Yet another reboot of the body snatcher story. This time around the alien
life form is a fungus that's brought to Earth on the space shuttle. Nicole
Kidman is a psychiatrist who keeps hearing people talk about relatives/friends
who are acting strange and not being themselves. At first Nicole dismisses
it, but then when her ex-husband (Jeremy Northam) starts acting weird and
barfing up nasty alien yack all over her face, she starts to see there's
definitely something going on. Turns out that once you're infected (like
she is now) the spore can only take over once you fall asleep...kinda like
Freddy Krueger. So, this means that she has to stay awake long enough to
save her son who has been kidnapped by the aliens because he is immune to the
alien spore due to a childhood illness. Whatever.
I liked THE INVASION alright. The story veered away further from the
original than the other two remakes, so that was interesting, and the acting was
good. Still though I can't ever see myself wanting to watch it
again. It took too long to get to the action and once it did, it was just
your standard fare of cars crashing and people running around. Also, the
ending was weak as hell. Worth a watch if it comes on TV, but I wouldn't
go out of my way for it. Although, Daniel Craig's Goo Goo Dolls haircut
was pretty dope.
Honestly, after watching all four of the body snatchers films I don't think any
of them did the idea justice.
Original - Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
Remake 1 - Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
Reboot 1 - Body Snatchers (1993)
