Do not trust anyone. Do not show emotion. Do not fall asleep.
Not currently showing on the local cinema circuit.
| Cast |
Nicole Kidman, Daniel Craig, Jeremy Northam, Jackson Bond, Jeffrey Wright, Veronica Cartwright |
| Director |
Oliver Hirschbiegel |
| Screenplay | David Kajganich, based on the novel by Jack Finney |
| Music | John Ottman |
| Cinematography | Rainer Klausmann |
| Editing | Hans Funck, Joel Negron |
| Sound formats | Dolby Digital, Sony Dynamic Digital Sound, DTS |
| Made in | 2007 |
| Produced by | Warner Bros. Pictures, Village Roadshow Pictures, Silver Pictures, Vertigo Entertainment, Oliver Pictures |
Official Site | IMDB page | ScreenIt Report
Trailer: Medium
| Genre | Thriller, science fiction |
| Language | None |
| Nudity | None |
| Sex | None |
| Violence | Frequently, mild to strong within context |
| Prejudice | None |
| Blasphemy | None |
| Drug abuse | None |
| Comments | Mankind gets saved from being killed and invaded by an alien virus from the outer world. |
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Blood / Gore / Gross |
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Alcohol / Drugs |
Smoking |
Disrespectful / Bad Attitude |
Imitative Behaviour |
| Frightening / Tense Scenes |
Jump Scenes |
Tense Family Scenes |
| Music (Scary/Tense) |
Music (Inappropriate) |
Topics to talk about |
| Scale (Max) | 20 |  |
What the Critics say | ||
| Cape Argus / The Star Kirk Honeycutt  Highly infected, but not very infectious. | 5 |  |
| Die Burger Sonette Lombard Voorspelbaar, vervelig en vergeetbaar. | 5 | |
| Cape Times Kenneth Turan Cast turns B-grade horror up a notch. | 10 |  |
| The Citizen Peter Feldman Hirschbiegel, who also made the highly praised Downfall, allows the film to vacillate between creepy and utter mayhem and fails dismally to keep a tight reign on proceedings. | 8 | |
| BBC Paul Arendt 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. | 5 | |
| Chicago Sunday Times Roger Ebert Here is a great story born to be creepy, and the movie churns through it like a road company production. | 10 | |
| ReelViews James Berardinelli The Invasion doesn't know what it wants to be - an action film, a horror movie, a science fiction allegory, a mother/son bonding picture - and , as a result, it ends up being none of the above. | 10 | |
| ScreenItSadly, all this physical commotion eventually prevails over the film's more complicated ideas about fear, independence, and social order. | 10 | |
| Metacritic.com 31 critics | 9 | |
| Rottentomatoes critics 133 critics | 9 | |
| Rottentomatoes tomatometer Tomatometer Slickly made, but it lacks psychological insight and thrills. | 4 | |
What the People say | ||
| Internet 3690 Netizens Awesome remake, with an artistic touch | 12 |  |
Average .. 40% | 8 | |