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The Invasion
- In theaters August 17th 2007
- Rated PG-13 for Violence, Disturbing Images and
Terror
- RunTime: 93 min
- Matt's rating - 3 out of 5
- Cindy's rating - 3 out of 5
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Matt's Review below
It is odd how NASA is always trying to get us to travel
to other planets even though Hollywood makes it
perfectly clear that anything coming from space is just
plain bad for you. Astronauts are always dragging
back some mutating funk that totally whacks out those
of us lucky enough to be earth born. Still we keep
sending people out there in hopes that we will find
other forms of life. In the new film The Invasion we find
out how nasty those other forms can be. It is a
retelling of the classic sci-fi thriller Invasion of the
Body Snatchers but with some pretty decent action
and suspense.
The story starts quick and gets right to the meat of the
plot. It doesn't take a lot of time setting up the
characters and developing subject lines. Basically a
space shuttle returns. It brings a funk that once in you
creates a non-emoting zombie of a creature.
Creatures who will stop at nothing until all of earth is
either dead or invaded. This transformation takes
place in your body the first time you go to sleep. So the
trick is to stay awake while avoiding the sleepwalking
weirdoes. When Carol Bennell (Nicole Kidman)
learns her son may hold an answer to the cure she
battles her way to a remote government lab.
Along with Nicole Kidman it stars Daniel Craig. Both
do a nice job of pulling off what could be a predictable,
silly story. These type of films always teeter on the
brink of stupidity and can come across idiotic. The
Invasion adds enough suspense and action to raise it
above the bar of normal Living Dead flicks. The
director moves the story and keeps it simple. Sure
there are plot holes and often the mutated humans
have to contradict their nature when convenient for the
story. But luckily this flick does it with subtlety. In the
end you find yourself liking a film that in theory should
be terrible.
The Invasion is Rated PG-13 for Violence, Disturbing
Images and Terror. The overall theme and images of
the mutants are certainly too intense for young
children. The language is fairly mild and overall the
film is shot in a way that you know what happens
without having to view it or hear it in graphic detail.
There is only a 2 second gratuitous moment of a
woman in her undies so adolescent males will be
highly disappointed. In all honesty I think they created
a classic thriller that went the direction of suspense
instead of sci-fi horror. I give The Invasion 3 out of 5
packs of no-doze. Not a record breaker but not a bad
time at the theater either. Just know before you go.
I'm Matt Mungle.
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Matt and Cindy are members of the North Texas
Film
Critics Association (NTFCA). For additional
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