Fear the Invisible Man

Boring boring boring!!! Struggled my way through this! As a massive fan of hollow man with kevin bacon I was really looking forward to this movie looking at some of the other reviews which were hit and miss...however this is Invisible man on a budget, the production and the direction is awful, when the 'Invisible man ' is in the same shot as other characters, it sounds like he's in a completely different room...like a sound booth! The special effects are at most average, The movie is well over acted....some of the character's accents sound extremely forced. Extremely poor throughout. Would give this a wide birth.

One piece at a time, every great classic is being destroyed. Every day, I hear the words of George Orwell in his most famous work - "Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right."

This was no exception. Being a fan of the HG Wells' work, I really wanted to like this. Unfortunately, this was 100 minutes wasted.

The movie itself was as boring as watching paint dry. Besides that, for a story about the invisible man, we seem to spend most of the movie following the girl around instead.

In the original, the process not only turned the inventor invisible, but also insane. With this incarnation, we are never shown anything at all about his past pre-transformation, so we have nothing on which to base his current obsessions. If you ask me, he doesn't act any differently than most people walking around today.

The acting was subpar, but that wasn't the worst. The worst was the apparent complete lack of a continuity editor. So many things are wrong that anyone competent at the job should have caught. For instance, when the man gets shot, there's no blood anywhere - obviously, because his blood would be invisible as well. But when the wound is bandaged, suddenly the blood becomes visible seeping through the gauze. But it's ok, because we're told that his blood becomes visible when it coagulates. :eye_roll: Really? OK, so why, when he steps on a broken bottle later do we see blood dripping and pooling on the glass? A wine bottle is taken from a wino and broken - mid swig - yet there is no liquid in the bottle when it shatters. When books are thrown in to a fireplace, there burst into flames as if they were made of magicians' flash paper. I could go on and on, but I have no desire to bore you just because I had to sit through this snoozefest.

Finally, as with most modern era flick, the past has been modified to reflect current attitudes towards casting... if you know what I mean. Not to mention the mixed affections being placed in front of us as every turn.

Do yourself a favor. Either watch the original 1933 version or better yet... read the book while you still can. I'd go so far as to say that even "Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man" would be better time spent than watching this.

Let's start the review - some of this film is exceptional, the period feel, the locations, the cutting, the costumes, the set dressings, but the acting is awful. A shambolic borefest populated largely by rank amateur actors who should seriously look at their 'true' job prospects before inflicting themselves onscreen. The lead woman,I won't name her as she deserves no recognition whatsoever, who plays the heroine, the widow who prefers red to black in her mourning costumes, and a change of costume in every scene (costly) in this mess, if I can call her lead woman, s a shrieky voiced ham who misses every cue and acts (if you can call it that) as if no other actors are present in every scene she appears in (get back to the day job Mrs, acting ain't for you) , which indeed, is to a certain extent true, as her companion in this rubbish is invisible through most of the film. Mike Beckingham plays the invisible man invisibly, his attempts to deliver the strangulated dialogue in the scenes where he is supposed to be there, but not there (he's invisible) are mournful. A career as a road sweeper beckons. As for the actor who plays the 'colonel', Wayne Gordon, well... did anyone tell him what movie he was actually in??? His delivery is like someone trying and failing for an audition in 'Spooks' - dreadful! Hopelessly miscast and hopelessly lost in his own self esteem as an actor, (a graduate from the McDonald's school of acting - a flat white and a cheeseburger please Wayne) are the two descriptions that spring to mind. Moving on to the veteran actor David Hayman's brief appearance in this mess - why David, why? Why did you get top billing, your fee, your name, were you an 'angel' financing this farrago of a film? Do tell! Are you that desperate for work? Shame on you! Choose your parts better next time luv ok? I won't mention the rest of the cast, I hope the pay check they got for this was worth the humiliation of actually appearing in it, Nuff said. Another dud from 'director' Paul Dudbridge! Bin it, don't buy it!

Wow!, was this a borefest.

The movie's top focus is the Victorian era, trying its best to act as it belongs there, with the buildings, wardrobe, accents, even the weather.

The main issue, The Invisible Man is genuinely a side kick, that reappears every now and then as the lead character takes charge.

It is a bold move to call this Fear the Invisible Man, as for one, of course we can't see him and two, we don't really get to see him, hear him, follow his character arc. This is one of those movies that put an ex famous actor on the cover that makes a cameo and then leaves. Same thing here, the movie uses a good bait and waits to see what it got hooked.

And the difference between this and an Asylum production, is quite small really. But more than anything, I kid you not, it is truly, truly, boring. Almost nothing happens, because as I said before, the movie's focus is it's surroundings, not characters but dialogue, not people but old clothes, no story but something to fill up close to 2 hours.

Not recommended. Definitely and well I guess, literally, nothing to see here.

Cheers!

Firstly, I never completely tear down small budget independent movies like this as it's hard to get movies financed, cast and made.

That being said, this Is very poor fair. Considering it is an invisible man movie it could and should have been fairly watchable at the very least. However, the plot is boring, the dialogue laughable, the acting for the most part is historically bad, the direction is talentless, the editing is practically non existent, it's like they just shot what was needed and cobbled it together with sticky tape.

There are a couple of parts that are passable. Mhairi Calvey is ok in the lead and some of the effects are ok considering the budget.

Shame Really, could have been so much better.