The Invasion (DVD)

When a space shuttle explodes just outside the earth's axis, it unleashes an alien life form that takes over human bodies. The infected become devoid of human emotion and see their new status as a peaceful alternative to the violence-ravaged modern day society. They spread the seed by spurting a revolting green liquid from their mouths onto the new victims, and as soon as they fall asleep it takes hold. Their are, as always, protestors. Carol Bennell, a psychiatrist who notices the change in some of her patients, discovers that a certain medication is the antedote to the infection, but right now her main focus has to be on rescuing her son from her ex-husbands evil ...

(This review is reproduced from my site - ShaunMunro.co.uk, cheers) Director: Oliver Hirschbiegel Cast: Daniel Craig, Nicole Kidman, Roger Rees, Jeffrey Wright Release Date: August 17th, 2007 (US), October 12th, 2007 (UK) Certificate: PG-13 (US) From the moment that The Invasion begins, as Nicole Kidman's character sifts through a convenience store, popping pills and downing fizzy energy drinks, it is made to clear to us that this is, in every sense of the word, a modern-day reinvention of what is by now a classic story. If only this opening scene didn't abuse the Homeric "in media res" literary technique, showing us a scene ...

The first thing that came into my head as The Invasion began was "Plastic Surgery"; in the two years since actress Nicole Kidman had made a physical appearance on screen she had lost a good five years, and most annoyingly she had developed that rather annoying Victoria Beckham pout, perhaps the two things are connected. I know this is a hard line to take at the start of a review, but this age reversal process is striking to the extent of being the most overpowering thing about the movie. The Invasion is technically speaking the forth official Bodysnatcher movie, while Bodysnatchers: The Invasion Continues in 1993 was a dramatically different ...