Here we repeat again. Hollywood has another remake/reboot with many more to piggyback. There, however, is a fairly good track record that has actually been just as fine as the original. H.G.Wells has always kept my interest of sci-fi and monster flicks with The War of the Worlds, The Time Machine and The Invisible Man. Well, the later has been reimagined and bought back to the big screen for 2020 still based on the famous H.G.Wells novel.
It turns out this monster movie is something to see thanks to director Leigh Whannell (Saw) and her chilling creative mind. The film opens immedately with an intensifying scene of Cecilia Kass (Elisabeth Moss) with a still silence rising up out of bed so not to wake the man next to her. She makes her escape through the tightly sealed fortress ran by her husband Adrian (Oliver Jackson Cohen) by the San Francisco bay to freedom.
Just as she assumes she was safe taking rufuge in the house of a detective friend James Lanier (Aldis Hodge) and his daughter Sydney (Storm Reid) she hears about her husband death of an apparent suicide. She starts to relax until strange occurances pop up. She begins to suspect he is not dead even though he willed her a bucket load of mula with his shyster brother Tom (the wonderful Michael Dorman) reading the deed. Whannell delivers one surprise after the other but after a while become overloaded.
She eventually figures out he found a way of making himself invisible, tries to tell her sister (Harriet Dyer) but she is murdered in a restaurant and the weapon is placed in Cecilia’s hands. She does some detective work of herself with the help of James and stumbles on to the secret. Although this two hour film has been done before (Kevin Bacon) oh yes, we’ve seen it in similar ways like “Sleeping with the Enemy” and “Enough“, it’s a more monsterous spin on domestic abuse with terrorism mixed in and Moss takes it and runs with it. Wait around long enough we might see more as the comical ending hinted. What I would welcome is a restructured H.G. Wells “The time Machine” again. Heck this summer “The Six Billion Dollar Man” with a lot of inflation will be jumping onto the big screen after many delays. “The Invisible Man” opens everywhere Friday February 28. What you can’t see can harm you. 3 Stars
