The Invisible (2007)
Directed by David S. Goyer
After an attack leaves him in limbo -- invisible to the living and also near death -- a teenager discovers the only person who might be able help him is his attacker.
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The plot sounds like "Rebel Without a Cause " grafted onto "Ghost ," but in fact "The Invisible" is a remake of a 2002 Swedish hit, "Den Osynlige ," which was based on an original novel.
As if in a dream or in the movie Ghost , Nick Powell (Justin Chatwin), a troubled rich kid, can see himself dying in the woods but is powerless to do anything — he’s in limbo and unable to interact with the material world.
In one of the strangest groupings comes David S. Goyer’s The Invisible , which is equal parts The Sixth Sense , Ghost and It’s a Wonderful Life .
Yes, it sounds a bit like “Ghost” with a teenager, only the main character isn’t dead in this film.
It’s a remake of the 2002 Swedish thriller Den Osynlige , but it comes off like a toothless, teenybopper take on Ghost .
"A mash-up of Ghost and The O.C. with a point-of-view directed with uncompromising resolve at the protagonist's navel is bad?" Sadly, yes.
Now, there’s nothing wrong with a romantic fantasy—try Mitchell Leisen’s Death Takes a Holiday (1934) or William Dieterle’s Portrait of Jennie (1948)—but it’s probably not the wisest of moves to try to sell one to a teenage audience as a horror movie.
Now, there’s nothing wrong with a romantic fantasy—try Mitchell Leisen’s Death Takes a Holiday (1934) or William Dieterle’s Portrait of Jennie (1948)—but it’s probably not the wisest of moves to try to sell one to a teenage audience as a horror movie.
Did he really mean to stage a search through the woods that recalls the one in Joe Roth’s Freedomland (2006)?
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The plot sounds like "Rebel Without a Cause " grafted onto "Ghost ," but in fact "The Invisible" is a remake of a 2002 Swedish hit, "Den Osynlige ," which was based on an original novel.
In one of the strangest groupings comes David S. Goyer’s The Invisible , which is equal parts The Sixth Sense , Ghost and It’s a Wonderful Life .
The Invisible is The Sixth Sense set in high school, but with one major difference: When Nick (Justin Chatwin), who has apparently just been killed by a delinquent classmate, returns as a ghost, he instantly figures out what happened, so there's no mystery.
In one of the strangest groupings comes David S. Goyer’s The Invisible , which is equal parts The Sixth Sense , Ghost and It’s a Wonderful Life .
The plot sounds like "Rebel Without a Cause " grafted onto "Ghost ," but in fact "The Invisible" is a remake of a 2002 Swedish hit, "Den Osynlige ," which was based on an original novel.
Based on the 2002 Swedish film Den Osynlige, The Invisible casts Justin Chatwin as Nick Powell - a rebellious teen who must solve his own murder after a schoolyard bully (Margarita Levieva's Annie) leaves him for dead in a desolate forest.
Based on a 2002 Swedish movie, The Invisible contains an intriguing idea, brought only sporadically to life by director David S. Goyer ( Blade: Trinity ).