The Invasion

It appears as though I watched the original, and by original, I mean the '50s version, not the Donal Sutherland snatch-fest (I have yet to see) Invasion of the Bodysnatchers. I'm always a little wary of these "older" movies as they can be quite slow, terrible and really...just painful to watch. But Invasin of the Bodysnatchers was an excellent movie, and it makes one realize that a truly good movie is a good movie for a reason. But, I won't get into too much detail on that movie; all you need to know is that I thorougly enjoyed it.

The Invasion, with Nicole Kidman, was a horrible movie. Can you recall this movie hitting the theatres? Did it make anything at the box office? Is Kidman capable of bringing in a crowd anymore, and was Daniel Craig enough to get people to see this movie? Apparently not. Cause it sucked.

Where do I begin? We can start with the insane editing. This movie is edited with tons of quick cuts, and editing that takes you through an akward amount of time in a very stilted fashion. Flashes of Requiem for a Dream type edits popped into mind, yet not nearly as affective, or useful, for that matter. One scene did catch my attention with the editing, where discussions of the plan of escape were underway, the actual escape was quickly cut in. It was neat, although odd.

Then there are the terrible explainations of what is going on: very detailed and completely unnecessary. Do they think we're idiots? We can't piece together what is happening on screen? And everything is given away very early on in the movie, for no real good reason: it's not like it focued on anything in more depth later on. If anything it felt forced, poorly written and showed some terrible acting.

Anything redeeming about this film? Not that I care to mention. We got some good laughs out of it at least, and it was somewhat entertaining, but that can't be a proper excuse anymore. Now I have to go see what Donal does about the body-snatchers!