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The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

Annie is an evil, vicious, criminal psychopath who batters an innocent boy almost to death and hides his body in a sewer. But hey, she's really a nice girl who has emotional problems because her mum died. Oh please! I think she should have been sent to the chair (or at least a secure facility) long before she even got to this stage.I am of the opinion that you are responsible for your own actions, and blaming violent behaviour on a "troubled" childhood is pathetic. What sort of weak-minded, spoilt brats are we raising these days? I guess this film was made by and for emotionally immature, molly-coddled teens. More mature viewers will not want to watch it.Even if you can overlook all that, the story is just darned silly anyway. Innocent boy doesn't quite die but comes back as a ghost and develops some sort of friendly attachment to the psychopath? Well maybe some people believe in ghosts and forgiveness but in the real world these things have no place.Sorry but this is a sad indictment of teenage society today and makes me despair.

You think ghost movie and immediately images of an old house on a ruined yard, maybe off the regular path, comes to mind. Sometimes, you get the misfortune of having to deal with a sinister slobbering monster or a phantom serial killer who irrationally and illogically goes around killing the cast. "The Invisible" actually takes more of its cue from "The Lovely Bones," as a high school student plots to escape his neglectful mother and travel the world, but before that happens, he's picked off by his school's resident problem child and his body is dumped in a storm drain in the woods. That's where the movie picks up. The youth learns that while his body stays hovering near death that his body can watch and perceive the events of his murder investigation, but unlike real ghosts, he can't talk to or communicate with the living. Taking another cue from "The Sixth Sense," his actions on the spirit plane turn out to be illusions and don't manifest in the real world. Where is a psychic when you need one? Regardless of this limited premise, the film carries through the investigation of his disappearance and the enlightenment of both his character and that of his female antagonist. The action is picked up when the urge to find his body is motivated by its relocation to the local dam where it will be forever lost. It's a fast-paced engrossing movie with a compelling storyline accentuated with strong performances and few special effects, proving that Hollywood can turn out a decent movie about ghosts when it really tries.

THE INVISIBLE (2007) is a slightly above-average suspense horror tale about two teenagers, who, on the surface, appear to be polar opposites, but in reality, are two sides of the same coin. One is the gifted and rich teenager Nick (convincingly played by Justin Chatwick), who lost his father at a young age and feels trapped in a go-nowhere relationship with his obviously cold, distant mother (fine performance by veteran Marcia Gay Harden).The other is the tough and troubled delinquent Annie (refreshingly played by Margarite Levieva), who is part of a high school gang of thieves and is in cahoots with a recently-paroled local ex-con Marcus (good performance by Alex O'Loughlin). Annie has a dysfunctional home life as well (father with a dead-end job, terrible stepmother) and is ironically the best influence on her little brother.The movie has an amazing opening dream sequence of Nick's graduation party that foreshadows the main point of the film, that Nick himself feels "invisible" to his mother and to the rest of the world and he desperately wants to connect to SOMETHING! He has only one best friend that betrayed him later on and a girlfriend that we find out later was just using him. Even the connections that Nick THOUGHT he had were a mirage! Conversely, Annie feels alone, too, doomed to a life of poverty and crime. Both characters feel ALONE and so the message of the film, I think, is that sometimes the strongest bonds come from the most unexpected sources. It is the character details to Nick and Annie's personal lives and their connection that make the movie what it is. Also, the music used throughout the film to underscore Nick and Annie's situations is wonderful.Unfortunately, other than the main stars and a couple of other aforementioned characters, the movie as a whole is very flawed. The major flaw is the cops investigating Nick's disappearance and apparent murder, the 2 main of which (Callum Keith Rennie and Michelle Harrison) leave nary of an impression, as they seem strangely distant from the story and take what I think is way too long to figure out Nick's whereabouts and connecting Annie to the disappearance. I mean, it never should have been THIS difficult! I also don't get why Nick's best "friend" Pete (Chris Marquette in a thankless role) didn't come forward sooner as there was really nothing he could do about the beating and I doubt he would have actually gone to jail if he'd spilled the beans on Annie and her cronies. But the "action" scenes in the film's climax are really a head-scratcher as there is no way that Annie should have so easily gotten away from the police. She was literally cornered and should have been caught. The cops were totally and unacceptably inept in this movie.But, I will say that the ending to this film was simply AMAZING! It seems as though the director knew how he wanted to start and finish the film, it was just the middle parts that were a bit too muddled.

THE INVISIBLE is one of those movies which will leave the audience divided. There is no question about it, the movie has its flaws. The story could be more elaborate and the dialog and acting better. Still "The Invisible" will stay in the back of your mind.The strengths of the movie is its perfectly executed soundtrack, how it portraits family relations and the interesting characters of "Nick" played by Justing Chatwin and "Annie" played by Margarita Levieva.If you're looking for a action packed thriller/drama then this is not a movie for you. If you're looking for a beautiful portrait of what people are capable of in their darkest hour, set to a soundtrack that will give you goosebumps, then watch this movie.