The Invisible

Plot synopsis:
Nick Powell (Justin Chatwin) is a "perfect" high school student leading a "perfect" life. Teen angst plays a big part in his psyche. Annie Newton (Margarita Levieva) is a broken teen who acts out her hatred on everyone, especially Nick. When Nick is beaten within an inch of his life, it becomes the job of his spirit to save himself by finding his body before it dies. But how is going to do this when he is The Invisible?Mom (Marcia Gay Harden) is making a toast to her high-school age son, Nick, at a large gathering. She gives him an inscribed gift. "To Nick, from Mom, make me proud." Following this, Nick proceeds to go the food table and cut the center out of a chocolate cake, taking his piece with him in his bare hands as he heads to the garage. The next morning he awakes in a start. Mom has made him two eggs and bacon arranged on a plate in a happy face. Mom is bugging him about college prep but Nick wants to take a writer's course in London.At school Nick delivers a French essay to fellow student Pete Egan (Chris Marquette). Pete is attacked in the bathroom a group of kids led by Annie for "accepting merchandise and not paying for it." Back in class Nicholas presents his oral poem. The class is engaged as he recites, interrupted by the ringing of the class bell. Nick catches up with Annie group and pays for the merchandise whispering to her "you are so broken." She attacks him in the cafeteria and they both end disciplined. Annie goes home to her family's apartment. Mom and Dad (Desiree Zurowski and Mark Houghton) fight and she makes sure her very young brother Victor Newton (Alex Ferris) gets fed.Nick meets up with Pete showing him his secretly purchased plane ticket to London. He complains that mom has has his life mapped out since his dad died when he was 13. Annie goes out with boyfriend Marcus Bohem (Alex O'Loughlin) and he breaks into a car. She approaches a nearby window jewelry display and smashes out the window to steal a beautiful necklace. They take off in the car and evade arrest. She and Marcus argue and she walks out. He calls the police and reports that she's been stealing at school.The next day at school Pete is watching Annie at her locker. The police arrive and break open her locker. Annie calls boyfriend and tells him he got busted. He plays innocent and she says she knows who did it and will take care of it. Nick says his goodbyes to his friend. Nick arrives home to have his mom tell him the airline called about his flight being changed.Annie and her gang attack Pete. Under physical torture he turns the gang toward Nick who is at home hosting a party. He meets a girl, offering to let her go to London on the flight that leaves in 2 hours. They start making out and she notices he's wearing an old watch when he has a new one. She learns his father gave him the watch he wears. He leaves the house and takes a walk finding himself being followed by a beat up old car. Annie makes his friend sit in the car while her gang beats Nick senseless. His friend begs them to stop. Nick makes a side comment to Annie and she kicks him into the water. The group checks to find he isn't breathing. They panic. Annie demand that they pick him up and they carry him through the woods, his watch dropping along the way. hey drop his body into a storm drain, cover it and and leave him.Arriving at boyfriend Marcus' place she confesses to him that she killed him. She needs an alibi. He tries to toss her out citing his probation status. She notes all the stolen vehicles in his shop, dragging her bloodied hand across them. She burns her clothing by the river. In the next shot Nick walks out of the woods to the road in perfect condition. He realizes no one can see or hear him. The police are investigating his missing person status.Detective Kate Tunney (Michelle Harrison) tells Detective Brian Larson (Callum Keith Rennie) that Nick had a run in with Annie. He notices debris around the entry to the woods. He has a history with Annie's family. A search party is organized. In his bedroom, Nick's mother reads his poetry journal while a bird sits on the porch railing. The bird becomes injured and is dying. A live bird appears on Nick's shoulder and he takes it in his hand. As the bird on the railing slowly dies the bird in his hand disappears and Nick realizes he must still be alive. He tries to lead the search team and he pleads with Annie, who can't hear him, to help. Pete is on the verge of telling the truth.Det. Larson visits Marcus' garage. He asks about the jewelry store smash 'n grab and he says he wasn't with her. Larson tells him he knows she phoned Marcus. Larson asks about the missing person investigation. Marcus stops Pete outside at gunpoint informing him he's being followed by the police. They go out to the woods where they left Nick. Marcus gets Annie's gang together and they call her saying someone is going tell to confess. She calls Pete to meet her sending him to her gang. Marcus shows up with Annie at gunpoint and sends Pete home. Annie takes the gun when they realize the cops have followed them. She escapes. Nick shouts out to her and she responds, "Never!" Nick continues to follow Annie as she shuns him, he knows his only hope for survival is her.After sleeping a night in a school gym, Annie goes to Nick's house. She sees his life of his own room and goes through his possessions. She pours ashes from a small bottle into her hand as Nick's mom enters the room. Annie runs out into the wood and goes to the place she left Nick only to discover he's not there anymore. A nicotine gum pack was left leading Annie to see Pete about where they moved him. Pete admits Nick didn't turn in Annie, nor did he. She finds Marcus and takes him at gunpoint to a ledge. Annie and Marcus end up shooting each other but she calls Det. Larson and tells him she knows where Nick can be found. Pete attempts suicide and as he slowly dies Nick finds Pete's spirit standing beside him. Pete's father comes in before he dies, saving him before it's too late.Nick is rescued from the river and taken to the hospital. Annie fights to get to him despite the gunshot to her abdomen. Nick guides her through the halls to him and he speaks to his mother through Annie. In Nick's room she speaks to him as his spirit moves back to his own body. At that moment, she passes out.A young boy flies and remote controlled airplane over a lake. Nick notices the boy and is concerned that the boy is alone. He explains that his sister was supposed to come with him but she died. Nick suggests they send her a message. They write, "Hey Annie" on the plane's wings and send it out to fly.

