The Invasion gives off the persistent feeling that the movie has been torn apart and reassembled so many times that the filmmakers forgot what they set out to do in the first place.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jan 22, 2025

The Invasion is an oddly timely film 17 years after its original release. The tension this all creates in a current rewatch is worth checking it out again, or perhaps for the first time.

| Dec 28, 2024

Audiences pretty much ignored this film in 2007, but way too much of it feels far too resonant in The Now, and it plays like the sharpest and coldest of prophecy.

| Sep 10, 2021

It's a safe bet that The Invasion will be invading local video stores in the not so distant future.

| Original Score: 1.5/4.0 | Sep 12, 2020

As straight-ahead, propulsive, reptilian-brain action, it "works" as often as not. But it's unworthy to stand with its predecessors.

| Dec 12, 2015

Even with its flaws The Invasion is still eerie, provocative and a solid showcase for Kidman.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jan 24, 2012

| Original Score: D | Jan 24, 2012

| Original Score: 1/5 | Nov 18, 2011

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 4, 2011

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 4, 2011

The Invasion is too solidly crafted to be genuinely bad film, but it completely fails to grip as a thriller.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Mar 27, 2011

As ridiculous as The Invasion gets, its competent acting, fast pace, and campy B-movie vibe keep you weirdly transfixed against your better judgment.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 6, 2010

Shoddy and soulless

| Aug 27, 2009

The aliens make it so plainly obvious to their intentions that it'd be ridiculous not to notice what was happening with their landing on Earth...

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 6, 2008

Taken as a more popcorn-y sci-fi flick with a cool look, a tense, creepy feel, and uncommonly handsome leads giving above-average-for-the-genre performances, however, The Invasion is perfectly entertaining.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Aug 27, 2008

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 7, 2008

There are worse ways to spend an hour and a half than staring mindlessly at a movie's impossibly beautiful cast, but there are plenty of better ones as well.

| Jul 31, 2008

The Invasion is the fourth and most recent big screen adaptation of Jack Finney's 1955 science fiction novel The Body Snatchers, and hopefully it will be the last.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Jul 22, 2008

Fails to live up to its own aspirations, undermined by misguided attempts to enliven the action with car wrecks and explosions.

| Jul 14, 2008

This has to be the lamest alien invasion movie since the killer tomatoes attacked.

| Apr 19, 2008