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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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'I'm so afraid I'm gonna fall asleep,' Nicole Kidman says... as if she were reading my mind, for I was thinking at that exact moment, 'I think this movie is gonna put me to sleep.' Weird, huh?

Full Review Source: Flick Filosopher | comment Comment
08/16/07
MaryAnn Johanson
MaryAnn Johanson
Flick Filosopher

Except for one terrifically adroit sequence in a subway, there is nothing understated about The Invasion.

Full Review Source: Wall Street Journal | comment Comment
08/16/07
Joanne Kaufman
Joanne Kaufman
Wall Street Journal

just a TV movie with talented actors, a zombie movie without blood, a dead-eyed body with human beings trapped inside

Full Review Source: Filmcritic.com | comment Comment
08/16/07
Jesse Hassenger
Jesse Hassenger
Filmcritic.com

Gratuitously violent [and] soullessly brain dead.

Full Review Source: Salon.com | comment Comment
08/16/07
Mary Elizabeth Williams
Mary Elizabeth Williams
Salon.com

Will please millions of moviegoers who care about movies the way johns care about hookers.

Full Review Source: Film Freak Central | comment 1 Comment
08/16/07
Walter Chaw
Walter Chaw
Film Freak Central

The Invasion is mostly about delivering thrills, and chills, and this it does with moderate success and a bunch of fast, no-nonsense edits.

Full Review Source: Philadelphia Inquirer | comment Comment
08/16/07
Steven Rea
Steven Rea
Philadelphia Inquirer

The script doesn't find ways to comment on our fearful times.

Full Review Source: Orlando Sentinel | comment Comment
08/16/07
Roger Moore
Roger Moore
Orlando Sentinel

Ironic, then, that The Invasion, the fourth film to be made from the material, keels over dead, killed by Hollywood conventionality and bland uniformity.

Full Review Source: Los Angeles Daily News | comment Comment
08/16/07
Glenn Whipp
Glenn Whipp
Los Angeles Daily News

Still effectively creepy and surprisingly unnerving despite the occasional misstep and rumors of a troubled production, the new film illustrates why and how the power of the original story remains undiminished more than half a century after its creation.

Full Review Source: Los Angeles Times | comment Comment
08/16/07
Kenneth Turan
Kenneth Turan
Los Angeles Times
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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

Whether viewing it as a thriller, a horror picture, a sci-fi film or any other possible genre, the conclusion has to be that it is terminally lame.

Full Review Source: Internet Reviews | comment Comment
08/16/07
Steve Rhodes
Steve Rhodes
Internet Reviews

It's such a laughable, scareless train wreck that you don't need to know the disastrous insider-baseball behind its production to hate it.

Full Review Source: Seattle Times | comment Comment
08/16/07
Mark Rahner
Mark Rahner
Seattle Times

How bad is it? Bad enough -- and yet this source material has such a high creep quotient that, on some level, it still scares.

Full Review Source: Christian Science Monitor | comment Comment
08/16/07
Peter Rainer
Peter Rainer
Christian Science Monitor

If you're going to remake a movie a third time, you'd better have a compelling reason.

Full Review Source: Arizona Republic | comment Comment
08/16/07
Bill Goodykoontz
Bill Goodykoontz
Arizona Republic

The Invasion's lack of thematic coherence points not only to a simplistic view of the world but to the fragmentation one risks when undergoing artistic collaboration within the film industry.

Full Review Source: Slant Magazine | comment Comment
08/16/07
Rob Humanick
Rob Humanick
Slant Magazine

The creepy premise is rendered almost ineffective through weak, factory-issued dialogue and a disappointing finale.

Full Review Source: EricDSnider.com | comment Comment
08/16/07
Eric D. Snider
Eric D. Snider
EricDSnider.com

The Invasion is a science fiction nightmare, the spectacle of actors who can do first-rate work trapped in a soul-destroying mechanism created by madmen.

Full Review Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune | comment Comment
08/16/07
Colin Covert
Colin Covert
Minneapolis Star Tribune

Someone should check the basement of the studio for pods.

Full Review Source: Beliefnet | comment Comment
08/16/07
Nell Minow
Nell Minow
Beliefnet

The fourth film based on Jack Finney's novel The Body Snatchers and the worst of them all.

Full Review Source: Premiere Magazine | comment Comment
08/16/07
Glenn Kenny
Glenn Kenny
Premiere Magazine

File this one under been there/done that and forget it.

Full Review Source: About.com | comment Comment
08/16/07
Rebecca Murray
Rebecca Murray
About.com
 
 
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