Product DescriptionFrom the producers of The Sixth Sense comes the gripping suspense-filled mystery, The Invisible. Nick Powell is a handsome young writer with a future as bright as he is. Then one tragic night he's brutally attacked and left for dead — except he's not. He's trapped in a ghostly limbo where no one can see or hear him. Except for Annie, the one person who must get closer to Nick in order to save him from beyond his worst nightmare. If together they can quickly solve the mystery of his murder before it is too late, there's a chance he'll live again. - Actors: Justin Chatwin
- Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
- Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
- Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
- Language (Subtitled): French
- Language (Subtitled): Spanish
- Language (Original Language): English
- Language (Dubbed): French
- Language (Dubbed): Spanish
- Region Code: 1
- Release Date: 2007-10-16
- Running Time: 102 minutes
- Theatrical Release Date: 2007-04-27
Customer ReviewsReviewed on 2008-07-22  
Will somebody please pass the tissues already?
For the first few minutes of The Invisible, if you're anything like me, you'll spend it racking what (little in my case) brains you have to try and figure out who the actors are. But by the end of the movie, you're too busy trying to hide your face and figure out exactly where you started crying to care anymore.
The Invisible is about a talented young man, Nick, who has a promising career in front of him when he gets out of school and a writer's course in London, if he could get away from his mother's ever smothering prescence to get on the plane. Annie dresses in black, and tucks up all her gorgeous hair underneath a black beanie and has a wicked (step)mother (?) and a little brother who she quite positively adores. Watch out for the scene where Annie reveals she HAS hair - a scene that is really enlightening and leaves her looking like a young Shakira.
Annie also has a much older tattooed boyfriend, who has a history with the police, and when she gets over enthusiastic on a crime spree, he shops her to the police anonymously. Annie suspects everybody who holds a grudge against her (apart from the obvious) and ends up giving Nick a beating that SHE won't ever forget.
From here, we tread on Ghost territory. But for anyone who previously loved Ghost (me), this wipes away every fragment of memory about that movie. For Nick's in limbo - stuck between one world and the next. And he needs help.
If you're expecting a teenage horror flick, go see another movie. This is NOT your stereotypical teenage horror flick. This movie actually has a heart at the centre of it, and isn't afraid to show it.
The Invisible, in my opinion, was amazing. In the UK it was released as the director's cut, with some additional scenes. The two actors - Justin Chatwin as Nick and Margarita Levieva as Annie - were simply amazing in two very demanding roles. Margarita reminded me so much of Shakira in the second half of the film, when she has her hair out from under that awful beanie hat, and in the first half, she reminds me of Jessica Alba.
I cry at nearly everything - I've been known to cry at Neighbours, I can't watch My Girl anymore, and don't even get me started on Beaches or Mask, cos I can't stop crying enough to see what happens at the end. I reckon I started crying about 10-15 minutes before the end on this, but I don't really remember. All I remember was that my face was rather wet, and I was trying to hide my face until I could run to the toilet and dry my eyes. Highly embarrassing. And it was all I could do to stop myself from thinking about it afterwards and blubbing again!
I raved about this at work after seeing it, and want my own copy to watch again. I'll cry again but I subjected myself to Beaches three times (and cried all three times), and I have the Helen Daniels death from Neighbours on DVD. Bring on the tissues, cos the bad reviews are wrong.
|  | Reviewed on 2008-06-17
A Schlock-Fest Mess
If you were a film maker and happened upon a bad premise that ended just as bad as it started, you'd probably want to hide. And thus, I believe, is where THE INVISIBLE received its true title.
Based EXTREMELY loosely on the 2002 Swedish thriller DEN OSYNLIGE, The Invisible is so wrought with problems as to be sadly laughable.
First let's look at the premise of the film. A nearly murdered boy named Nick (Justin Chatwin, Weeds) comes back to `life' ...but doesn't. He's a ghost of himself but doesn't know why, nor does the viewing audience. Perhaps he's being taught some ethereal lesson? Who knows?
Second is the hot-tough-chick who `kills' Nick named Annie (Margarita Levieva). She's battling demons both in her private life and her school, finding trouble wherever it may lay. And when she thinks she's killed Nick, she suddenly grows a conscious. Why she does is, again, unclear. But, oh, there's the fact that this troubled girl who `killed' this fellow school mate can suddenly hear him, too. Again, we're unsure why this is. One would think that Nick's mom (Marcia Gay Harden, Into the Wild) would be the one to hear her own son. After all, she has a genetic connection to him and would probably be the one most likely to hear his near-death pleas. But ...no.
