The Invisible: Critic Reviews

They should have called this Perturbia.

This latest recycling of foreign-grown frights shows less interest in horror than in healing.

A fully felt, decently crafted teen B-movie melodrama, plenty preposterous in places but alive to the vibrant miseries of being young and misunderstood.

Layers of the story are jammed into the script, but what might work as a narrative device in a novel -- the spirit guiding readers through Nick's revelations -- is just plain ridiculous in a movie.

[This] wasn't screened for the press, perhaps because its poetic fantasy premise is so hard to understand. Yet originality and even a certain amount of obscurity are more appealing than formula.

Director David S. Goyer doesn't get half the skin-crawling mileage out of the ghost factor that he could. As a result, The Invisible really isn't worth seeing.

Plays like a very special episode of The OC.

Even ghost stories aren't allowed to be so ludicrous as to show a gut-shot character carrying on as if suffering from nothing worse than a mild wedgie, or a guy trying to drag his own body to safety.

The only horror here is the script.

The drama never comes together in a smart, meaningful way; indeed, most revelations border on the banal.

The Invisible is little more than an extended excuse for a soundtrack.

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...has been designed to appeal solely to the coveted "tween" demographic...

Supernatural teen thriller is preposterous, awful.

Never satisfying no matter what genre it attempts.

There's some interesting ideas afoot, but there's also a struggle as to which to direction it wants to head.

...a quietly sad and lonely film about quietly sad and lonely people.

A mash-up of Ghost and The O.C. with a point-of-view directed with uncompromising resolve at the protagonist's navel.

The Invisible plays like a self-indulgent adolescent wish-fulfillment fantasy.

Thought-provoking, philosophical and always interesting, "The Invisible" is likely to remain that way, particular when Spidey swings on to the big screen. It's too bad that this well-wrought, intelligent movie may not find an audience %u2013 perhaps a DVD

stylishly shot and halfway intelligent

Contains an intriguing idea, brought only sporadically to life by director David S. Goyer