| Original Score: D | Jan 24, 2012

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

Having established an effectively creepy mood in the first half, the film eventually degenerates into a muddled mess, with Nicole and Daniel Craig dodging zombies while popping amphetamines in a desperate effort to stay awake. We know how they feel.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 16, 2007

Novelist Jack Finney's body snatchers have appeared in some fine movies, but the only disturbing-looking thing here is what they've done to Nicole Kidman's lips.

| Oct 12, 2007

If not a train-wreck, this is certainly more than a fender-bender. In a world overflowing with targets for a satirical pasting, we needed something a lot sharper than this.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 10, 2007

Yawn.

| Original Score: 0.5/5 | Sep 1, 2007

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

| Aug 25, 2007

There's much to recommend here. But there are too many inconsistencies.

Full Review | Aug 20, 2007

Labeling it a mess would be to understate the case; a more apt description would be that it's chaotic to the point of being anarchic.

| Aug 18, 2007

Opting for car chases instead of the thought-provoking ideas of its predecessors, the film looks like the work of, if not pod people, folks who gave up any kind of passion for the material long before the cameras started to roll.

Full Review | Original Score: C- | Aug 17, 2007

The latest and lamest version of Invasion of the Body Snatchers might have been an accidental camp classic if its politics weren't so abhorrent and the movie didn't try to hide its ineptitude behind a veil of pomposity.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Aug 17, 2007

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

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Aug 17, 2007

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

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 17, 2007

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Aug 17, 2007

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

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 17, 2007

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

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Aug 17, 2007

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

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 17, 2007

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.

| Original Score: C | Aug 17, 2007

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Aug 17, 2007

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

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 17, 2007