Tags: murder

Review:
Margarita Levieva as Annie Newton is also fantastic as her character undergoes transformation and redemption through the course of the movie.
There is little to no fear elements in the movie, but it's such a beautiful story about a ghost that it can't be ignored.If you think you can figure this movie out by the synopsis above, think again- 'The Invisible' is a epic story about life, death and the choices you make during your time on this Earth.
In the end, what really matters is making your life worth something and taking control of it on your own- the lesson is a great one, and hopefully this movie will entertain along with inspire.
My experience...I was up late one night and was fiddling through the Starz' movie channels when I saw the title , "The Invisible".Reluctant to watch, because it already started I opted to give it a try.
Starting the movie more than 20mins in I was able to follow with ease gladly adjusting to the changes in the story and characters.
Definitely NOT a copycat of "The Sixth Sense" this film instead is highly original, sets its own mark, goes its own way.Although I haven't been a teen in decades, I know them well enough to say the portrayals of the central characters are as on-the-level as I've seen lately.
This never-dull and unusual story kept us involved more than we expected, and I recommend it for anyone who enjoys either teen movies or supernatural thrillers.If you rent it from Netflix, please beware of a similar titled film, a dreadful movie about two young American stone-heads pretty much comatose in a cheap flat in Paris.
Dull and stupid.The soundtrack of INVISIBLE is truly good and proves that good music is still being done in 2007 even if they don't ever play it on the air.One way films have improved: When I was a teen there were never any teen movies with characters you could either believe or relate to.
Once you know that you've got an over-sized field of ideas for good movies like this..
The camera-work was superb, the acting was well above average and none of the characters were hard to believe, which is a feat in itself considering the film is about a bloke that no-one can see or hear.
I could sit here and name countless technical flaws with the presentation (like the opening scene), but they're lost to the fact that this movie tried to be different.
I did not cry, but I felt, I was focused on this film, intrigued, surprised, not to mention that the acting supplied was splendid, it was truly a movie that in way I can not explain, moved me.
I do think some of the characters were a little bland, but the main ones like Powell and Annie were not.
The trailer was obviously made so you would think about the point of the movie, that people who feel invisible are completely capable of being heard.
The concept was pretty interesting, the acting was actually very good.It did have its moments of following a sort of CSI-type blueprint, and other pretty archetypical concepts of a thriller movie.
I'm sorry, but most of those songs have experience pretty heavy radio play, and there isn't anything pretentious about putting popular music into a movie, that's a good thing..
However, the original trailer had a scene in it where the main character runs into another ghost who tells him he has a limited amount of time to solve his own murder and find out what happened to him, otherwise he's toast.
The female lead is supposed to be this angry young girl, but of course turns out to be not so bad at all, and this is symbollicly shown when she shows us, the audience, the first real good look at her face and -surpise!- she turns out to be this beautiful girl.
The movie has this terrible emotional ending, which is totally not convincing, when I watched it half of the audience started to laugh.
I could go on, but I guess you get my point.The dialog is annoying, certain plot points that are set up never amount to anything, the acting sucks and the soundtrack is filled with Emo-crap that mirrors the whiny cant of the main characters.
You've got to be kidding....Almost turned it off 3/4 of the way through....Contrived, bad acting (although Chatwin was quite good in the badly written script)...to mention the "Sixth Sense" and this movie in the same sentence is an abomination...Anyone who believes the Annie Newton character could pull off the crap they have her do in this movie should face the spitball firing line!
She would have got the crap beat out of her in any high school in the country (the actress actually did a pretty good job)...The police and investigators were pathetic...Marcia Gay Harden (once again) also bothered me...They had a budget though, the cinematography and sound were quite good as was the excellent sound track...As a matter of fact a previous poster mentioned the fact that the soundtrack was to show the director's "hipness" (not his word), but the soundtrack was the most enjoyable part of the movie for me...Don't waste your time....
