The Invisible

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The Invisible

Alex O'Loughlin, Callum Keith Rennie, Chris Marquette, Justin Chatwin, Marcia Gay Harden

After an attack leaves him in limbo -- invisible to the living and also near death -- a teenager discovers the only person who might be able help him is his attacker.

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  • DrZeek
    October 28, 2009
    DrZeek
    Nick Powell: Mom, I'm dead.

    This movie is terrible. From how the story is put together, to the characters, to the soundtrack that hits you over the head with what the movie is trying to say. I'll spare the details of how I came to watch this film, but suffice it to say the eve...( read more)nt is now at least in the past.

    The story involves a young boy, Nick, about to graduate from high school, very bright, great at all he does, but of course stressed in his life for various reasons. After his best friend is threatened by a bad group of kids lead by a vicious 90 pound girl, Annie, Nick tries to help out, only leading to him getting beaten nearly to death. Although, after being beaten, Nick is thought to be dead by his attackers and is thrown into a safe place, unconscious. The next day Nick walks into school as if nothing happened, but soon realizes that he can't be seen by anyone. Of course, Nick learns that he isn't completely dead and must figure out a way to get people to find his unconscious body.

    The basic premise, at its core, has a bit of intrigue, however it is plagued by terrible dialog, characters, and strange plot occurrences. I think the one thing that kept me in, was waiting to see if one character would ever remove her beanie.

    This movie has no restraint or clues about what subtlety is either. Although Nick is invisible, his interactions with the environment seem real only to revert back to normal in the next shot. I figured this out the first time it was shown to me, but the film feels the need to make sure we see this every time he interacts with the environment. I've already mentioned the soundtrack as well, but I'm gonna do it again, because the song choices that have lyrics reflecting the exact emotions the audience is supposed to be feeling are unintentionally hilarious.

    Did I mention that there is a race against time cop/car chase finale?

    Bad movie.

    Nick Powell: [after failing to commit suicide with a rifile] Shit!
  • JDFortuneFan
    October 4, 2009
    JDFortuneFan
    The Invisible packs high potential but falls a bit short from the suspenseful film it should have been. Maybe Mr. Goyer was too busy writing The Dark Knight and his focus fell off a bit in the direction of The Invisible. If so, he can be forgiven. The plot is intriguing, the a...( read more)cting is well done, but the film falls into teenage love story land and therefore loses the punch it so deserves.
  • purplemegan
    September 2, 2009
    purplemegan
    Didn't like this one. The ending didn't make any sense and was totally messed up. I wanted more of a thriller and this just didn't cut it, it wasn't creepy at all.
  • EarthlyAlien
    March 21, 2009
    EarthlyAlien
    "I'm alive... Holy shit, I'm alive."

    Another one.

    Remake, I mean. And oh man, what a rotten one. If, during its near-death experience, this film had been able to shout for help, it could have told someone that the concept of a near-dead teenager trying to find his own bo...( read more)dy is awesome, but it needs an actual narrative and character development to succeed as a film. The people responsible for the film and literary source it steals from knew that. These don't. So, we get empty characters who seem to care little about their own lives and do little to make us care either. And we get generic film moments like desperate races against time, stunning rescues, and bad guys whose hearts of gold are unearthered.

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    If this film's failing spirit had been able to talk, it might have asked for a villain who's slightly less bleached clean than Margarita Levieva's Annie Newton, the troubled girl on her way into even worse trouble. This is the sort of Disneyfied film that makes its bad girl bad by dressing her in black - with a toque covering her beautiful long locks, of course - and having her steal and beat people up. But she's got a perfect complexion, shows no signs of ever doing drugs (even if her life is hopeless), and - of course - she has that all-important heart of gold. Even though she technically just killed a kid.

    The near-death spirit of The Invisible might also have pled for a storyline, rather than a succession of silly scenes in which our "hero" continues to scream at people throughout the entire film, trying to get them to listen (when he already knows he's a ghost), followed by phoney tension, such as when police and rescue teams think they know where his body is, but neglect to ask the operators of a dam a few metres upstream from where his unconscious body lies to please hold off on opening the dam's spillways for about 20 extra minutes beyond their scheduled opening so as to recover the boy. All of which leads to a ridiculously insolent ending that betrays everything the original stood for. And it was at that point that I wanted to kill the people who made this.

    Marcia Gay Harden can be forgiven for staggering through her thankless role as the mother in an apparent catatonic state. Undoubtedly the screenplay suggested that she act distant to the point of disconnection with reality, but this also must have made getting through this miserable production all the easier for Harden. Justin Chatwin is an absolute joke in this whole thing, for two reasons: his character is a joke and he's not a particularly good actor. As for Levieva, the Russian-born talent, she needs to fire her agent because this isn't the kind of film for her to be in.

    As for those of us who sit through this agonizing, insulting piece of garbage fully conscious, we need to remind ourselves that Hollywood makes dreck like this for the same reason that bugs lay a zillion eggs. In this pretty metaphor the zillion eggs represent the zillion remakes that flood theatres around the world and prevent real work from reaching people. And cinema is made FOR people. Oh, that's right, this isn't really cinema, is it?

    "Mom, I'm dead."
  • irisheyes686
    November 26, 2008
    irisheyes686
    This movie was actually pretty good. It was better than the previews made it out to be. I thought the whole girl falling in love with the guy she almost killed was a little much though.
  • ZakaryasX
    December 20, 2009
    ZakaryasX
    DEFINITELY AN AWESOME WAY BETTER THAN I EXPECTED
  • noertn
    December 8, 2009
    noertn
    the best... chequenla
  • blackeyedsurfer
    December 7, 2009
    blackeyedsurfer
    Made NO sense whatsoever.
  • lobeo
    December 6, 2009
    lobeo
    Kind of an awkward movie. Was hard to decide if I liked it or not. The pace and plot was a little uneven.
  • Pandmaster
    December 1, 2009
    Pandmaster
    Completely epic. I particularly enjoyed the obviousness that it was filmed in Vancouver, and the lack of effort made to make it look like Seattle. The ending blew my mind! I expected Nick and Annie to do the obligatory make-out, or at least become friends! But ...( read more)e dies, which was incredibly sad, and I even borderline cried.
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