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The Invisible (2007)
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Reviews Counted:55
Fresh:11
Rotten:44
Average Rating:4.1/10
Consensus: Dull and confusing execution makes this ghost story utterly forgettable and unintentionally funny.
Runtime: 1 hr 38 mins
Genre: Horror/Suspense
Synopsis: The spirit of a semi-dead boy makes good in this WB-network-flavored tale, which is an adaptation of the young-adult novel by Swedish author Mats Wahl. A privileged and not very well-liked senior... The spirit of a semi-dead boy makes good in this WB-network-flavored tale, which is an adaptation of the young-adult novel by Swedish author Mats Wahl. A privileged and not very well-liked senior in his Seattle high school, brooding poet Nick (Justin Chatwin) winds up fingered for ratting out tough girl Annie (Margarita Levieva) to the cops for a jewelry heist. Soon his spirit is running loose trying to connect with the people around him, but only animals seem to notice; everyone else just goes about their business. Meanwhile, his body is lying concealed in a sewer tunnel and Annie is the only one "invisible" enough to understand his pain. There's a little blood here and there but overall this little TWILIGHT ZONE-ish tale is perfectly fine for the whole family, with some moral lessons about responsibility and the importance of emotional honesty. There's enough damp Seattle mood to keep one watching, and Levieva brings a wealth of charisma and charm to her street-urchin role. Lots of great mopey alterna-rock on the soundtrack from the likes of Death Cab for Cutie, TV On the Radio, and Broken Social Scene keep the teen angst ratcheted to a sufficiently operatic high throughout. [More]
Starring: Maggie Ma, Michelle Harrison, Justin Chatwin, Marcia Gay Harden
Starring: Maggie Ma, Michelle Harrison, Justin Chatwin, Marcia Gay Harden, Chris Marquette, Margarita Levieva, Andrew Francis
Director: David S. Goyer
Director: David S. Goyer
Screenwriter: Mick Davis
Producer: Gary Barger, Roger Birnbaum
Composer: Marco Beltrami
Screenwriter: Mick Davis, Christine Roum
Studio: Touchstone Pictures
Reviews for The Invisible
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...has been designed to appeal solely to the coveted "tween" demographic...
There's some interesting ideas afoot, but there's also a struggle as to which to direction it wants to head.
...a quietly sad and lonely film about quietly sad and lonely people.
A mash-up of Ghost and The O.C. with a point-of-view directed with uncompromising resolve at the protagonist's navel.
The Invisible plays like a self-indulgent adolescent wish-fulfillment fantasy.
Thought-provoking, philosophical and always interesting, "The Invisible" is likely to remain that way, particular when Spidey swings on to the big screen. It's too bad that this well-wrought, intelligent movie may not find an audience %u2013 perhaps a DVD
Contains an intriguing idea, brought only sporadically to life by director David S. Goyer
The Invisible lives down to its name--this is a visually forgettable flick. More subpar than supernatural.
Never manages to dig out any real depth; rather, it feels like it was adapted straight from a paean to adolescent woes scrawled by a tenth grader in a spiral notebook.
Teen angst is teen angst whether it's DOA or MIA, and c'mon, if you really want to go all Swede-emo on us, you're always going to run up against the immovable cinematic woegasm that was Ingmar Bergman. Never a smart move, that.
My screening presented the final reel upside down and backward; no difference whatsoever.
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