The Invisible (2007)

User Rating:

6.1/10   

Director:

David S. Goyer

Writers (WGA):

Mick Davis (screenplay) and
Christine Roum (screenplay) ...

Release Date:

27 April 2007 (USA)

Genre:

Crime | Drama | Fantasy | Mystery | Romance | Thriller

Tagline:

Life, death and something in between.

Plot:

After an attack leaves him in limbo -- invisible to the living and also near death -- a teenager discovers the only person who might be able help him is his attacker.

Plot Keywords:

Death | Invisible | High School | Theft | Limbo

Awards:

1 nomination

Cast

Justin Chatwin	...	Nick Powell
Margarita Levieva	...	Annie Newton
Marcia Gay Harden	...	Diane Powell
Chris Marquette	...	Pete Egan
Alex O'Loughlin	...	Marcus Bohem
Callum Keith Rennie	...	Detective Brian Larson
Michelle Harrison	...	Detective Kate Tunney
Ryan Kennedy	...	Matty
Andrew Francis	...	Dean
P. Lynn Johnson	...	Sharon Egan
Serge Houde	...	Martin Egan
Desiree Zurowski	...	Lindy Newton
Mark Houghton	...	Jack Newton
Alex Ferris	...	Victor Newton
Tania Saulnier	...	Suzie

MPAA:

Rated PG-13 for violence, criminality, sensuality and language - all involving teens.

Runtime:

102 min

Country:

USA | Canada

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

SDDS | Dolby Digital | DTS

Certification:

Canada:13+ (Quebec) | Canada:14A (Alberta/Manitoba) | Canada:PG (British Columbia/Ontario) | USA:PG-13 (certificate #42920) | Germany:12 | UK:12A | Portugal:M/12 | Argentina:13 | Singapore:NC-16 | Malaysia:18PL | Australia:M | South Korea:18 | Finland:K-13 | Iceland:14

Filming Locations:

Burnaby Mountain Secondary School, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada

Company:

Hollywood Pictures

Trivia:

A subplot was removed involving drug smugglers. It was feared this would give it an R-rating and wasn't necessary to the plot.

Goofs:

Continuity: When Nick was walking home from the party, he kicked over a big trash can and a trash bag. The big trash can landed in the middle of the street and rested on one of its handles. The very next close up shot of Nick, you can clearly see in the background that the trash bag and trash can are back on the curb.

Quotes:

[first lines]
Diane Powell: It wasn't easy when Nick's father died, raising a teenager alone. But with a boy like Nick, well, he is now everything a mother could want. We've been through some hard times. We've carried each other. Now I look to the future, and I know there's nothing that we can't do together.

Movie Connections:

Remake of Den osynlige (2002)

Soundtrack:

Weak and Powerless

If the Academy Awards had to be divided between this film and "Showgirls," "Showgirls" would make a clean sweep.

Other perceptive IMDBers have noted the myriad flaws that riddle this film. A lousy premise becomes a poorly executed plot bogged down further with bad writing, bad direction, bad performances from the leads and tedious use of a soundtrack. (Someone noted that if you took out all the walking-around-and-staring footage the movie would be cut to an hour. If you took out all the times when the music takes centre stage, you'd be down to 40 minutes, and this film would still be unbearably long.) Callum Keith Rennie is the only saving grace, and he isn't given enough screen time to make up for having to watch the desperately untalented "stars" for the longest 90 minutes of your life.