In Burnaby, Nick Powell (Justin Chatwin) is an excellent high-school student that raises money selling homeworks and results of quizzes to his schoolmates. He aims to travel secretly London to have a course of writer and he tells his best friend is Pete Egan (Chris Marquette) that he has already bought the airplane ticket but he has not told to his mother yet. Meanwhile the punk and smalltime thief Annie Newton (Margarita Levieva) has a problem with Pete, who owes money to her. Nick pays the debts of his friend and the angry Annie attacks Nick in the messroom. In the night, Annie and her boyfriend Marcus Bohem (Alex O'Loughlin) that is in parole rob a car and Annie breaks a jewelry window and steals the exposed jewels. When Annie tells Marcus that she will not share her theft, he anonymously denounces Annie to the police. The police go to the high-school and open Annie's locker, and the girl assumes that Pete has rat her. Later Annie and her gang attack Pete and the coward teenager to protect himself tells that actually Nick has called the police; then the raged trio chases Nick and beats him to death, dumping his body in a sewer. On the next morning, Nick goes to school and finds that he is actually a spirit, invisible for people. Further, he tries to communicate with the living to find his body since he is still alive.
"The Invisible" has a promising original idea of a spirit in limbo while his body is in coma. The beginning of this movie is excellent and without clichés and developed in an adequate pace and good development of characters. However, the writer in a certain moment wastes the plot with a corny and implausible romantic situation. How could a handsome teenager that has no problem with girls fall in love for the girl that tried to kill him a couple of days ago? This dull situation really spoiled the movie since it is not believable. Pete is one of the most despicable characters I have recently seen in a movie. At least, the writer gives a decent conclusion in the end and Annie has the deserved fate. My vote is seven.
Title (Brazil): "O Invisível" ("The Invisible")
"The Invisible" has a promising original idea of a spirit in limbo while his body is in coma. The beginning of this movie is excellent and without clichés and developed in an adequate pace and good development of characters. However, the writer in a certain moment wastes the plot with a corny and implausible romantic situation. How could a handsome teenager that has no problem with girls fall in love for the girl that tried to kill him a couple of days ago? This dull situation really spoiled the movie since it is not believable. Pete is one of the most despicable characters I have recently seen in a movie. At least, the writer gives a decent conclusion in the end and Annie has the deserved fate. My vote is seven.
Title (Brazil): "O Invisível" ("The Invisible")