Last night I took out two movies: Resident Evil: Apocalypse, and The Invasion. Resident Evil piqued my interest because of an article I watched about effects used; the movie was entertaining and the effects were fairly fantastic. But The Invasion is what I want to talk about…

This movie is also know as ‘Invasion of the Body Snatchers’ and is a remake of the movie of the same name from 1993. And that’s what it’s all about. I think it was a cleverly-made movie that brings some plausible ideas to mind. I’d watch any movie with Nicole Kidman in it, but I would watch this movie even if she wasn’t involved.

I’m a sucker for science-fiction movies, and that’s what made me take this movie home, but it doesn’t seem to be too far ‘out there’ to be enjoyable.

Here’s the synopsis from Wikipedia:
A NASA space shuttle crashes to Earth under mysterious circumstances, and an extraterrestrial disease in the wreckage begins infecting human beings. A psychiatrist from Washington, D.C., Carol Bennell (Nicole Kidman), and her colleague Ben Driscoll (Daniel Craig) discover that once infected, a transformation which robs the victims of their humanity is triggered by hormones released during REM sleep. As the infection spreads, fewer people can be trusted. Fighting to stay awake, Carol looks for her son, who may hold the answer to stopping the invasion.