The Invisible

The Invisible (2007): Try this one on for a plot and see if it fits. Tough high school girl along with a couple of aide de thugs continually punch, slug and dent a brainy student’s friend over some tardy drug money. She then thinks brainy guy has snitched to the cops and really pulverizes him and leaves him for dead hidden in a remote sewer system. Other than that, she’s a real charmer and the movie tries to build up sympathy for the nasty ingénue by showing her really crummy home life. Ok, so a tough upbringing apparently is grounds for drug pushing and murder, is that what they are trying to say? But wait, this is a ghostly suspense movie so it turns out the guy is only pre-dead and his ghostly presence pops up wandering around yelling at everyone but no one can hear him. How many movies have you seen where spirits can see and hear everything but can’t be heard, must be in double figures I’ll bet. Brainy pre-dead boy follows his murderess around and he actually starts to find her attractive, yells at her a lot and eventually sort of gets her to tell someone where his body is hidden. His pre-dead body has to be found and resuscitated before he becomes real dead or he is….well…..fully dead. In the end he survives but his other pal that becomes pre-dead succumbs to reaching room temperature. The gal eventually goes to his hospital room and leaks some kind of karma or something into brainy boy and he recovers and she dies in his arms. Touching, no? NO! This was not a great movie and didn’t have very many redeeming features. The movie is rated PG-13 for: high school thuggery, multiple juvenile delinquents, screaming silent ghosts, nasty but sympathetic killer ingénue, wasted mother, useless father, and for the general all around depressing feeling generated by this flick.