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Invasion, The
Mixed or average reviews
Based on 31 critic reviews
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Action | Drama | Horror | Sci-fi | Suspense/Thriller
Written by:
Jack Finney (novel)
Dave Kajganich
Directed by:
Oliver Hirschbiegel
James McTeigue (uncredited)
Release Date:
Theatrical: August 17, 2007
DVD: January 29, 2008
Running Time: 93 minutes, Color
Origin: USA
Summary
RATING: PG-13 for language
Starring Nicole Kidman, Daniel Craig, Jeremy Northam, Jackson Bond, Veronica Cartwright, Roger Rees, and Jeffrey Wright
The Invasion is 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 D.C. psychiatrist Carol Bennell and her colleague Ben Driscoll 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. (Warner Bros.)
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What The Critics Said
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San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle
Connects on a gut level in two ways, political and existential.
Read Full Review >Miami Herald Rene Rodriguez
There's no question The Invasion works in a mechanical, by-the-numbers manner. But it's what the movie leaves you with -- absolutely nothing -- that is the scariest thing about it.
Read Full Review >Chicago Reader Jonathan Rosenbaum
The third remake of "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" (1956) may not be a patch on the original, but it does have a few things the other versions lack.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times Kenneth Turan
Still effectively creepy and surprisingly unnerving despite the occasional misstep and rumors of a troubled production, the new film illustrates why and how the power of the original story remains undiminished more than half a century after its creation.
Read Full Review >The Hollywood Reporter Kirk Honeycutt
An involving sci-fi action-thriller, probably longer on chase sequences than the original director wanted and shorter on the "ick" factor than the studio wanted.
Read Full Review >Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman
The movie isn't terrible; it's just low-rent and reductive.
Read Full Review >Philadelphia Inquirer Steven Rea
Mostly about delivering thrills, and chills, and this it does with moderate success and a bunch of fast, no-nonsense edits.
Read Full Review >Washington Post Stephen Hunter
On the technical side, The Invasion has several first-rate, terrifying action sequences and grips totally from start to finish. But a subplot involving the Russian Embassy doesn't really pay off, and the relationship between Kidman and glum paramour Daniel Craig (another doc) isn't much.
Read Full Review >Seattle Post-Intelligencer William Arnold
It's a moderately compelling sci-fi action movie with a handful of scary scenes -- though nothing at all special, and only a shadow of the original or even its 1978 remake.
Read Full Review >ReelViews James Berardinelli
The mismatched blending of Hirschbiegel's low-key horror and the Wachowski Brothers' anything-but-low-key action sequences results in a cinematic dud.
Read Full Review >Christian Science Monitor Peter Rainer
At times, The Invasion comes across as a mishmash of "Rosemary's Baby" and "The Stepford Wives."
Read Full Review >The New York Times Manohla Dargis
Whatever the case, The Invasion lurches and drags and teeters on the brink of death from scene to scene; it plays as if it had been made by someone in a trance, though not a cool one.
Read Full Review >USA Today Scott Bowles
It's a shame the aliens are so preachy, because this remake of the 1956 and 1978 versions of Invasion of the Body Snatchers features a top-notch cast in Nicole Kidman and Daniel Craig and moments of unnerving terror.
Read Full Review >Wall Street Journal Joanne Kaufman
Except for one terrifically adroit sequence in a subway, there is nothing understated about The Invasion. With all the shoot-outs, the screaming, the chases, collisions and fireballs, there isn't much time for storytelling.
Read Full Review >TV Guide Maitland McDonagh
There's little room for ideas when there are flaming cars to be crashed, and overall the film is an infelicitous hodgepodge that lifts as liberally from "The Quatermass Experiment" (1956) and "28 Weeks Later" (2007) as "Body Snatchers" while leaving all the best bits behind -- even the iconic pods are gone.
Read Full Review >The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Rick Groen
Haven't they created a movie that is ultimately a soulless clone of a vibrant original and, thus, a splendidly dull example of the very forces it warns us against – the forces of grey and passion-sapping conformity.
Read Full Review >Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
Here is a great story born to be creepy, and the movie churns through it like a road company production. If the first three movies served as parables for their times, this one keeps shooting off parable rockets that fizzle out.
Read Full Review >Portland Oregonian M. E. Russell
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.
