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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: PG-13 [See Full Rating] for violence, disturbing images and terror.

Runtime: 1 hr 39 mins

Genre: Horror/Suspense

Theatrical Release:Aug 17, 2007 Wide

Box Office: $15,049,248

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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Nicole Kidman's character struggles to stay awake -- as will the audience.

Full Review Source: New York Post | comment Comment
08/17/07
Lou Lumenick
Lou Lumenick
New York Post
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Next time the aliens come invading, they may want to pass the brains, hold the lecture.

Full Review Source: USA Today | comment Comment
08/17/07
Scott Bowles
Scott Bowles
USA Today

A frantic mess that opens with a scene plucked from the film's third act that smacks of having been moved up to pacify audiences too restless for a slow build.

Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide | comment Comment
08/17/07
Maitland McDonagh
Maitland McDonagh
TV Guide's Movie Guide

We'll have to wait until the inevitable director's cut DVD to find out what Hirschbiegel really wanted to say. It would have to be a whole lot more interesting than this accidental agit-prop, which equates pacifism with mindlessness.

Full Review Source: Toronto Star | comment Comment
08/17/07
Peter Howell
Peter Howell
Toronto Star
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The Invasion connects on a gut level in two ways, political and existential.

Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle | comment Comment
08/17/07
Mick LaSalle
Mick LaSalle
San Francisco Chronicle
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Nicole Kidman and Daniel Craig are adequate leads, but no great actor will be more squandered this year than Jeffrey Wright, who does nothing but speak in vast paragraph blocks of exposition while looking haggard and bored.

Full Review Source: Oregonian | comment Comment
08/17/07
M.E. Russell
M.E. Russell
Oregonian

The Invasion has a few things to offer both summer-movie audiences and more thoughtful film buffs.

Full Review Source: Newark Star-Ledger | comment Comment
08/17/07
Stephen Whitty
Stephen Whitty
Newark Star-Ledger
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There is nothing here to be taken seriously, let alone fear.

Full Review Source: New York Daily News | comment Comment
08/17/07
Jack Mathews
Jack Mathews
New York Daily News
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The elegant presence of Kidman and Craig helps ease the inanities of the script.

Full Review Source: Miami Herald | comment Comment
08/17/07
Rene Rodriguez
Rene Rodriguez
Miami Herald

made with too much optimism

Full Review Source: Film School Rejects | comment Comment
08/17/07
Kevin Carr
Kevin Carr
Film School Rejects

This film has no teeth, and philosophy doesn't help you chew.

Full Review Source: Jam! Movies | comment Comment
08/17/07
Liz Braun
Liz Braun
Jam! Movies

Resistance is futile -- unless your screenplay can offer pat, absurd plot turns.

Full Review Source: Houston Chronicle | comment Comment
08/17/07
Bruce Westbrook
Bruce Westbrook
Houston Chronicle
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It might have been nice to see Hirschbiegel's original concept play out. As it is, the film's essential eeriness gets mashed into Hollywood hogwash.

Full Review Source: Detroit News | comment Comment
08/17/07
Tom Long
Tom Long
Detroit News

There have been two official remakes of Invasion, and both tapped into the original's fear and dread of a society subverted by the others. This one taps only into that part of the brain that shuts down when confronted with witless tedium.

Full Review Source: Detroit Free Press | comment Comment
08/17/07
Terry Lawson
Terry Lawson
Detroit Free Press
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If you're familiar with the earlier films, The Invasion is even less satisfying.

Full Review Source: Denver Post | comment Comment
08/17/07
Lisa Kennedy
Lisa Kennedy
Denver Post

The movie offers plenty of smarts and imaginative distractions to counter the stacking of improbabilities.

Full Review Source: Dallas Morning News | comment Comment
08/17/07
Tom Maurstad
Tom Maurstad
Dallas Morning News

[It] may not be a patch on the original, but it does have a few things the other versions lack: a nonstop lurching pace propelled by jump cuts and flash-forwards, Nicole Kidman as the hero... and a bitter kind of satiric irony leaking around the edges.

Full Review Source: Chicago Reader | comment Comment
08/17/07
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Chicago Reader
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This take on The Body Snatchers is surprisingly stylish.

Full Review Source: Boxoffice Magazine | comment Comment
08/17/07
Chad Greene
Chad Greene
Boxoffice Magazine

In the way that certain baseball games become pitchers’ duels, some movies are cutting-room battles.

Full Review Source: Boston Globe | comment Comment
08/17/07
Ty Burr
Ty Burr
Boston Globe

This movie is too impatient and out of it to express either what makes humans individual or what makes them part of a community in the new millennium.

Full Review Source: Baltimore Sun | comment Comment
08/17/07
Michael Sragow
Michael Sragow
Baltimore Sun
 
 
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