Caught in a state of bodily limbo, well-off but emotionally isolated teenager Nick Powell (Justin Chatwin, above) must try to unravel his own death in David Goyer’s The Invisible, an evocatively gloomy, elliptical drama of redemption that pretty nicely captures the palpable disconnection of youth. The problem is that the race-against-time elements aren’t always quite galvanizing enough to elicit and hold the attention and appreciation of younger audiences wanting or expecting a goosing supernatural thriller. This is much more a character-rooted, sustained mood piece than a commercially geared film, but since it’s about teenagers, well… it faces an uphill climb wooing its target demographic. All in all, though, certainly not a bad movie. For the full review, from Screen International, click here.
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I seem to be reading mostly negative reactions (and hearing them during the movie from annoying teenagers behind me who don’t know how to shut up), and I can understand where they’re coming from– but I disagree with it.
I really enjoyed this film– “character-rooted, sustained mood piece” is a perfect way to describe it. I loved the writing, and I adored the way that the two characters worked so well together. They were so different, but were united by the fact that they were both broken people.
I admit that I wasn’t expecting such an artsy film, but I knew it would be different from other films I’d seen on the subject, so I was really excited to see it. I’d been waiting almost a year!
What I’m hearing is mostly that the trailer was misleading. Sure, it may have been somewhat misleading, but isn’t the point to be surprised by a film? If the trailer said it all, there’d be not much reason to see the film at all. Just because you go in expecting something different, doesn’t mean that you can’t respect a film for what it is.