THE INVASION (2007)

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)

INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS (1978)

Pretty straightforward retelling of the 1956 film, except this time instead of a small town, it's San Francisco.  Health inspector Donald Sutherland's co-worker tells him that her boyfriend is acting distant.  He doesn't think much of it until he starts noticing random people in his life acting distant.  Eventually he uncovers a plot by an aliens to take over humanity using seed pods to duplicate people.

Maybe back in the 70's this movie was exciting, but I was underwhelmed.  There's just not a lot going on.  At first, Sutherland kinda senses something fishy going on, but then when shit finally pops off he just runs around, hides in his house then runs around some more.  He never really tries to escape the city or fight the aliens and then the movie is over.  Maybe I'm jaded by modern blockbusters, but I was just hoping for more.  Not a bad film, just kinda blah.  That scream that Sutherland does though is legendary!

Original - Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
Reboot 1 - Body Snatchers (1993)
Reboot 2 - The Invasion (2007)