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Vanishing subplots and all-around poor storytelling plague this weary update of the horror classic “Invasion of the Body Snatchers.”
Don Siegel’s 1956 original is a definitive noir horror movie, before being remade in 1978 by Philip Kaufman, and again in 1994 by Abel Ferrara.
Director Oliver Hirschbiegel’s “Invasion” sits as the worst of the remakes thanks in a large part to screenwriter David Kajganich’s mishandling of the material’s intrinsic social satire attributed to Jack Finney’s source novel.
An alien virus takes over humans after entering the atmosphere during the crash of an American space shuttle.
Washington, DC single parent divorcee, psychiatrist Carol Bennell (Nicole Kidman) makes the mistake of leaving her young son Oliver (Jackson Bond) in the care of her, unbeknownst virus-infected, estranged husband Tucker (Jeremy Northam).
Good thing Carol has close friend Ben Driscoll (Daniel Craig), a hot shot doctor with access to a lab that analyzes the alien spore attacking human DNA once its victim falls asleep.
But Ben isn’t so great when he inexplicably abandons Carol to fend for herself in locating and rescuing her son.
A tiny bit of political bent comes in leftist polemical dialogue presented through television newscasts and in an impossibly ridiculous dinner scene.
Oliver Hirschbiegel’s impressive historic war feature “Downfall”(2004) showed the heights the filmmaker is capable of accomplishing, and this is not it.
Rated PG-13. 99 mins.
