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The Invasion (2007)

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Reviews Counted:154

Fresh:30

Rotten:124

Average Rating:4.3/10

Consensus: The Invasion is slickly made, but it lacks psychological insight and thrills.

Rated: 15 [See Full Rating] for violence, disturbing images and terror.

Runtime: 1 hr 39 mins

Genre: Horror/Suspense

Theatrical Release:12-10-2007

Synopsis: Academy Award winner Nicole Kidman ("The Hours") and Daniel Craig ("Casino Royale") star in the science fiction action thriller "The Invasion," a nightmarish journey into a world where the only way... Academy Award winner Nicole Kidman ("The Hours") and Daniel Craig ("Casino Royale") star in the science fiction action thriller "The Invasion," a nightmarish journey into a world where the only way to stay alive is to stay awake. The mysterious crash of the space shuttle leads to the terrifying discovery that there is something alien within the wreckage. Those who come in contact with it are changing in ominous and inexplicable ways. Soon Washington, DC psychiatrist Carol Bennell (Nicole Kidman) and her friend, Dr. Ben Driscoll (Daniel Craig), learn the shocking truth about the growing extraterrestrial epidemic: it attacks its victims while they sleep, leaving them physically unchanged but strangely unfeeling and inhuman. As the infection spreads, more and more people are altered and it becomes impossible to know who can be trusted. Now Carol's only hope is to stay awake long enough to find her young son, who may hold the key to stopping the devastating invasion. "The Invasion" also stars Jeremy Northam ("The Tudors," "Gosford Park") and Jeffrey Wright ("Casino Royale," "Angels in America"). The film is directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel ("Downfall") from a screenplay by David Kajganich, based on the novel The Body Snatchers by Jack Finney. Joel Silver (the "Matrix" trilogy) produced the film, with Roy Lee, Doug Davison, Susan Downey, Steve Richards, Ronald G. Smith and Bruce Berman executive producing. The behind-the-scenes creative team was lead by director of photography Rainer Klausmann, production designer Jack Fisk, editors Joel Negron and Hans Funck, costume designer Jacqueline West and composer John Ottman. "The Invasion" is a Warner Bros. Pictures presentation, in association with Village Roadshow Pictures, of a Silver Pictures Production, in association with Vertigo Entertainment. "The Invasion" has been rated PG-13 by the MPAA for "violence, disturbing images and terror." --© Warner Bros. [More]

Starring: Nicole Kidman, Daniel Craig, Jeremy Northam, Jackson Bond

Starring: Nicole Kidman, Daniel Craig, Jeremy Northam, Jackson Bond, Roger Rees, Jeffrey Wright, Susan Floyd, John M. Jackson, Josef Sommer, Robert Stanton, Celia Weston, Jeff Wincott

Director: Oliver Hirschbiegel

Director: Oliver Hirschbiegel
Screenwriter: Dave Kajganich
Producer: Joel Silver
Composer: John Ottman
Studio: Warner Bros.

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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.

Full Review Source: BBC | comment Comment
10/16/07
Paul Arendt
Paul Arendt
BBC
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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.

Full Review Source: Empire Magazine | comment Comment
10/10/07
Simon Braund
Simon Braund
Empire Magazine
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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.

Full Review Source: Total Film | comment Comment
10/10/07
Tom Charity
Tom Charity
Total Film

Watchable but unnecessary.

Full Review Source: Shadows on the Wall | comment Comment
10/18/07
Rich Cline
Rich Cline
Shadows on the Wall

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.

Full Review Source: Daily Telegraph | comment Comment
10/12/07
Tim Robey
Tim Robey
Daily Telegraph
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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.

Full Review Source: Daily Mail [UK] | comment Comment
10/12/07
Christopher Tookey
Christopher Tookey
Daily Mail [UK]

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.

Full Review Source: ViewLondon | comment Comment
10/13/07
Matthew Turner
Matthew Turner
ViewLondon

Like the three movies before it, the only way our heroes can survive is by staying awake. Odds on you won’t.

Full Review Source: Daily Mirror [UK] | comment Comment
10/12/07
Daily Mirror [UK]
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Full Review Source: Screen International | comment Comment
08/25/07
Screen International

This is a by the numbers production, made with about as much emotion and passion as one of the alien made clones.

Full Review Source: KPBS.org | comment Comment
08/25/07
Beth Accomando
Beth Accomando
KPBS.org

Don't join The Hive. Don't become part of The Universal Mind. Stay a violent human with your own selfish agenda.

Full Review Source: FilmsInReview.com | comment Comment
08/20/07
Victoria Alexander
Victoria Alexander
FilmsInReview.com

Essentially, The Invasion has already joined the pod people collective.

Full Review Source: Combustible Celluloid | comment Comment
08/16/07
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Combustible Celluloid

This is the first alien invasion I can remember in which I actually found myself rooting for the aliens.

Full Review Source: Seattle Post-Intelligencer | comment Comment
08/16/07
William Arnold
William Arnold
Seattle Post-Intelligencer

After three successful cinematic renditions of Jack Finney's 1955 sci-fi novel "The Invasion of the Body Snatchers" (the 1978 version with Donald Sutherland being my favourite), they've finally managed to mangle it up.

Full Review Source: Sympatico.ca | comment Comment
08/17/07
Angela Baldassarre
Angela Baldassarre
Sympatico.ca

'The Invasion': Oliver Hirschbiegel's take on Jack Finney's classic story is subtly political, commenting ever so slyly on the apathy and indifference - and the lack of empathy and compassion - that have taken over since 9/11, as well as the sense of enti

Full Review Source: Passionate Moviegoer | comment Comment
08/25/07
Joe Baltake
Joe Baltake
Passionate Moviegoer

Treat yourself to the Donald Sutherland version, plus, his perm is more frightening than anything that happens in Invasion.

Full Review Source: The Scorecard Review | comment Comment
03/03/08
Jeff Bayer
Jeff Bayer
The Scorecard Review

With her line-free mask of a face and unflappable demeanor, Nicole Kidman is an odd standard-bearer for the messy imperfection of the human race; even so, this fourth movie incarnation of Jack Finney's novel is hardly a disaster...

Full Review Source: Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) | comment Comment
08/24/07
John Beifuss
John Beifuss
Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)

This current update is a competent, sufficiently creepy version with an A-list cast that dwarfs its B-movie predecessors by comparison.

Full Review Source: Spectrum (St. George, Utah) | comment Comment
10/22/07
Bruce Bennett
Bruce Bennett
Spectrum (St. George, Utah)

The mismatched blending of Hirschbiegel's low-key horror and the Wachowski Brothers' anything-but-low-key action sequences results in a cinematic dud.

Full Review Source: ReelViews | comment Comment
08/16/07
James Berardinelli
James Berardinelli
ReelViews

Fails to live up to its own aspirations, undermined by misguided attempts to enliven the action with car wrecks and explosions.

Full Review Source: ESplatter | comment Comment
07/14/08
Steve Biodrowski
Steve Biodrowski
ESplatter
 
 
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