"The Invasion" Movie Review

Don't sleep.

Don't go home.

Don't trust anyone.

That's basically what the movie is about. But the poster-maker forgot to add another "Don't" to the list -- Don't watch this movie.

When what the title suggests is what you will get in a movie, it's either sleek simplicity or creativity-deficiency. The movie is -- surprise, surprise! -- about an invasion of our beloved planet which we, with much care, nurture it with untreated sewage, choking fumes and ever-breeding species that come in extreme sizes.

The movie depicts alien invasion in the form of virus, which somehow find their way onto a crashing spacecraft and begin infecting people when curious Americans went to touch the debris. A perfect example to illustrate the idiom "curiosity kills the cat". Didn't your mum warn you against touching unidentifiable objects?

There are far too many things left unexplained in the movie, and the plot moves on just because the scriptwriter assumed that certain things happen, and just take it that they just happen. Sounds like H2 Economics, doesn't it? For instance, how did those nasty virus hopped onto the spacecraft? How did the black man on the subway know how to deal with the infected ones? How did people even know what to do in order to escape being infected? How did Ben, Daniel Craig's role in the film, get infected?

Too many loopholes + too many assumptions + too many things left unexplained = Illogical, trashy movie.

I totally have no idea what message is the movie trying to convey. Maybe the movie wasn't produced with any underlying agenda, and I was, perhaps, deceived by the Russian diplomat in the movie who initated a "philosophical" talk with Nicole Kidman over a dinner at a posh restaurant, and whose words were echoed again in Kidman's mind at the end of the movie. I mean, certainly there must be something to achieve should there be such a delibrate scene, but I really couldn't figure it out. The diplomat was going along the lines of people will will make mistakes no matter what, but in the movie, the people aren't really themselves, but have their minds manipulated by foreign creatures. *Shrugs*

Apparently, my friend Samuel was telling me to look out for overhead microphones that appeared in the movie at various scenes -- a good indicator of a lack of sincerity in producing the movie since there wasn't even a decent post-filiming editting done. No wonder it is such a trashy film.

Unfortunately, I missed out on the microphones, presumably distracted by Nicole Kidman's eyebags and dark rings -- a result of her lack of sleep (to prevent herself from mutating into an alien-controlled self)

Overall rating: 2.5 / 10

On a side note, PRELIM'S OVER!!! YAHOO!!!