The Invisible Man was directed by
LeighWhannell and stars Elisabeth Moss as a woman fleeing from an abusive
boyfriend but when she learns that he's committed suicide and she's inherited
five million dollars things seem okay for a while until an invisible force
starts to stalk her and she believes this man has found a way to become
invisible Leigh Whannell has been one of my favorite people working in movies
today since saw having written that film and shooting it on such a shoestring
budget with James Wan and starring in it then working on insidious and upgrade
which he directed which was awesome I was very excited to see this movie but after
films like I Frankenstein the Wolfman Dracula Untold and The Mummy having
another one of universals famous monsters being remade gave me some pause
gratefully this is nothing like those movies at all this is are imagining that
works in spades I know that you can technically include the Invisible Man with
Frankenstein and the mummy and Dracula and all that but I never really thought
they were of the same vein yeah Universal owns rights and there are all kinds of
random shit but I always thought it was more of a sci-fi which is definitely
what HD Welles was going for with his original novella and Leigh Whannell has
found a way to make this feel very modern this is slight science fiction but
it's really more of a horror-thriller and at its center is an excellent
performance by Elisabeth Moss who continues to impress and everything she does
she's really damn good in this movie and you feel for her a lot because you can
totally relate to what she's going through even if you're not a woman fleeing
from an abusive man more than l likely at some point in your life you have felt
controlled by someone or gaslighted by someone or someone's made you feel like
you're not worth anything and this is why I care so much about her character in
this movie because not only that as this invisible man starts to torment her
and it becomes apparent that she has to do something about it naturally she
can't explain that to anybody nobody understands what she's going through if
you say I'm being attacked by an invisible man you just look like a crazy a person which is why
I'm kind of surprised this reimagining happen sooner
because if you were to take that original story and put it in2020 this is the
way to do it it's a smart emotionally effective and cost-effective way to make
a movie when you can build so much tension around something that isn't even on
set because he constantly films couches or he'll pan away from an actor to the
corner of the room and he's suggesting that this guy is sitting in that couch
or he's standing in the corner and you start to look around even though you
know you're not gonna see him you look for signs that he's there is a lot of
scenes where he may not have been and that's due to some really great
suggestion with the camera and this movie proves what horror fans and some
really good filmmaker shave been saying for years and that's that suggesting
things with the camera making your audience question what they're looking at
introducing some mystery making you lean forward and wonder did I just see what
I think I saw that's how you produce good scares it's not about loud noises
yeah there are some effective jump scares in this movie but none of them are
cheap they're all really well done and the use of sound is really important to
this movie because there's plenty of sequences that are very silent and you're
almost listening for this guy's breath this movie easily could have been very
cheesy but it's committed to the psychological aspect of this horror what it's
doing to Elisabeth Moss and what it's doing to her relationships because this a guy is super smart and he's got a plan and you can see it all coming into
motion like dominoes just toppling perfectly the way he wants them to to make
this woman look as crazy as possible but you're on her side so it's kind of an
underdog story in a way too can't sing the directing and the acting enough
praises all of that's really good the script is also pretty good there's some
good dialogue al thought here are some plot holes and some inconsistencies
about certain things that I don't want to get into because of spoilers but
I'll
traverse it carefully there's an aspect about transportation how someone is
getting to and from places that kind of left me wondering at the end of the
movie how exactly that took place there's a very apparent uber driver parked
outside someone's gate and I don't how they missed that driver waiting there I
I there's just there are certain questions that I have haven't you seen the movie that that kind of led me down a path of movie logic every movie has that
you know where certain things just have to happen and the filmmaker is
hoping you accept it even though it's a bit of a coincidence or it probably
wouldn't happen that way in real life there's a scene at a restaurant where if
there is just even one security camera the movie ends basically or at least
some of the tension ends and there's just a lot of questions that could be
easily answered with security cameras and in a film that references security
cameras often in someone's house outside someone's house you would think that
they would also cover those bases too it's a very easy fix instead of having
that scene in a crowded restaurant it could have been in someplace more private
but at the same time for it to have its effect it had to be in front of people
and so there's just there are questions that sort of relate to movie logic and if
you're one of those people like me that sometimes goes hmm I don't know about
that there's a few parts of the movie that might bug you but really those
moments are few and far between and I don't think it did much at all to detract
from my enjoyment of the movie because it was just so well acted and so well
made and I respected their reimagining rather than like having Aaron Eckhart
fight a bunch of monsters and Tom Cruise run from some fucking bugs what was he
running from scorpions I don't fucking know the mummy god damn I'm gonna give
the Invisible Man of b-plus I am really excited to see what else Leigh Whannell
do I understand he's working on an escape from New York film that's exciting
that that bad excites me guys thank you so much as always for look forward to
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