The Invasion

I never saw this movie in the theatre. It wasn’t even in my Netflix queue, which means one thing: I had zero interest in seeing it. I’m flipping through the cable stations yesterday. There’s nothing on; except football. I like football, I do, but I can’t watch a whole game so I am desperately trying to find something else to watch and even though I have hundreds of channels it’s proving to be a difficult task. I notice that The Invasion starring Nicole Kidman and Daniel Craig is getting ready to start and I decide: what the heck—might as well. Maybe it was because of my extremely low expectations going into the viewing, but I liked it. Wasn’t the best movie I’ve seen lately, wasn’t even Nicole Kidman’s best movie lately, but nevertheless I was entertained for the hour and 45 minutes that it lasted.

The movie opens to a space shuttle disaster. A shuttle implodes during re-entry into Earth’s atmosphere. Shortly after, people start getting the “flu”, and begin to act peculiar. Turns out the space shuttle explosion and this mysterious flu have something in common; perhaps something alien-like. We then follow Nicole Kidman’s quest to avoid this dangerous virus and save her son.

This movie had some bad special effects and the way people got infected with the personality-altering virus was downright gross, but it never lost its watchability. This was the first Daniel Craig movie I’ve seen…no I didn’t watch his turn as James Bond. I liked him enough in this movie that it made me want to go out and rent Casino Royale. He reminded me of Clive Owen, just not as sexy and rugged. If you need to kill an afternoon check this one out, not too bad.

Missy Cinema Score: B-