This movie which they are calling a modern day reboot of the 1933 classic took a scary and tragic character and made him a one-dimensional jump scare. In the 2020 film the Invisible Man uses his invisibility to stalk and terrorize his ex which is scary for her and anybody who wants to help her but does not really fill me with any sense of dread. Now the 1933 Invisible Man he killed at random and most of the time he killed people he didn't even know. A police chief, a couple of people out trying to find him he pushed them off a cliff and he even caused a train to derail killing who knows how many innocent people.
Next we come to character himself in the 2020 film he is just a one dimensional abusive boyfriend pretty who is given no character development. Now in the 1933 film the Invisible Man he was once a good kind gentle man who truly loved his girlfriend but the drugs he took to make himself invisible gradually drive him insane and transform him into a homicidal killer. And thus there is the tragedy of the 1933 character a once good man turned evil.
And finally we come to last disappointment the means by which they achieve invisibility in the 2020 movie it is a suit which means anyone can put it on and become invisible or make copies of it and create a whole armies of invisible people.Also since it is a suit he can just take it off whenever he wants and be visible again. In the 1933 film it is a chemical formula that only he knows meaning he can be the only invisible one in the story and he as no way of becoming visible again in the movie he was trying to to cure his invisibility but eventually the madness from the drugs overtook him. And once again this makes him a tragic figure.
So there you go you have a scary but still tragic character vs. a non-scary one-dimensional character which one would you want to watch?
Next we come to character himself in the 2020 film he is just a one dimensional abusive boyfriend pretty who is given no character development. Now in the 1933 film the Invisible Man he was once a good kind gentle man who truly loved his girlfriend but the drugs he took to make himself invisible gradually drive him insane and transform him into a homicidal killer. And thus there is the tragedy of the 1933 character a once good man turned evil.
And finally we come to last disappointment the means by which they achieve invisibility in the 2020 movie it is a suit which means anyone can put it on and become invisible or make copies of it and create a whole armies of invisible people.Also since it is a suit he can just take it off whenever he wants and be visible again. In the 1933 film it is a chemical formula that only he knows meaning he can be the only invisible one in the story and he as no way of becoming visible again in the movie he was trying to to cure his invisibility but eventually the madness from the drugs overtook him. And once again this makes him a tragic figure.
So there you go you have a scary but still tragic character vs. a non-scary one-dimensional character which one would you want to watch?