One of the things I love about Tubi being free is that I love bad movies. I go online to search for stuff I think is going to be bad and see if it is as bad as it looks or sounds. And sometimes I find a gem. Other times... I find something as unpleasant as "Invasive." It is not the type of bad that I am looking for.
I am surprised a lot of other reviewers on this site enjoyed the film, because I couldn't stand this movie. Through a combination of bad dialogue and poor acting choices, the characters in this film are unbearable. Special mention goes to our villain Pierce, played by Francis Chouler. Pierce is a tech bro, and he is written in a way that he is supposed to be hated. However, with his pretentious and nonsencial dialogue and Chouler's strange acting, Pierce comes across as a carciature of what the writer thinks a "detached" mad scientist is meant to be. Obviously, when Pierce says something that is supposed to be "profound," it is supposed to be arrogant and pretentious.
Unfortunately, for a film like this to succeed, your villain needs a certain charisma to them. Since this is a character you will be seeing throughout the film, he at the very least needs to be entertaining, even if he is irredeemable. And Pierce is not that. He is obnoxious. He is the kind of villain you want dead at the halfway point at the latest. Pierce bogs down the entire film, it is difficult for me to appreciate the good parts of this film that other reviewers seem to like.
