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User Reviews for: The Invisible Man

Catsy
CONTAINS SPOILERS4/10  4 years ago
This could have been so good. If they dropped the pretense of a horror movie or a science fiction in any way, it would have been an amazing psychological thriller. Inagine there were no jump scares, no loud, booming musical arcs or sudden bangs. It would have been enough.

Cecilia is an abuse victim who has successfully escaped from her boyfriend, who she claims is abusive and has controlled every facet of her life from small to major things. She escapes from her ex one night begging her sister to pick her up. The escape scene itself was really tense except for all the awful jump scares and how long it actually took her to escape.

Cecilia takes her time escaping and definitely doesn't seem to be that smart throughout the entire film. I only appreciate that when she has her breakdown scenes, the actress makes her seem really crazy. There are some logical leaps required for this movie and some information omitted for the purpose of improving the story...

I found the choice of omission really confusing and stupid, there were so many ways that the big bad could have been escaped but in the scope of the story would have solved it so easily. The character of Adrian's brother was really so strange and poor. The guy talks by gritting his teeth, which is immensely distracting. The parts his character were in require suspension of disbelief - like the initial meeting with him to discuss the will. There are only 4 or 5 major characters in this movie and none of the character relationships are explained except for Cecilia having a sister.

The trailer itself actually contains scenes that have been cut from the film - including the conditions around the money that Cecilia receives. Everyone in the movie treats her like she is crazy due to her choices to omit - [spoiler] the door at Jason's house opens by itself, she sees someone standing on the sheet and doesn't say anything. [/spoiler] Within the first 20 minutes the first major story twist is revealed [spoiler]- that Cecilia is not crazy and someone is attacking her...[/spoiler] - and this really changes the tone of the film, which continues to act like a horror or scifi mystery...

As an aside the movie lines talk about how attractive Cecilia is and there are some really stupid long scenes including extras which are clearly some cameos or promos for friends of the producer/crew.

I'm so disappointed this could have been much more, but the movie required so many logical leaps to even make sense.
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