The Invasion (2007) Critic Reviews

Connects on a gut level in two ways, political and existential.Read the full review

Still effectively creepy and surprisingly unnerving despite the occasional misstep and rumors of a troubled production, the new film illustrates why and how the power of the original story remains undiminished more than half a century after its creation.Read the full review

An involving sci-fi action-thriller, probably longer on chase sequences than the original director wanted and shorter on the "ick" factor than the studio wanted.Read the full review

The movie isn't terrible; it's just low-rent and reductive.Read the full review

On the technical side, The Invasion has several first-rate, terrifying action sequences and grips totally from start to finish. But a subplot involving the Russian Embassy doesn't really pay off, and the relationship between Kidman and glum paramour Daniel Craig (another doc) isn't much.Read the full review

Buried somewhere within the bipolar extravaganza that is The Invasion is an awfully good movie that got away.Read the full review

Here is a great story born to be creepy, and the movie churns through it like a road company production. If the first three movies served as parables for their times, this one keeps shooting off parable rockets that fizzle out.Read the full review

It's a shame the aliens are so preachy, because this remake of the 1956 and 1978 versions of Invasion of the Body Snatchers features a top-notch cast in Nicole Kidman and Daniel Craig and moments of unnerving terror.Read the full review

A slick but forgettable, characterless thriller.Read the full review