Third is the woefully lame ending. Why Nick's mother would allow his would-be killer into his hospital room is beyond ludicrous. And the fact that she laid down and `poof!' Nick is once again `alive' is pure schlock to the highest degree.
One would think that Director David S. Goyer would come up with something powerful and moving, especially when you consider he did some amazing writing work on films such as Dark City, Blade and Batman Begins. But ...no. I guess they all can't be winners. I bet Mr. Goyer wishes he were invisible after the release of this mess.
P.S. Also, when some guys move Nick's 'body', it makes ZERO sense since they leave it out in the open versus where it was, which was a place that had already been searched and was hidden from view. | | Reviewed on 2008-06-10
bait & switch, heavy-handed metaphors
We saw this after being very intrigued by the previews. Unfortunately, as it turns out, the previews had absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with the movie. Okay, that's an exaggeration. The premise shown in the previews is what has nothing to do with the movie. "How do you solve a murder when the victim ... is YOU?" has nothing to do with the movie. There's no murder, there's no mystery. What there is, is a heavy-handed metaphor: kids feel invisible.
Nick Powell (Justin Chatwin) is a high school senior from a wealthy family. Oddly, he attends a public school, where he has a run-in with violent juvenile delinquent Annie Newton (Margarita Levieva), but he's so very cool that he defuses the situation.
Meanwhile, his mom (Marcia Gay Harden) has been smothering and controlling since his father's death, and she's so mean she won't let him go to London for a writing workshop. Because, as everybody knows, London is the only place to learn to become a writer. And if he doesn't go, his life is over.
Then Annie's out with her boyfriend and robs a jewelry store window. Her boyfriend warns her she's out of control, but she doesn't listen, so he turns her in to the cops. Except she decides it must have been Nick who did it. So she and her henchmen attack Nick and when it appears they've killed him, they dump him in a manhole in the woods (?), cover it up, and run off.
Nick then is literally invisible, and nobody can hear him except Annie, eventually, and he has to convince her to save him.
There are some pretty clever scenes when he first realizes he's invisible, first showing some action on his part and its consequences, then showing that nothing really happened. That was actually my favorite part of the movie.
Both of our boys (ages 12 and 17) watched with us, and they both liked The Invisible much more than I did. Unsurprisingly--it's aimed at teenagers. And no, I didn't try to change their minds. We did, however, discuss the fact that Hollywood's version of high school doesn't bear a lot of resemblance to real life.
I got the distinct feeling that the filmmakers changed the movie's focus halfway through--after they'd shot the trailers. It wasn't until halfway through the movie that it became clear that it wasn't a paranormal murder mystery, and the movie seemed a lot more forced after that point. The ending/rescue scene(s) dragged on and on, apparently to hammer home the point that Annie needed to redeem herself, apparently by revealing... her hair. (She wears a knit cap through most of the movie, and amazingly, when she removes it--pointing out that now she's good--she doesn't have hat hair, she has lovely, wavy, quite long hair.)
*sigh* Freshman film classes are going to love this one. All that wonderful symbolism, easily identified. They can write whole essays on the meaning of Annie's hair alone. | | Reviewed on 2008-05-27
Great movie! One of my favorites!
The Invisible is based around Nick Powell (Justin Chatwin), a wealthy teenager who loves to write. But when he tries to take a flight to London to go to a writing school, his mother cancels the flight and crushes his dreams of escape. That night, Nick goes out to try to get away from it all when he is being followed home after a party by a lone car. Fleeing, he is chased down by Annie, who believes he ratted her out about her stealing jewelry from a store one night. Nick is left dead, or so is believed, in a sewer deep in the forest. The next morning his mother finds him gone, and immediately sends out a search party for him. All the while Nick is trapped in a limbo between life or death, and in order for him to come fully back to life, he must get Annie to tell the police where his body is hidden.
By the producers who brought you the Sixth Sense, this is a spin-off of that, with a touch that is specially for teenagers. I rather enjoyed it, and I thought Justin Chatwin played the part of Nick Powell perfectly. | | Reviewed on 2008-05-18
False advertising, Not the problem but didn't help either
Don't be fooled by the advertising, this is not a whodunit thriller; it is more of a character piece. My problem isn't that it was a character piece; it was that I didn't care for any of the characters. If everybody in the movie died I wouldn't have cared, however on the other hand if everybody lived I wouldn't have cared either. Maybe with better script, actors that could compel you to feel something for them, this movie would have been better. Do yourself a favor and don't get this movie, don't even rent it. Wait until it comes on TV that way you won't waste your money and if you don't like it you can always change the channel. | |
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