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.
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...
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.
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.