Film: The Invasion

[Zagenth]

Not normally a Nicole Kidman fan, but this movie actually looks pretty good.

 

[SA]

The Invasion

http://theinvasionmovie.warnerbros.com/

Nicole Kidman ... Carol Bennell
Daniel Craig ... Ben Driscoll
Jeremy Northam ... Tucker Kaufman
Jackson Bond ... Oliver
Jeffrey Wright ... Dr. Stephen Galeano

"The Invasion" is 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 D.C. psychiatrist Carol Bennell (Nicole Kidman) and her colleague 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.


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It was okay, nothing to go goo-goo-gaa-gaa over. A bit of a break from your typical zombie film, but that's all it is in the end.

side note: even in a serious role, I cannot watch Jeffrey Wright, who plays Dr. Galeano, without immediately picturing Peoples from Shaft

A weak three stars.

 

[vegan]

the trailer has one of the best songs ever written

i hope they didn't defile sigur ros' name with a bad movie

 

[nofx1422]

"The Invasion" is a nightmarish journey into a world where the only way to stay alive is to stay awake.

Sounds like one for the meth addicts

 

[ego_loss]

How many times do we need to remake Invasion of the Body Snatchers?

 

[Swerlz]

i was thinkin the same thing

 

[alasdairm]

rate this movie

alasdair

 

[mariacallas]

Trailer looks promising..but hey, I'm quite satisfied with Body Snatchers TIA.

 

[ego_loss]

^^
which one? At last count, weren't there four or five?

 

[mariacallas]

^the one with Meg Tilly. To be fair, it's the only one I saw so feel free to berate me if it's not the best choice!

 

[ChemicalBeauty]

Also a weak 3 stars from me. Not great but not terrible.

 

[DustnRoses]

I saw it, and I loved it. I went in expecting a cheesy remake, but it was put together really well.

 

[mulberryman]

I liked the creepy ending best. Fully expecting the cliche' horror movie ending, you know, just when you thought it was over... only the real threat presented is so so much scarier... humans...

 

[L2R]

not until fucking february

 

[mulberryman]

Just seen it yesterday. Gotta love the internet.

 

[L2R]

+1 to SA's sentiments
weak zombie film

except when i see jeffrey wright, i think the manchurian candidate and basquiat

3/5

i very much prefer the 1978 donald sutherland, leonard nimoy, jeff goldblum version. aint seen any others.

 

[Paralogic]

NSFW:

Am I the only one that thinks the ending was severely edited? It might of been the fact I saw it not too long after getting out of jail in a state of insanity obsessing over conspiracy theories, but they seem to find the cure to the alien virus thing rather abruptly, and the fate of Nicole Kidmans son is pretty much left without a conclusion. I liked everything in between tho.

please hide your spoilers-- atlas

 

[mulberryman]

hidden spoiler above

NSFW:

I think it was meant to be that way: everything goes back to normal as if it never happened. The 'perfect world' of the zombies, a nightmare never realized, and the mundane life of humanity goes on as if peace was a bad dream.