Invisible Man (2020)

Invisible Man (2020) A little history lesson…The Invisible Man is first and foremost a science fiction novel by H. G. Wells, published in 1897. The first film adaptation was The Invisible Thief by Ferdinand Zecca and Segundo de Chomón, in 1909. Then 1933: The Invisible Man by James Whale1940: Joe May’s The Invisible Man Returns, and also A. Edward Sutherland’s The Invisible Woman. Edward Sutherland This is the 22nd film to feature an invisible character. The one before that was Gabriele Salvatores’ Il Ragazzo invisibile (The Invisible Boy). I’m giving a nod to Rodney Skinner, the invisible man in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (sometimes known as LXG), an American-British-German-Czech film by Stephen Norrington, released in 2003. It is a free adaptation of the comic book of the same name by Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill, published in 1999. The film was a commercial success despite very poor reviews. It was the last film in which actor Sean Connery appeared before his retirement. We didn’t get to see the Invisible Man that much (no pun intended!), but he was one of my favourite characters in the cast. Otherwise, I really liked John Carpenter’s Memoirs Of An Invisible Man (1992). Hollow Man (2000) was very interesting and creepy. I haven’t yet seen its sequel, Hollow Man 2 (2006), but I suppose there’s a good chance I’ll be disappointed.

Let’s move on to this film. Invisible Man (2020) sets a hell of a creepy atmosphere straight away. You realise just how terrifying it could be to have an invisible person around, playing with your nerves all the time. I think it’s pretty easy to fall into madness and paranoia.

So this film and its subject had a lot of potential… but it’s very bad. It’s such a mess! The scriptwriters just annihilated it with constant, absurd inconsistencies. At one point, you can see a self-defence spray acting on a character wearing a full body suit! In fact, it’s a disgrace to all Invisible Man classics.

The script is invisible, slick and sleepy, the dialogue disconcertingly silly. You’d think you were in a film like 50 Shades of Grey. It’s so long and predictable… and what a relief it is when the film is over! Quick, review the old versions urgently!!!

It’s badly acted for the most part, none of them really believable, especially not Elizabeth Moss, who always looks falsely bewildered. But who cast her? Why cast her as the lead actress, when she has almost no charisma? She was very badly cast for the role, as she’s one of those people who’s almost mono expressive, without wishing to be unkind. I hope she does better in her other films and series. Completely overrated, I went into this film with high expectations based on early reviews and was very disappointed.

Just an incredibly long film and not worth our waste of time. If you want to watch a film that doesn’t make any sense, or even really has any suspense as it’s pretty predictable, watch this film! What an ordeal! All the charm of invisibility and the imagination it suggests fall flat. Gone! I felt like I was watching a bad, sticky horror film. How to completely ruin a film! Intensely boring and empty, with no depth or flavour. The twist isn’t bad, but it’s not enough. I’ll stop there, because I think that’s enough to put the film in perspective, because, in fact, nothing makes sense, from start to finish. Especially not the actions and reactions of the main protagonist. But doubt hangs over her, because even at the end, we don’t really have an explanation for everything we don’t understand. Did these things really happen? Or was it all schizophrenia?

I’m going to conclude by saying that I don’t like this director, Leigh Whannell at all at the moment. He’s just made the disastrous Wolf Man (2025). Yes, he started out as an actor/writer on films like the first Saw…