Read Full Review >Salon.com Mary Elizabeth Williams
The problem with Hirschbiegel's ("Das Experiment," "Downfall") convoluted, car-crash-laden Invasion is that it doesn't know what symbolism it wants to grasp.
Read Full Review >Boston Globe Ty Burr
Buried somewhere within the bipolar extravaganza that is The Invasion is an awfully good movie that got away.
Read Full Review >The Onion (A.V. Club) Keith Phipps
Opting for car chases instead of the thought-provoking ideas of its predecessors, the film looks like the work of, if not pod people, folks who gave up any kind of passion for the material long before the cameras started to roll.
Read Full Review >Baltimore Sun Michael Sragow
There hasn't been so much pea soup spit onscreen since "The Exorcist."
Read Full Review >Empire Simon Braund
If not a train-wreck, this is certainly more than a fender-bender. In a world overflowing with targets for a satirical pasting, we needed something a lot sharper than this.
Read Full Review >New York Daily News Jack Mathews
Obliterating the original structure and intent of "Body Snatchers" is cinema-lit blasphemy.
Read Full Review >Premiere Glenn Kenny
Noisome, fragmented mess of a movie, the fourth film based on Jack Finney's novel "The Body Snatchers" and the worst of them all.
Read Full Review >LA Weekly Scott Foundas
Is there a Razzie Award for worst casting? If so, it’s one of several that can be reserved early for this fourth, spectacularly lousy screen version of Jack Finney’s 1954 novella "The Body Snatchers," which some bright light envisioned as the ideal starring vehicle for the Cold Mountain herself, Nicole Kidman, and for Daniel Craig, last seen as the most poker-faced James Bond on record.
Read Full Review >Film Threat Pete Vonder Haar
The only mildly interesting bit of casting comes from bringing Cartwright back (as one of Bennell’s patients).
Read Full Review >New York Post Lou Lumenick
In the fourth and by far the worst screen version of "The Invasion of the Body Snatchers," Nicole Kidman's character struggles to stay awake - as will the audience.
Read Full Review >Austin Chronicle Marc Savlov
It's the pod people's version of a great, contemporaneously resonant cinematic fable, created by apparent committee, and utterly devoid of both meaning and feeling. The tagline warns: "Do not trust anyone. Do not show emotion. Do not fall asleep." Yawn.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 5.7 (out of 10) based on 54 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
R. L. gave it a10:
This film is the latest in the remake series of Jack Finney's The Invasion of the body snatcher's, in my opinion this one is the bests out of all of them, when Invasion of the Body Snatchers came out in 1956 it instantly became a sci-fi horror cult classic marking it's place as one of the greatest sci-fi films of all time. The Invasion does not fall short of brilliance, albeit they change the story around a bit to suit 20st century audiences, they changed how the virus came to earth, in the 1956 version it was pods, in this one it was a space shuttle that was carrying spores that pass form human to human. But the Invasion is not a terrible sci-fi horror film, it amazingly quite well done, considering the talent this film drew( Nicole Kidman, Daniel Craig, Jeffery Wright & Jeremy Northam.) it's a stellar cast for a stellar movie. The Invasion doesn't hurtle trough it's story, it takes it time to explain and tell it trough a mild pace that quickly speeds up as the story progress, this film explores another aspect of an attempt to take over the world, where as most films that takes the same approach begin it with a mass alien invasion of our planet, this film strives from that and approaches a more quieter and less destructive approach to taking over our world it follows a virus that while you sleep takes over your body and controls you, with that said The Invasion is a run for your life, cover your eyes Sci-fi horror film that you can not afford to miss.
Adam A gave it a5:
The next generation's remake of an already tired, tired story. The same politics used to make it fresh make it dated.
D Mad gave it a10:
This movie simply did not get the promotion it needed! The plots is great and Nicole Kidman is awesome in it!
Cory G gave it a9:
Loved it, but somethings could have played out differently.
Johnny2cents gave it a0:
You know all that vomiting going on there in this movie?? Well say no more.
Judy T gave it a5:
Pretty good remake that's ruined with a contrived, feel good ending.
MiKE gave it a7:
yes, the movie has some flaws. But for the most part of the movie, it does create a scary atmosphere where people are taken over. I'm not a fan of Kidman, But I thought she was great in this movie! I would of liked the ending to be different. But overall a big surprise to a movie that only received a 45 percent average on metacritic.
