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This movie may not be a masterpiece, but it does offer a few new and interesting ideas into a story that’s been re-imagined several times. I admire that aspect of this version.
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The Invasion (2007)

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The Invasion is the 4th film version of The Body Snatchers, the sf novel by Jack Finney, the previous being Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956), the 1978 remake/follow-up and 1993's Body Snatchers.

This latest version differs from the previous versions in that human beings are not being replaced by pod people, just simply taken over by an alien virus. The main character is a psychiatrist played by Nicole Kidman; she begins to take note of strange changes taking place among the population, via at least one of her patients (played by Veronica Cartwright, who played a similar character in the 1978 version).

The psychiatrist's ex-husband (Jeremy Northam) is one of the first people to be compromised (the alien spore arrived on a crashed space shuttle and he was on the scene). Since he's in charge of the national Disease Control agency, he's in the perfect position to spread the infection quickly. The simplest, most common method is to inject masses of people under the guise of some inoculation protocol (another, more crude method is to spit the alien stuff into a person's mouth).

The 2nd half of the film focuses on Kidman being on the run and in hiding with her son. She has been infected and will 'turn' if she falls asleep. Daniel Craig (the latest James Bond) plays a friend of hers and possible lover, a physician, while Jeffrey Wright is a biologist who is on the front line conducting tests towards the goal of finding a cure.

As with previous versions of the story, those who are infected behave in a mostly emotionless manner and one way to fool the new aliens is to pretend that you have no emotions. Certain people are revealed to be immune, including Kidman's son. There will be no place for them in the new order, even if there will be no violence in this new world. Since there exists the possibility of a cure, it sets things up for a happy ending. Here's where it falls short of the scary, grim tone established by the older versions; in the old versions, once you are replaced, you are gone for good.


BoG's Score: 6.5 out of 10



BoG
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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)