Nicole Kidman and Daniel Craig in The Invasion
Filed under: Film News, News | By: Lucy
Posted on: August 23, 2007 | 1 Comment
The Invasion, released on August 17th in the U.S, is a movie based on a screenplay by Dave Kajganich. The film differs from the 1956 film, Invasion of the Body Snatchers as the alien menace takes the form of a virus in this film, whereas in the previous film it became seed pods that grow duplicates of human bodies. The film stars Nicole Kidman and Daniel Craig and was directed by James McTeigue.
The movie follows the story of a space shuttle which mysteriously crashes on Earth and an extraterrestrial disease begins to spread, infecting any human it comes in contact with. Nicole Kidman plays Carol Bennell, a psychiatrist from Washington D.C who, along with her colleague Ben Driscoll (Daniel Craig), discovers that the transformation caused by the infection is triggered by REM sleep, taking the victims humanity. The virus spreads and leaves less people to trust. Carol, who is fighting to stay awake, tries to find her son who may well hold the answer to stopping the invasion.
This film has hasn’t been received very well by the critics, but we want to know what you think. Have you seen The Invasion? Did you enjoy it? Leave your comments below.
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I saw it opening day. While it wasn’t the greatest piece of cinema ever made, it certainly wasn’t half as bad as critics are making it up to be.
I didn’t see the original film, but I think even if I had, this film seems to stand on its own. It takes a little while to develop, but come on; the alien virus needs time to take over the vast majority! And the film gets resolved rather quickly, but you have to consider they had already found the solution almost halfway through the film (A scientist escaped to get t work onit), the remaining part is about Kidman’s character trying to get her and her son to a safe place.
It has suspense, action, pretty good effects. I think critics are being rather harsh. I didn’t feel I wasted my money, it entertained me for the duration of the film, and isn’t that what movies are supposed to do?