The Invasion (2007)

Director: Oliver Hirschbiegel

Cast: Daniel Craig, Jeffrey Wright, Jackson Bond, Nicole Kidman, Veronica Cartwright, Jeremy Northam

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Release Date: 8/17/2007

Genre: Sci-Fi

Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures

Offical Website: http://theinvasionmovie.warnerbros.com/

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Release Dates:

Country	Release Type	Date
United States	Theatrical Wide Release	8/17/2007
United States	DVD/Blu-ray Release	1/8/2008

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08/25/2007 @ 12:00 AM

It falls far short as an effective sci-fi thriller, not to mention the brainy political allegory it's determined to be.

Dana Stevens, Slate

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08/17/2007 @ 12:00 AM

Nicole Kidman's character struggles to stay awake -- as will the audience.

Lou Lumenick, New York Post

Next time the aliens come invading, they may want to pass the brains, hold the lecture.

Scott Bowles, USA Today

We'll have to wait until the inevitable director's cut DVD to find out what Hirschbiegel really wanted to say. It would have to be a whole lot more interesting than this accidental agit-prop, which equates pacifism with mindlessness.

Peter Howell, Toronto Star

The Invasion connects on a gut level in two ways, political and existential.

Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle

The Invasion has a few things to offer both summer-movie audiences and more thoughtful film buffs.

Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger

There is nothing here to be taken seriously, let alone fear.

Jack Mathews, New York Daily News

Resistance is futile -- unless your screenplay can offer pat, absurd plot turns.

Bruce Westbrook, Houston Chronicle

It might have been nice to see Hirschbiegel's original concept play out. As it is, the film's essential eeriness gets mashed into Hollywood hogwash.

Tom Long, Detroit News

There have been two official remakes of Invasion, and both tapped into the original's fear and dread of a society subverted by the others. This one taps only into that part of the brain that shuts down when confronted with witless tedium.

Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press

If you're familiar with the earlier films, The Invasion is even less satisfying.

Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post

The movie offers plenty of smarts and imaginative distractions to counter the stacking of improbabilities.

Tom Maurstad, Dallas Morning News

It may not be a patch on the original, but it does have a few things the other versions lack: a nonstop lurching pace propelled by jump cuts and flash-forwards, Nicole Kidman as the hero... and a bitter kind of satiric irony leaking around the edges.

Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader

In the way that certain baseball games become pitchers' duels, some movies are cutting-room battles.

Ty Burr, Boston Globe

If the first three movies served as parables for their times, this one keeps shooting off parable rockets that fizzle out. How many references in the same movie can you have to the war in Iraq and not say anything about it?

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

A movie that is ultimately a soulless clone of a vibrant original and, thus, a splendidly dull example of the very forces it warns us against -- the forces of grey and passion-sapping conformity.

Rick Groen, Globe and Mail

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08/16/2007 @ 12:00 AM

Except for one terrifically adroit sequence in a subway, there is nothing understated about The Invasion.

Joanne Kaufman, Wall Street Journal