Invisible Man, written and directed by Leigh Whannell - Eight out of 10

Invisible Man, written and directed by Leigh Whannell

Eight out of 10

If you accept the premise that technological progress, science advancement would allow inventor to create a complex, sophisticated costume that allows individuals to ‘disappear’ from sight, without protecting them from harm though, then you are off to something, especially considering that the critics and the audiences have appreciated this slick, well made, beautifully acted motion picture that has made an impact on this cinephile.

Alas, Science Fiction is not exactly the preferred genre for everyone and it might not be the best of times to watch a horror movie, now that terror lies just outside…we are all supposed to stay home, unless our sorties are vital for one sector or another – well, this occupation surely is, but you can still enjoy it as the undersigned does it from home…as he always does anyway.

Elisabeth Moss is flawless as Cecilia Kass, a determined, brave, gritty Wonder Woman, that has to survive the abuse of her boyfriend, the terror of being haunted by aka The Invisible Man, a most adroit, formidable, cunning adversary…after all, he has a splendid mansion, to be compared with the one in much more rewarding, the Magnum opus of recent years, Parasite - http://realini.blogspot.com/2019/08/parasite-written-by-jin-won-han-and.html

The trauma of having escaped the tormenting husband is not over when the boyfriend is found dead, for like the elusive, smart, Machiavellian Hannibal Lecter and others of this kind, for the supposedly demised former partner is in fact on a rampage as in any respectable horror feature and takes advantage – as expected – of his invisibility, coupled with a brilliant mind, a psychotic personality and an obsession for Cecilia.

She will have to struggle when her sister is dead right in front of her, as they were sitting at a table in a restaurant, and The Invisible Man makes it look like she is the killer – he is absent from the picture, right, and all the witnesses see is the murderer with a knife in her hand and the collapsed body of a victim nearby…

The Villain had left a fortune in his will and the brother is instructed to be the executor and transfer one hundred thousand per month, for a period of some years, making the woman worth about five million dollars, unless she is convicted for a crime or is incapacitated, which she certainly is once she is locked up in an institution and charged with murder.

Her denials are ever more incriminatory; when she keeps saying the killer in in the room – she means The Invisible Man – and the investigators consider that murderer to be the woman…they see nobody else in the interrogation room, obviously…

The poor brother sates that he feels compassion, he had been living through hell with his sibling, but Cecilia rejects all that when he makes clear that there is no more money coming, though she is helloing friends go through college with the inheritance…

She says ‘you are the jelly fish version of your brother…all the vileness, everything, expect for the backbone’’

Ergo, this is an interesting, watchable film and furthermore, you should consider it much more than that, seeing that others, with much more gravitas than this cinephile have raised it to the level of quite better than average…