The Invisible Man

by Le Anne Lindsay, Editor

Yes! This is a GO SEE IT!!!! Writer/Director Leigh Whannell has presented us with a fine thriller starting scene 1 – You become immediately invested in the escape without having seen who, why, where an escape is even needed.

The movie would be very good with another actress in the main role, but of course, my girl crush, Elisabeth Moss kicks it into great! She’s so good at making you feel her pain and share in her victories.

I’m not gonna say much more cause I don’t want to give anything away. But I will say, I have read H.G. Well‘s book “The Invisible Man” – and I like that although the storylines are completely different, the main component is the same – the invisible man is a complete dick, a narcissistic, mad man who uses his brilliance to torment.

T&T the Large Association of Movie Blogs (aka the LAMb) rating 4 outta 5

@DeadlineHollywood – “While arthouse-mixed-with-genre can often divide horror fans (i.e. Midsommar, Crimson Peak), socially conscious genre fare clicks, resonates, and wins all around with critics and audiences, and that’s what we’re seeing here again with Invisible Man in the wake of Universal/Blumhouse’s Oscar-winning blockbuster Get Out and Jordan Peele’s second directorial, Us.

Universal knows that in a cookie cutter brand major motion picture event world, it pays to be truly unique. They learned that the hard way when they executed that old fashioned formula of star (Tom Cruise)+ franchise (The Mummy). It didn’t necessarily yield a box office result like it would in the 1980s, 1990s, or the early aughts (and there were other things that were wrong with that 2017 movie).

When turning a noted property, like Invisible Man, on its head, you have to keep it cheap, and trust in a visionary. Australian Insidious Chapter 3 and Upgrade filmmaker Whannell walked onto the Uni lot and pitched his own twist on H.G. Wells’ Invisible Man (it’s not about the man, rather the woman, specifically the invisible man’s girlfriend), rather than being shackled with some pre-conceived tropes of a dusty property”…