The Invisible Man |
Australia / USA • 2020 • 124m •
  • Directed by: Leigh Whannell. • Starring: Elisabeth Moss, Storm Reid..  No synopsis is available for this movie.
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Review:
I've just finished watching this and I'm very pleased I watched it for free. Unfortunately I still feel like the movie stole from me, it stole my time.
The movie starts with a character inexplicably drugging her boyfriend and running away from a luxurious home. Plenty of hapless things happen but alas the female lead isn't caught by the boyfriend who smashes a car window (why?). We don't get much in terms of what the relationship was like until later and it's a one sided argument.
We cut to a scene in which we're informed the boyfriend has died and has committed suicide. This is one part of the script that leaves a major plot hole for later on. The boyfriend in his will, gives everything to his now ex girlfriend but sets up a task, she can't commit any crimes otherwise she doesn't get the money. This again creates a massive plot hole later.
Following this, we get the standard hijinks of the invisible man trying to drive her insane and this is honestly the best part of the movie. The way the female lead is manipulated and appears to commit crimes like child abuse and murder should be enough for our female lead to go away and for the invisible man to have his vengeance. End movie. Perfection.
But no. This is the moment of the #metoo era and we can't have that. The brother of the now apparently deceased man comes to the psychiatric facility and tells our female lead that she's pregnant (incredibly this is actually in the movie). This is where the movie begins to unravel and started to go massively off course on the whim of someone who realized the patriarchy must come down.
The aforementioned brother is only short of twirling his little moustache like Dick Dastardly and at this point the audience know he's in on the game. The same lawyer brother produces pictures of his dead rich intelligent brother to the female lead and shows her an urn. Apparently there was no funeral, no other family members, no identification of the body and no police investigating the alleged suicide. Of course we could concoct a theory that the brothers made this all up but wouldn't female leads police friend research this whilst female lead was in his home acting crazy? NOPE.
The movie then has lawyer brother whisper that she keep the baby and go back to the not dead but alive rich brother who's using a suit made of cameras, this idea was likely stolen from predator and it's a clever idea but the idea then has a massive problem later which results in an ending that can be seen a mile away. So we have our sharp pen and female lead sort of tries to slit her wrists and begins to succeed until our invisible man grabs her arm to stop her. This begins the real suspension of disbelief. The woman losing blood from her wrists over powers the invisible man whom she cannot see and begins to stab him whilst he stands there allowing himself to be stabbed. At this point the cameras are starting to break down and glitch.
We then get a scene in which the invisible man wreaks havoc and murders everyone of the guards that see him phase in and out. Here we go, this is the end, the invisible man wins, the female lead is framed to not only have killed her sister, beat a child and single handedly murdered an entire security staff but she'll be basically strapped down now, convicted and the baby will be born and our invisible man has an understudy. Knock knock #metoo is back. The invisible man then begins to run away but only far enough for our female lead to catch up constantly, he could knock her out at any point or shoot her or do any amount of things but he only runs away a little bit. Tediously they get outside, equipment still on the fritz but our female lead is in chase but now has a gun that invisible man kind of kicked towards her. Unbelievable.
The invisible man springs out of nowhere lifts her up and gives another ominous threat whilst taking out two more security guards. Again he kicks a gun within grabbing distance instead of picking it up and runs away to a car. Bare in mind whilst the equipment is on the fritz he could just go somewhere into the forest or surrounding area and hide and wait until security grab our female lead but no, he gets into a car and drives away. Our female lead causes a car collision and steals a car. Add grand theft auto to the list of crimes committed.
With equipment half working our invisible man decides to attack our kind of cop friend's daughter. He beats our kind of cop up but doesn't hear our female lead run in with a fire extinguisher (where'd that come from?) And then proceeds to allow himself to be shot. Hapless.
Our movie ends with the apparently dead rich brother tucked away behind a wall like a Scooby Doo villain saying I didn't do any of this and the cops go alright. What's maddeningly bad is our female lead isn't in the psychiatric hospital or in jail for various crimes committed including murder but is now walking around free.
Cut to our female lead wearing a wire to the exes house to get him to say he did it. What follows is truly stupid. Earlier in the movie female lead is caught removing the camera suit so we have two available suits that we know of. Brother has one and dead boyfriend has the other. So if lawyer brother is now shot then that leaves one unaccounted for suit right? Well dead boyfriend says one word and female lead goes to the bathroom. Incredibly in that amount of time she allegedly walks back out in the suit and helps him cut his own throat and then appears very quickly without the suit on to pretend to be upset. She leaves the home with the suit and tells kind of cop to basically leave her alone now.
What baffles me most is how characters refer to female lead as beautiful and the ex boyfriend apparently clings to someone that looks like Elizabeth moss in spite of all his wealth and him clearly being the far better looking half by a large distance, that's truly unbelievable.
