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INVISIBLE MAN is a taut, tense thriller that kicks off with a tense scene and never really lets up to give the audience a moment to breathe: a film that messes with expectations right down to the final climax.......It's a common trope that movie trailers can give away a movie: it's not uncommon for trailers to show the set-up, development, & climactic set-pieces and one can walk into a film with a decent, generalized idea of how the film will unfold. For awhile I thought that was the case with THE INVISIBLE MAN, but this film subverts that trope and delivers an exciting horror movie worthy a revisit to a classic Universal Monster
I might even see this film. Yet my heart protests. I am simply tired of folk trying to capitalize on prior films in name only --those have little or no relation to the original/classic....other than the title. Arrrrrgggh!
For all intents and purposes this is a 100% original story. The only commonality is someone figures out how to make themselves "invisible" and does nefarious things. HG Wells' version is, of course, over 120 years old and it makes sense to me to take an incredibly broad concept and 'spin' it for modern relevancy. I think one can probably say this film is true to the original spirit of the original (I read the original novel in middle school and that was a loooooooong time ago). This film _almost_ feels like a variation of GONE GIRL: rich and famous person fakes their death in order to plot an incredibly complex revenge plot against their lover whom they've grown distant from. Now that I think about it, GONE GIRL is probably more graphic in the violence & language department (that Neil Patrick Harris scene in GONE GIRL = yowzers!!).IMO if Universal wants to revive their classic 'Universal Monsters' characters, this is a _MUCH_ better way to go than that Tom Cruise THE MUMMY debacle. I'd be 100% fine with Blumhouse continuing with the Universal Monsters characters for more revisits. These classics, IMO, are ripe for reimaginings
100% agree with you thoughts about INVISIBLE MAN. Gosh, I'd almost forgotten about GONE GIRL and the Neil Patrick Harris nude scene.Yes, marcia29. Do give this one another chance.