The Unseen

Most of this is what you'd call kitchen sink drama--or the Canadian version of that. Dour uneventful life presented in a dour uneventful way. The set up is good and the final 20 minutes also finally mix invisible "problem" with real life problem into a satisfying ending. But at 97 minutes you feel you've seen a first draft screenplay for a short film tortured into a feature length.

Now it's not just that there aren't invisible "Gags" every other scene, it's that as a drama it's all very slow paced and in the worst sense Canadian.

Effects, what ones there are, are very well done but the connection and balance of existential invisibility and kitchen sink drama--really melodrama, isn't there.

Another thing is, it chooses to present invisibility as a sort of genetic problem not really talked about. This works well. Then unfortunately they introduce some mystical Chinese tea into the story? Either make this a supernatural or existential story--here they kind of mix the least exciting elements of both.

The writer and director just doesn't really have a handle on what would make this all work.

It has a first timer feel to the pacing--where everything just goes on and on so we hang for every last small nuance of performance. The performances are good, but the whole thing has the pace of a hangover.

Nicely produced. A good idea. But the script isn't there. Somewhere where between the over-the-top dumb exploitation of The Hollow Man and the small mostly-nothing-happens approach to this film is the film they were trying to make. As they say A for effort....

This was a good movie, you just have to get through the first half which is a slow start. I really liked the cast. Julia Stone is really good, you can see a lot more of her in season 2 of The Killing. She's really good in that and it's one of my favorite series. This movie is well worth your time.

The movie was okay. The begining was wicked slow and kind of boring. It got a little more fast paced around halfway through. It was kind of confusing, they didnt explain the condition the man had and I hated the ending.... didnt even explain what was going to happen to them later on in life or anything. The acting was good. Very mysterious.

I'm not too proud to admit I watched the wrong movie!! I was trying to find the 2023 version of this film, but instead got this 2016 snooze-fest! So, I admit, that's my fault. Although they are both horror flicks - just be sure not to do the same thing I did. You can never get this 2 hours of your life back!

So, this guy has a daughter he hasn't seen in 8 years - because he's becoming invisible, he doesn't want her to see him like this (which is funny, if he just waited long enough, she wouldn't have to see him at all, hahaha - get it?) Anyway, she lives in the city with her 2 Moms while her Daddy lives at least a day away working in a papermill. The entire movie is about this father/daughter connection and driving back and forth (with a bit of drugs added in, I guess just to make the PG-13 rating higher?) and I was bored out of my mind. More like a love story than horror!

SKIP IT! Even watching for free is not worth losing 2 hours of my life!!

Vague story with potential to be decent but nothing happens for ages then it all happens in 10 mins. Glad I watched it at work, less painful losing hours of my life.