The Invasion (2007) 6/10

Starring : Nicole Kidman, Daniel Craig, Jeremy Northam, Jeffrey Wright, Veronica Cartwright
Director : Oliver Hirshbiegel
Running Time : 100 mins

Following the crash of a space shuttle, psychiatrist Carol Bennell (Kidman) starts to notice drastic changes in the behaviour of her patients and her ex-husband. When she finds what looks like a piece of skin, she jumps to the conclusion that an alien virus has come to Earth with the wreckage of the space shuttle; a virus that has the ability to recode human DNA.

This wouldn’t have been a bad take on the Invasion Of The Body-Snatchers idea, but Kidman is practically lacking in personality, and she really needed one to counter the personality-less alien-possessed humans and, even though the infected weren’t supposed to show emotion, a lot of them seemed angry and this really distracted from the story. Coupled with the fact that war seems to be promoted as a simple part of human nature, this really didn’t give the moral message I was hoping for.

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