This is clearly the worst adaptation of Invasion of the Body Snatchers that I've seen. It doesn't have the all out edge of the Don Siegel directed 1956 original, or the sheer creep out factor of Philip Kaufman's outstanding 1978 updating. What's more, it can't even compare to Abel Ferrara's little seen, but surprisingly effective 1993 version. Perhaps the biggest disappointment surrounding this big budget telling is that there might be something half way decent buried deep beneath this uneventful, uninspired, blink-and-you'll miss-it, retelling of a sci fi classic.

The Invasion tells the tale of aliens who come to our planet and take over our bodies while we sleep. It's very much possible that I was taken over by aliens during this screening. Nicole Kidman is the heroine, and while she tries mighty hard to keep this movie afloat, its a doomed effort. New Bond, Daniel Craig, is wasted in an under-written role that manages to fall between the cracks. The Invasion was directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel (he made the outstanding Downfall), and it allegedly left such a bad taste in the distributor's mouth, that they brought in The Matrix's Wachowski Brothers to oversee reshoots and help out in the editing room. In the end, this Invasion has a few unsettling moments, but as a whole, it's over before anything really happens. It's one squandered opportunity after another.