Warner Bros. "Invasion" Review by guest blogger.

"ALL OF YOU! LISEN TO WHAT I HAVE TO SAY! YOU MUST BELIEVE ME! EVERY
MAN, WOMAN AND CHILD'S LIFE IS AT STAKE IF YOU SEE THIS FILM!"


Its trash!


So what; the hot red head is in it. So what; James Bond is in it.


What about telling a good story? Is it too much to ask?


They fail miserably here.


I've seen this film before. You've seen this film before. Talk about
deja vu.


Three times, no four,  if you count "The Puppet Masters(Which this
movie more resembles than the original Jack Finney story, "Sleep No
More.")" that  had Donald Sutherland in it who was in the 1978 remake
along with Veronica Cartwright who was in this new version as victim of
her wife-beating husband.


Five, if you count the 1956 version called, "The Brain Eaters(Again, a
version of "The Puppet Masters.") directed by Bruno ViSota, starring Ed
Nelson and a minor role by Leonard Nimoy who was in the 1978 remake,
which had a cameo by Kevin McCarthy from the original 1956 version.


There's not even a chase sequence through the Bronson Caves as in the
1956 original version. There's not even a cool character actor like
Whit Bissell it in either.


And the music sucks.


What possessed the brainiacs at Warner Brothers to remake a movie
everyone has seen and knows the outcome?


I have come to the conclusion that the Warner Brothers personnel and
executives are pod people and they're out to get us. All of us.


They produce a film with their WB logo on it, hypnotizing the audience
as they munch on their popcorn or Red Vines, occasionally taking a sip
  from their Mega-Jumbo $5.00 coke. During the course of the movie's
run,
we slowly start to fall asleep at the plot, though the characters in
the film can't.


They know if they do, they become "one-of-them."


While we're in a slumber, Warner Brothers executives walk down the
aisles placing seed pods underneath our seats. These pods replicate our
bodies, destroying the original. We leave the theater as lobotomized
mannequins wondering what we just saw.


Okay, granted the cool opening spacecraft crash was good, but one sceen
does not make a good film. From then on out, its just the same rehash
we've all seen before.


This movie was in the can for over a year due to the shoddy directing
of Oliver Hirschbiegel. James McTeigue, who was the second unit/action
director(The "Matrix" series of films.) was brought in to try and
salvage what he could with this film and you can clearly see the two
distinctive styles of directing within the film.


McTeigue does the best he can with what he had to work with, but did
anyone read the script first? I mean, who the hell wrote this? Stevie
Wonder?


Plot holes you could drive a truck through.


The acting? They could have phoned it in. Sure, Daniel Craig is more
subdued in this film. Its Nicole Kidman's star vehicle and yes, she
does look good.


But,  it would have been a much better vehicle had they reversed the
roles and let Craig play "Dr. Bennell." But, I wasn't in on the
casting. Then again, this film wouldn't have been made unless Nicole
Kidman said "yes" to that $20 million dollar paycheck. I would too.


I'm advising you, for your own sanity, "DON'T SEE THIS MOVIE" or better
yet, see a good film at a multi-plex and sneak into "The Invasion."


Little Jimmy Grimaldi saw it, so did Uncle Ira and they were never the
same.


And for God's sake, don't fall asleep because...


"THEY'RE HERE ALREADY! YOU'RE NEXT! YOU'RE NEXT!"

Comments

[Jonathan Minnis]

I agree with 200% with this blogger. That film sucked ass! Warner Brothers films all suck ass! Sick of Nicole Kidman!