If I could give this trash 0 I would have.
The movie starts with a character inexplicably drugging her boyfriend and running away from a luxurious home. Plenty of hapless things happen but alas the female lead isn't caught by the boyfriend who smashes a car window (why?). We don't get much in terms of what the relationship was like until later and it's a one sided argument.
We cut to a scene in which we're informed the boyfriend has died and has committed suicide. This is one part of the script that leaves a major plot hole for later on. The boyfriend in his will, gives everything to his now ex girlfriend but sets up a task, she can't commit any crimes otherwise she doesn't get the money. This again creates a massive plot hole later.
Following this, we get the standard hijinks of the invisible man trying to drive her insane and this is honestly the best part of the movie. The way the female lead is manipulated and appears to commit crimes like child abuse and murder should be enough for our female lead to go away and for the invisible man to have his vengeance. End movie. Perfection.
But no. This is the moment of the #metoo era and we can't have that. The brother of the now apparently deceased man comes to the psychiatric facility and tells our female lead that she's pregnant (incredibly this is actually in the movie). This is where the movie begins to unravel and started to go massively off course on the whim of someone who realized the patriarchy must come down.
The aforementioned brother is only short of twirling his little moustache like Dick Dastardly and at this point the audience know he's in on the game. The same lawyer brother produces pictures of his dead rich intelligent brother to the female lead and shows her an urn. Apparently there was no funeral, no other family members, no identification of the body and no police investigating the alleged suicide. Of course we could concoct a theory that the brothers made this all up but wouldn't female leads police friend research this whilst female lead was in his home acting crazy? NOPE.
The movie then has lawyer brother whisper that she keep the baby and go back to the not dead but alive rich brother who's using a suit made of cameras, this idea was likely stolen from predator and it's a clever idea but the idea then has a massive problem later which results in an ending that can be seen a mile away. So we have our sharp pen and female lead sort of tries to slit her wrists and begins to succeed until our invisible man grabs her arm to stop her. This begins the real suspension of disbelief. The woman losing blood from her wrists over powers the invisible man whom she cannot see and begins to stab him whilst he stands there allowing himself to be stabbed. At this point the cameras are starting to break down and glitch.
We then get a scene in which the invisible man wreaks havoc and murders everyone of the guards that see him phase in and out. Here we go, this is the end, the invisible man wins, the female lead is framed to not only have killed her sister, beat a child and single handedly murdered an entire security staff but she'll be basically strapped down now, convicted and the baby will be born and our invisible man has an understudy. Knock knock #metoo is back. The invisible man then begins to run away but only far enough for our female lead to catch up constantly, he could knock her out at any point or shoot her or do any amount of things but he only runs away a little bit. Tediously they get outside, equipment still on the fritz but our female lead is in chase but now has a gun that invisible man kind of kicked towards her. Unbelievable.
The invisible man springs out of nowhere lifts her up and gives another ominous threat whilst taking out two more security guards. Again he kicks a gun within grabbing distance instead of picking it up and runs away to a car. Bare in mind whilst the equipment is on the fritz he could just go somewhere into the forest or surrounding area and hide and wait until security grab our female lead but no, he gets into a car and drives away. Our female lead causes a car collision and steals a car. Add grand theft auto to the list of crimes committed.
With equipment half working our invisible man decides to attack our kind of cop friend's daughter. He beats our kind of cop up but doesn't hear our female lead run in with a fire extinguisher (where'd that come from?) And then proceeds to allow himself to be shot. Hapless.
Our movie ends with the apparently dead rich brother tucked away behind a wall like a Scooby Doo villain saying I didn't do any of this and the cops go alright. What's maddeningly bad is our female lead isn't in the psychiatric hospital or in jail for various crimes committed including murder but is now walking around free.
Cut to our female lead wearing a wire to the exes house to get him to say he did it. What follows is truly stupid. Earlier in the movie female lead is caught removing the camera suit so we have two available suits that we know of. Brother has one and dead boyfriend has the other. So if lawyer brother is now shot then that leaves one unaccounted for suit right? Well dead boyfriend says one word and female lead goes to the bathroom. Incredibly in that amount of time she allegedly walks back out in the suit and helps him cut his own throat and then appears very quickly without the suit on to pretend to be upset. She leaves the home with the suit and tells kind of cop to basically leave her alone now.
What baffles me most is how characters refer to female lead as beautiful and the ex boyfriend apparently clings to someone that looks like Elizabeth moss in spite of all his wealth and him clearly being the far better looking half by a large distance, that's truly unbelievable.
If I could give this trash 0 I would have.
Review by venomlifeguard from the Internet Movie Database.
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