Watchable but unnecessary.
The Invasion (2007)
Runtime: 1 hr 39 mins
Genre: Horror/Suspense
Starring: Nicole Kidman, Daniel Craig, Jeremy Northam, Jackson Bond, Roger Rees
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Having established an effectively creepy mood in the first half, the film eventually degenerates into a muddled mess, with Nicole and Daniel Craig dodging zombies while popping amphetamines in a desperate effort to stay awake. We know how they feel.
Hirschbiegel's troubled remake has several good scenes and is by no means a disaster but it's ultimately disappointing thanks to poor editing and clumsy writing.
THERE is only one reason why a film company won’t show their big new release to the critics – because they fear it will get panned.
Novelist Jack Finney's body snatchers have appeared in some fine movies, but the only disturbing-looking thing here is what they've done to Nicole Kidman's lips.
Like the three movies before it, the only way our heroes can survive is by staying awake. Odds on you won’t.
Kidman gives her most personality-free performance as a psychiatrist whose estranged husband (Jeremy Northam) starts behaving suspiciously by becoming a better father to his son (Jackson Bond). How spooky is that? The answer is: not even slightly.
A strong, proven premise, drained of almost all feeling and personality. Hirschbiegel’s Hollywood debut sporadically grips – but like Kidman and Craig’s characters, you’ll most likely end up battling to stay awake.
If not a train-wreck, this is certainly more than a fender-bender. In a world overflowing with targets for a satirical pasting, we needed something a lot sharper than this.
This has to be the lamest alien invasion movie since the killer tomatoes attacked.
The incredibly erratic structure - undoubtedly a result of the notorious reshoots - ultimately dulls the impact of the movie's overtly effective attributes...
Treat yourself to the Donald Sutherland version, plus, his perm is more frightening than anything that happens in Invasion.
The Invasion saps all the spirit out of what once was a classic alien saga.
The Invasion moves in too many conventional directions, its unwillingness to take chances proving its ultimate downfall.
Reflete a impassividade de seus vilões, já que desenvolve sua narrativa potencialmente tensa de maneira insossa e pouco envolvente.
The film as a whole is a failure, but additionally, it's also a mess of unedited or badly edited scenes.
Depressing proof of how Hollywood movies have just grown worse since the 1970's . . .
The Invasion is filled with lapses in logic. Most sense probably was cut during the many re-edits, but there is evidence Dave Kajganich's script had little sense to begin with.
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