The Invasion [Blu-ray] | ![The Invasion [Blu-ray]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51EJILWZh-L._SL500_.jpg)
| Directors: James Mcteigue, Oliver Hirschbiegel
Actors: Nicole Kidman, Daniel Craig, Jeremy Northam, Jackson Bond, Jeffrey Wright
Studio: Warner Home Video
Category: DVD
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Rating:  107 reviews
Sales Rank: 17972
Format: Ac-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Subtitled, Widescreen
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Dubbed), Spanish (Dubbed)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: Blu-ray
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 99 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: 117618
UPC: 085391176183
EAN: 0085391176183
ASIN: B0010HOZS0
Theatrical Release Date: 2007
Release Date: January 29, 2008
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The Invasion deserves a second chance on DVD. This ambitious sci-fi thriller represents a flawed yet worthy attempt to bring contemporary vitality to Jack Finney's classic science fiction novel, previously filmed as Don Siegel's 1956 classic Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Philip Kaufman's suspenseful 1978 remake, and Abel Ferrara's highly underrated Body Snatchers from 1994. And while those earlier films are superior in many respects, The Invasion is not without strengths of its own, particularly for those who prefer action and suspense. Unfortunately these strengths were compromised by the unpredictable misfortunes of production: Original director Oliver Hirschbiegel (hired on the strength of Downfall) was eventually replaced by James McTiegue (V for Vendetta), and the Wachowski Brothers (of Matrix trilogy fame) added high-octane action sequences to the original screenplay by David Kajganich. Perhaps the movie had a curse on it (star Nicole Kidman was almost seriously injured in a stunt-car mishap during last-minute reshoots), but it's really just a matter of disparate ingredients that don't always fit together, resulting in a slick-looking film that can't decide if it's a sci-fi mystery, action thriller, or political allegory. It tries too hard to be all things at once. Despite this, Kidman rises to the occasion with a solid performance as Carol, a Washington, D.C. psychiatrist who's convinced (with the help of costars Daniel Craig and Jeffrey Wright) that a flu-like virus is spreading throughout the population, its alien spores turning victims into soulless "pod people"... only in this case without the pods. The idea is that you'll be fine if you don't fall asleep, and especially if you don't let anyone sneeze or vomit on you. (There's a lot of vomiting; don't say you weren't warned.) With a crashing space shuttle to deliver the alien threat, cute tyke Jackson Bond as Carol's threatened son, and a nod to Kaufman's film with a small role for Veronica Cartwright, The Invasion will surely fare better on DVD than it did in theaters. If nothing else, it proves the timeless relevance of Finney's original premise, which continues to inspire a multitude of variations. --Jeff Shannon
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 To believe it is too simple July 3, 2009
Jacques COULARDEAU (OLLIERGUES France)
One more invasion in the history of the cinema ? Banal. But this one is not that banal because it really updates the fear. Not invaded by some kind of ugly green monster, please. Nor an egg laying alien. Let's be more modern and be invaded by something that is invisible and yet kind of ugly. Or rather gross, like some expectoration from a throat invaded by a serious infection. Gooey, gluey, inducing vomiting more than attraction. At the same time, beyond the bla bla about the DNA and its reprogramming when the subject is falling asleep, there is another myth: peace. To transform the most brutal and ferocious surviving animal species on earth and probably in the whole universe if not cosmos into a peaceful, peace loving and peace seeking bunch of automata. That's a dream for sure. Why not after all, to finally be able to love everyone and to forget and forgive all the evil the others have done to us, even if we have done to them maybe things that were worse. The peace you can only find during a funeral, provided no one has drunk himself or herself into a tantrum. That kind of future is frightening because you do not control yourself any more and also because there would be no fun in life any more, since fun is adventure, cops and robbers, wars, torturing chambers, dungeons, and a few dragons for fun on top of it all to crown the ice-cream with a nice cherry, you know the cherry you have forcefully taken from your neighbor yesterday night in the garden, though you just can't remember neither the sex, nor the age, nor the name or identity of that neighbor who just was there next to you when you had a sudden desire to eat a cherry and break it in. We can't really take that kind of fun away from all of us. Some of us need that fun, and I may say that maybe most of us need it. The film plays on that very well, till there is no escape what-so-ever, and there the film becomes a quick shortcut to a palatable end, after getting a glimpse of George W. Bush on TV. The poor woman and her son will manage to kill a few regenerated human beings who are no longer human, then she or they will kill a couple of dozens more ,and finally escape in a chopper that was handily flying by, and then on the following frame everything is back to normal, a vaccine has been found and the millions of weirdo sickly mutants have been brought back to normal. It is so nice to go back to school, to have pancakes that are not burnt, etc. The suspense is OK, the story is nothing phenomenal, Nicole Kidman wears and carries or even bears her name well, oscillating between the frenzy of a kid and the determination of an adult, but with a touch of French looking erratic psychosis. It is probably not worse than the old "Body snatchers" and the more recent remake of "The War of the Worlds". Just entertaining, though not that much inspiring.
Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne, University Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelines, CEGID
 Brainless remake. June 22, 2009
ADRIENNE MILLER (TENNESSEE)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The Invasion is another Hollywood remake on a classic film. Nicole Kidman and Daniel Craig try their best to make up for the pathetic script and the erratic pace of the movie. This film is disguisting, there is a lot of vomit and gore in this film, so don't watch if you have a weak stomach. The Invasion is complete garbage, I can see why this summer flick bombed a few years back. Avoid at all costs!
Don't waste your time June 9, 2009
Alan Starr (Lawrence, MA)
Not a very good movie, and I got bored halfway through. And I hated the editing.
Mature Reviewer June 7, 2009
K. Kapalko
I can't believe all the bad negative comments on this film. Yes..I've seen all the previous "Invasions". Even both "War of the Worlds"..and even "Plan 9 from Outer Space" and how can we forget "The Shining".
Is it because it doesn't have an open ending like the other ones as this one has more closure on the storyline of the "Invasion" films in the past
I can appreciate also the slower "thought" process of this version. The creepiness of these people once transformed and how well they hide their alien-selves. This storyline allows for the audience to learn more insightful thoughts of the "aliens" and their viewpoints than in previous versions.
The intro dinner scene of the Doctors thoughts on "progressive thinking" is brilliant..it's an insightful poignant conversation eluding to a way of thinking most humans are blinded of based on "their" current living era and of cultures.
I don't think this movie could've been played by younger actors. Seasoned actors and Nicole Kidman was a good choice.
I have also noticed, in the past 20 years..a lack of appreciation for slower developing plots in films. Or is it lack of "attention span" when someone isn't always getting "whacked" on the screen or cars getting smashed.
I think what one has to ask when viewing sci-fi films..is "Is this what I would do if I was her/him?" AND How much fact is going to validate the storyline in this created world.
I think very few sci-fi films allow for full believability. This is of them that satisfies.
I'm finding so many flaws in the new Star Trek and Terminator storylines.
Such as in Star Trek..I don't find it realistic that a Starfleet Officer would eject and "chuck" a student (in a pod) to a death planet where he would be eaten by huge powerful ferocious creatures!
Terminator: I can't see "anti-rejection" drugs being available to organ donors in a post nuke setting! Which invalidated the WHOLE movie right at the end!.
I felt this this version of "Invasions" satisfies completely on this level.
I didn't feel like I was being treated as a complete retard while watching it!
I enjoyed it.
Infection spreads. B- May 10, 2009
Dri the Complex Lonely (USA)
This was quite a good movie. Good characters, decent acting and nice, engulfing action.
It stars Nicole Kidman, a psychiatrist(?) who has to deal with an epidemic spreading around her. She tries to shield her kid and herself from the dangers that are around every corner.
Once people start getting infected, the worry for her son Oliver, who spends an enormous amount of time away from his mother (Kidman) only grows.
This movie features people catching a virus that ultimately, after you fall asleep, creates extra skin all over your body, especially in the face area and makes you almost unrecognizable. That was probably the nastiest part of this story.
I did like, however, how amongst all of the "zombies" were people who weren't infected and helped Nicole's character along the way. They were few and far between but it gave you hope.
All in all, I think this movie is underrated.
B-
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