Sunday, August 2, 2009

The Invisible (2007)

"The Invisible" has a cool premise but is skunked by serious script problems. That's surprising since David Goyer, who worked on "The Dark Knight," served as writer and director. After a teen (Justin Chatwin) is attacked and left for dead in a storm drain, his spirit watches his attackers conspire, his widowed mother weep and his friends dismiss him as a freak.It's a great story: What teen doesn't want to see how the world revolves -- or doesn't -- around him? But, the film goes wrong in so many ways. The most grievous sin: The entire last third of the film is so drawn out, over-dramatized and devoid of any sense of reality cum logic, it turns into an unintended laugh riot. It's a shame because most of the leads have complex characters not normally found in supernatural teen thrillers. The movie all but -- bad pun alert -- disappears. C-

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