Invázió

A műfaj rajongói számára az Invázió tűrhető adag hátborzongást kínál a még mindig gyönyörű Nicole Kidmannel. Kapcsolata Daniel Craiggel kicsit furcsa, de érdekes. A film legnagyobb hátránya az ötletek nélküli forgatókönyv, amely csupán újrahasznosítja azt, amit már láttunk a "testrablók inváziójában" és az X-akták sorozatban, és semmit sem tesz a téma megújításáért. Másrészt viszont egy percig sem unatkoztam. Természetesen a Spielberg Világok harca című filmje izgalmasabb és erőteljesebb volt, de az Invázió sem nélkülözi a kellő feszültséget. Itt lépésről lépésre van tálalva, bensőségesebb módon, kisebb érzelmi árnyalatokban. (2007.10.19)

Decent as a thriller, but doesn’t work at all as horror. The effect of having two directors is markedly clear and I think the result is weaker than either a fully slow or fully fast treatment would have been. Kidman and Craig deliver good but not great or memorable performances. Spoiler: the criticism about the real human population is interesting, but it could have been worked better, for instance, that people remembered their healing and weren’t grateful to their “rescuers” – that would have been a lot more striking. End of spoiler. Interlacing dialogues with flash forwards of events to come is such a weird idea that I’m grateful they didn’t use it more than a couple of times in the entire film… 60% (2008.01.30)

Nicole Kidman and Daniel Craig are certainly not the ideal dream couple, although two attempts were made. Besides, it's a shame to cast Kidman in action movies. But in terms of being average, The Invasion can be tolerated. It's nothing we haven't seen many times before, but why bother despising a relaxing genre? There's going to be another version of this so enough anyway. (2009.02.04)

A slightly unfortunate combination of two creative approaches that allow neither for a full connection to the psychological level of the premise, nor for the film to be a gripping dark thriller. The material, however, is promising; there are parts where the film irradiates hopelessness and we root for the female lead, but the last act only telegraphs the main ideas of the story, which can’t develop in an interesting way and ultimately lead to a trivial finale. The previous versions managed to give this smart material a far more subtle and distinctive touch. (2019.09.24)

It's a new version of Invasion of the Body Snatchers, or rather an adaptation of Jack Finney's book. I must say, I really love both previous films (from 1956 and 1978), and I appreciate how they convey a strong sense of something happening that also affects the viewer. From this latest film, I simply didn't have that feeling. Instead, I felt it was just an okay thriller where Nicole Kidman didn't particularly stand out. She does have quite nicely framed shots of her behind in some scenes, though. However, that shouldn't be the main takeaway from such a film. (2014.03.31)