{"id":46108,"date":"2020-03-09T10:36:18","date_gmt":"2020-03-09T14:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=46108"},"modified":"2020-03-09T10:36:35","modified_gmt":"2020-03-09T14:36:35","slug":"the-invisible-man-movie-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2020\/03\/the-invisible-man-movie-review\/","title":{"rendered":"The Invisible Man \u2013 Movie review"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By Bob Garver<\/p>\n\n\n\n

            There\u2019s\na big mistake at the heart of \u201cThe Invisible Man\u201d and that\u2019s letting us know\nfrom the very title that there is indeed an invisible man. And if there was any\nconfusion as to the literality of that title, most of us were introduced to\nthis film through a trailer that shows people being physically attacked by an\ninvisible force. These people aren\u2019t paying tribute to Edward Norton in \u201cFight\nClub,\u201d an invisible attacker is the only explanation. We\u2019re going to be\nspending this entire movie knowing there\u2019s an invisible man, and as futile as\nthis sounds, looking for an invisible man as well. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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            Elisabeth\nMoss stars as Cecilia Kass, the ex-girlfriend of the dominating Adrian Griffin\n(Oliver Jackson-Cohen). She flees from his house in the middle of the night into\nthe car of her sister Emily (Harriet Dyer, an unfortunate name for someone in a\nviolent suspense movie) and recovers at the home of her cop friend James (Aldis\nHodge) and his daughter Sydney (Storm Reid). Though technically free of Adrian,\nshe becomes (or remains) an introvert because she can feel that he\u2019s still out\nthere somewhere, watching her. She then learns from Adrian\u2019s brother Tom\n(Michael Dorman) that Adrian has died and left her $5 million. She supposes\nthat this should make her feel better, but she still doesn\u2019t feel totally free.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

            Soon\nstrange things start happening around James\u2019s house. A pan on the stove bursts\ninto flames. It gets put out with a fire extinguisher, which establishes that\nthis family has a fire extinguisher, so it can predictably be used for some\ninvisible man shenanigans later (the same is true of a conspicuous new ladder\nand a painting project). Something seems to tug on Cecilia\u2019s bed sheet. Is she\ncrazy? She then gets accosted in the shower. Nope, she\u2019s not crazy. No way this\nis anything but Adrian, still trying to make her life miserable, in a suit that\nmakes the wearer invisible. Good luck proving it, though. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

            The\nrest of the film is Cecilia trying to outmaneuver her imperceptible adversary. She\u2019s\nhindered by a lack of believability, since she has a history of mental illness,\nthe person stalking her is supposedly dead, and invisibility suits aren\u2019t real.\nPlus she has to deal with the suit itself; even though she knows it\u2019s there,\nshe doesn\u2019t know if her tormentor is ten feet away or two feet away, which puts\nher at a disadvantage for combat. The one advantage she does have is that the\nvillain isn\u2019t great at subtlety, often manipulating matter in a way that by all\naccounts should give him away. Witnesses don\u2019t have to make the connection that\nit\u2019s the dead guy in an invisibility suit, but certain actions are clearly not\nbeing performed by any discernable presence. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

            \u201cThe\nInvisible Man\u201d is getting excellent reviews (its Rotten Tomatoes score is\ncurrently higher than nearly half the field of the most recent Best Picture\nOscar race), but I can\u2019t say I share in the praise. Yes, Moss gives the\nmaterial a better performance than it deserves, and it is fun watching some\nspecial effects involving a stunt performer made invisible with green-suit\ntechnology (Moss is not just struggling with air when she\u2019s being dragged\naround by the invisible man), but most of the action and suspense scenes are\nriddled with clich\u00e9s and stupidity. Also, I couldn\u2019t help but feel like the\nfilm wasn\u2019t capitalizing on the potential for a storyline where both Cecilia\nand the audience wonder if she really is crazy, if maybe crippling doubt is the\nform Adrian\u2019s revenge is taking. But no, we are simply promised an invisible\nman, and what we get is a simple \u201cInvisible Man.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Grade: C<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Invisible Man\u201d is rated R for\nsome strong bloody violence, and language. Its running time is 124 minutes. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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