is not very scary. After some 30 years I still haven't forgotten the very last scene of the second version with Donald Sutherland pointing his finger at Brook Adams. Good luck trying to remember this version's ending in a couple of weeks. It could and should have been much, much better.

• Dan S

  
  A collosal misfire. Kidman is wasted in a film that doesn't care to explain its alien invasion origins, nor why aliens chase after people once they are infected (what's the point?). There's a lot of bad character decisions to go around, not to mention the share of… More
  A collosal misfire. Kidman is wasted in a film that doesn't care to explain its alien invasion origins, nor why aliens chase after people once they are infected (what's the point?). There's a lot of bad character decisions to go around, not to mention the share of pathetic dialogue and terrible plotting. Jackson Bond is one of the worst child actors I've seen in a while, his movements and the way he delivers his lines, just horrendous. Overall, a pretty poorly made movie.

• Aaron N

  
  man: You can fool them Carol: What? man: Don't show emotion, then they can't tell who's who. Here is the fourth version of the Body Snatchers novel, it stars Nicole Kidman and Daniel Craig and could have been so much better. A bad case of having a better trailer than… More
  man: You can fool them Carol: What? man: Don't show emotion, then they can't tell who's who. Here is the fourth version of the Body Snatchers novel, it stars Nicole Kidman and Daniel Craig and could have been so much better. A bad case of having a better trailer than movie. It was directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel, who made some fame with the film Downfall, and was brought in for his creative process on this new remake. When his version was turned in, the studios felt it was to smart with not enough oomph, and so the solution was to bring in the Wachowski brothers to rewrite some parts of the script and their protege James McTiegue to direct the re-shoots. The results are okay, and leave me to wonder what the original cut will look like, which will probably be seen eventually on DVD Note: never mind the last sentence. This version involves a spaceship crash landing back onto earth, with some contaminated materials. Enter Jeremy Northam, who has a good creepy but non-threatening look, as a G-man in charge of investigating the crash. He of course comes in contact with a sample and...change occurs. Nicole Kidman plays Northam's ex-wife, a psychologist along with her doctor friend played by Daniel Craig. Slowly a "flu" starts to take hold of the cities, and people start to change... The problem with this movie is that it plays like a video game version of the novel. With heavy scenes of exposition leading to the added-in action scenes. It's clear where the Wachowski stuff is, because it involves speeches similar to the kind of dialog the Architect would deliver, dealing with the state of the world and being somewhat preachy, as well as a number of moments where actions are dictated and done at the same time. Its annoying because there is not a real build up to much of the creepiness or action. There is no real suspicion of possible alien threats, its just clear from the start that aliens are taking over. Plus, when they do, we don't get any sense of a plan, they just take over and start acting like zombies. Much of the story structure is questionable, I mean Nicole Kidman is both married to the lead alien drone and the mother of the one person who is immune, that's bad storytelling. There are a few good moments, possibly hinting at the directors original ideas. There is also a lot of style to the film as a whole along with a good score, which fits well to having the slickness of video game cut scenes. My other main gripe comes from the ending. Without spoiling things, I'll just say it seems too easy. What does help is the actors. Nicole Kidman does a good job, despite some audible moments of her accent changing. Daniel Craig has a good amount of charisma playing other roles, which will help not solidify him as Bond for life. Jeffrey Wright is in a plot advancing role which would be bad accept for the fact that he's Jeffrey Wright. And even the actor playing Kidman's son is pretty good. Even with a lot of the obvious problems, this is still a decently made and good looking, sci-fi flick, that works well for summer audiences, despite the unfortunate need to spice it up with action scenes and clunky exposition. Tucker: When you wake up, you'll feel exactly the same.

• Jose Z

  
  Its a good movie, maybe it could be better. It has really good suspense and mystery and some moments of action. The first part is better than the second that I feel it a bit exaggerated. Very good cast. Nicole Kidman with a good performance, Daniel Craig role was also convincing and… More
  Its a good movie, maybe it could be better. It has really good suspense and mystery and some moments of action. The first part is better than the second that I feel it a bit exaggerated. Very good cast. Nicole Kidman with a good performance, Daniel Craig role was also convincing and the little kid Jackson Bond was very good also. My conclusion is that this is a movie worthy to take a look at.

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