The Invasion
2007 Directed by James McTeigue, Oliver Hirschbiegel
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Don't sleep. Don't go home. I'll find you. -Mom
As a Washington psychiatrist unearths the origin of an alien epidemic, she also discovers her son might be the only way it can be stopped.
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Oh dear.
Oh dearie dearie me.
What an awful re-hash of one of science fiction's most beloved classics.
It's just wrong in all the ways a remake can be wrong.
Oh dear...
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Stage 1 in Nicole Kidman's facial tinkering: upper lip puffed to a modest beak, eyebrows at a two-step gradient, cheeks prominently bulbous with a mild sheen, corrugated jaw line, forehead completely immobile.
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I like Nicole Kidman. I sort of like Daniel Craig. I like Invasion of the Body Snatchers (both the '56 and the '78 versions.) I like this.
It's nothing special, the plot is very plodding moving from point A to point B with no massive surprises along the way, but it's a good story. The characters are familiar but have a different spin on them and the performances are all solid.
It feels like a BBC 2 or 3 episode long sci-fi drama squashed down to 90 minutes with a big star actress in the lead role. Not a particularly bad thing, in my opinion.
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“Invasion” ist einer dieser Filme, die eine tolle Idee haben, deren Umsetzung dann allerdings nur Durchschnitt geworden ist. Die Idee einen Art Virus auf die Menschheit loszulassen erfindet Oliver Hirschbiegel dabei auch nicht neu, doch zumindest gelingt es ihm die Symptome interessant zu gestalten. Sein Film wird so zumindest zu einem Film, den man sich durchaus zu Ende anschauen kann. Dank Nicole Kidman und Daniel Craig werden die beiden Hauptfiguren zudem so gespielt, dass man ihnen ihre Rollen abkauft und selbst einer Psychiaterin die Rettung der Welt zutraut.
Schwachpunkt in der Besetzung ist meiner Meinung nach Jackson Bond (Killer Movie, Into Temptation). Er spielt in “Invasion” den Sohn von Carol Bennell und bleibt dabei ziemlich blass. Gute Kinderschauspieler zu finden,…
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Stage 1 in Nicole Kidman's facial tinkering: upper lip puffed to a modest beak, eyebrows at a two-step gradient, cheeks prominently bulbous with a mild sheen, corrugated jaw line, forehead completely immobile.
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The fourth Body snatcher Film. very, very middle of the road, but, I realy like it. Although i would of liked it to of been more sinister
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Yes another remake of this story, but this one had my favorite actress Kidman in it, so I still enjoyed it. She and Craig are fantastic, but this may be the male side of me may have been the reason I was really distracted by Kidman's chest throughout the film. He boobs look massive and amazing, but the fact they are so crazy distracting can ruin her performance. It always stands out to me when I watch this film.
I liked the effects of how you change, especially the scenes when people wake up too early.
It doesn't add anything to the story, but I like the story and Kidman was enjoyable enough for me to like it.
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Überflüssiges Remake ist überflüssig.
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I didn't hate it but at the same time I didn't love it, this was very middle of the road
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I think all of the Invasion of the Body Snatchers movies are very scary. And this one, simply titled The Invasion, is rather scary. Particularly in the early scenes, the movie does a great job of growing terror and allowing the virus to slowly seep into the social structure of Nicole Kidman's town. We see Kidman walking/driving through streets and just out of view, she witnesses a traffic accident, a crying pedestrian - it's subtlety like this that makes a great horror film. Kidman looks on, intrigued, confused...not knowing that these random scenes of irrational behavior and tragedy are a sign of things to come.
The obvious social and political critiques is more apparent in this revision based on Jack…
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This review reportedly contains spoilers. I can handle the truth.
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I like Nicole Kidman. I sort of like Daniel Craig. I like Invasion of the Body Snatchers (both the '56 and the '78 versions.) I like this.
It's nothing special, the plot is very plodding moving from point A to point B with no massive surprises along the way, but it's a good story. The characters are familiar but have a different spin on them and the performances are all solid.
It feels like a BBC 2 or 3 episode long sci-fi drama squashed down to 90 minutes with a big star actress in the lead role. Not a particularly bad thing, in my opinion.