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.

Okay - I am not fond of American remakes. Although it is the case that I haven't seen the original (not for long though) I decided to take a look at this.Why did I take a look at this before the 2002 one? Simple - David S Goyer. I feel he is a fantastic writer and I wanted to see him direct a movie without writing it. People call him an awful director? Most things in this movie worked well.The concept of this movie is nothing short of brilliance - That's what made me think "I want to see this movie - Swedish or American I don't care". I find it very well thought out - for those who don't know it is that after a kid is beaten up (almost to death) at the side of the road he then enters a ghost-like state where nobody can see him and whatever he does is undone immediately when he does them, there is only one person who can hear him and that is the ring leader of the people that beat him up.The plot point that it was the ring leader made some of the dialogue be reduced to "tell them where my body is" over and over. The ring leader of this in my opinion is developed more than a psychotic bitch as time goes on.Now then I better stop reviewing this and start to look for the Swedish original.

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.

going into this movie,i had no idea what to expect.what i got was a well written,well directed,well acted film.it's not like any film i've seen before.on an emotional level,it's very touching.the acting is superb,but Justin Chatwin and Margarita Levieva(who are really the central characters)are standouts,in my opinion.they each inhabit their characters.it's a complex(but not complicated) film with many themes running through it.hatred,love,loss,sorrow re4demptioand irony,to name a few.this film sticks with you after viewing it.you really have to take some time to digest what you have seen.it bears more than one viewing.for me,The Invisible is an 8/10