Up next on the chopping block is The Invisible. After watching the trailer on their myspace page months back I really wanted to see this film. Looked like a creative detective story with death and ghosts as the main topic. The movie follows Justin Chatwin as a high school teen that is murdered one night and comes back to life as a ghost. He must solve his own murder and bring the wrong doers to justice. This was what I got from the trailer. This is NOT what the film delivers!I was highly disappointed, it had a lot of potential but failed to carry through on any of it. Being the victim of false advertising I wish there was a 1-800 number I could call to regain the 2 hours of my life. Directed by David S. Goyer and written by Mick Davis this film lacked anything it hoped to become.
Mr. Davis does not have a lot of decent writing credits to his name yet and this film doesn't help him any. I am most disappointed in Mr. Goyer and the Hollywood machine. Mr. Goyer who is a talented guy, wrote all the Blade films (directing the 3rd installment himself), wrote a lot of the episodes and produced the Blade TV series, and most notably wrote the 2 new Batman films, Batman Begins & the upcoming Dark Knight.
The main character, Justin Chatwin seems to be a talented actor, but you'd never know by watching this film. With his blank stares, emotionless reactions, I can't help but feel that he was numbing it down in vein of him being a ghost and all. Bad idea.
The next character, who may have played a bigger role in the movie as Justin ended up becoming alot of background noise. Her name is Margarita Levieva (A name that makes Lindsey Lohan salivate). Again she seems to be a talented actress put into the wrong role and given some less than fantastic scenes to deliver. Her character was one of the worst I have seen yet. She is a beautiful 105lb attractive young woman who they take the makeup off and give her a hat to tuck her hair in. Then I am lead to believe she is the next Tony Soprano at her local Seattle High School as all the students run from her when she comes a knocking. Oh but she's so tortured in life, that's why she behaves this way.... boohoohoo, get over it sweetheart, we all have a story. I found myself not caring at all for her and wanted to see her get hit by a rogue missle or something.
She is thrust into the forefront of the movie half way through as we watch her demise get deeper and poorly deal with her shitty life. (Come to think of it, Lindsey Lohan would have been perfect for the role)
The characters were forced and false, the story broken and choppy, the action slow and boring. And I would imagine this movie probably had one of the most expensive soundtrack budgets ever paid. From Death Cab to Tool each song played at full length, was like a 110min music video.
I generally try to stay positive on this blog, so with that the movie looked great. For all it's flaws the cinematography was beautiful. How can you go wrong shooting a movie up in the Pacific Northwest? I can't say enough that this film had all the pieces. Creative concept, budget, talented people, but lacked execution. It still blows my mind why so much time & money is put into a production and they never really focus on the story.
I had to call this movie out. So no others had to endure what I went through, it's not worth it man, take the dvd out..... don't say I didn't warn you.
In the famous words of Mr. Arie Gold on Entourage... "I can sell any shitty movie with a great trailer". Touché Mr. Gold, Touché.