Honestly, it was hard to crammed a 300+ pages of book into an hour and a half movie, so I was quite happy that the director was able to make the best out of it.Justin Chatwin, who plays Nick Powell did a great job in his acting.
It gave an impression that Nick thought that what he did was happening when actually nothing had happened.However, I think the movie could be made better.
At this point, I started to realized that not only is the rich boy invisible, he is invincible, since he falls ten feet head first onto some rocks after getting k-kicked by the cone head, gets dumped shortly after head first about 15 feet into a storm drain, and then later in the movie gets dumped onto a bunch of rocks (probably head first).
First off, I would just like to say that this whole "add things in the trailer that isn't in the actual movie" thing that people have been doing lately, IS NOT COOL.
I actually found myself going, "You're troubled, loner, no one understands you, you're cute and clever, you listen to folk rock, WE GET IT!" The characters should have just been wearing black shirts with giant white letters that said "Bad mom", "Cute artsy kid with dark past", "Tough girl with heart of gold".
The original Swedish version is lent some gravitas by its motivations rooted in racial hatred, but the Hollywood Pictures americanization jettisons all that in favor of a "Fast and Furious" flavor, turning it into a ridiculous "rich boy meets poor girl / poor girl kills rich boy / dead rich boy makes poor girl realize the error of her ways / poor girl saves rich boy" story replete with squealing tires, frigidaire moms and trendily-clad cops who care, all saturated in a syrupy adult-alternative soundtrack.
I feel doubly duped because I spent $9 to see it because it was produced by the 'same people who produced 'The Sixth Sense,' and the co-writer of 'Batman Begins...' I don't know how others feel, but If I were associated in any way with either of those 2 movies; I'd not only be insulted; I'd be humiliated that I had any connection with this celluloid fecal matter, I'd distance myself with a time-displacer.
Romantic because the guy falls for his killer and a comedy because it is so bad I just have to laugh at the people who gave this movie a good review.I can forgive that there weren't any scary scenes or that the guy doesn't avenge his killer.
I went and saw because the trailer actually made it look like it could be a good movie, but I was disappointed.
Scenes and plot lines that were introduced in the trailer never make it into the movie, and the story became completely different.
I went into the theatre expecting some sort of horror flick, or at least a thriller - what I got was neither - a terribly cheesy, badly acted and badly written, (badly EVERYTHING!) waste of 2 hours of my life that I will never get back.
The only people who might come close to liking this movie are pre-teens who may think the lead is 'hot.'(And I thought he definitely wasn't).
to do this he 'haunts' Annie, waiting for guilt to sink in and for his murderer to turn herself in.Loosely based on a novel by Swedish author Mats Wahl  the plot itself has been done before (and better) in the 1990 hit film 'Ghost'.
Too quick and choppy (especially in the beginning, explaining Nick and Annie's stories), there is no fluency between scenes and I felt somewhat disorientated trying to work out where the scene had suddenly jumped to and which story I was now following.'The Invisible' starts out mediocre and ends cornily.
If you took out all the times when the music takes centre stage, you'd be down to 40 minutes, and this film would still be unbearably long.) Callum Keith Rennie is the only saving grace, and he isn't given enough screen time to make up for having to watch the desperately untalented "stars" for the longest 90 minutes of your life..
After realizing his time is limited, Nick must put his life in the hands of the one person who may be able to hear what he's saying.Nick is the main character, who is a pretty likable kid.
The change in relationship between Nick and Annie as the movie goes on is equally forced and in no way enjoyable.'The Invisible' is not without its positives though.
These things though, are not enough to save very weak directing and character/plot development.Overall, 'The Invisible' is not worth paying money to see.
wow what can i say about this film with out swearing, from start to finish it was painful to watch i cant understand how this got from the paper and pen stage, and the characters had as much depth as a puddle.
the young woman in it (i can not remember her name and i will not waste my time looking it up) was the most unconvincing character of them all, don't get me wrong i can see that she can act but its the script and the story that has ruined it for her and every other actor/actress in it.
if you want a film along the lines of this that is good watch ghost..
Starting from the cliché girl character (bad childhood, mad at everybody in the world), to idiotic scenes of showing beautiful nature with rock-music running in high-pitch, just ridiculous.
Still "The Invisible" will stay in the back of your mind.The strengths of the movie is its perfectly executed soundtrack, how it portraits family relations and the interesting characters of "Nick" played by Justing Chatwin and "Annie" played by Margarita Levieva.If you're looking for a action packed thriller/drama then this is not a movie for you.
If you're looking for a beautiful portrait of what people are capable of in their darkest hour, set to a soundtrack that will give you goosebumps, then watch this movie..
Then 20 minutes of stupid to chug on afterward.After watching the main character mope around for an hour, I really wanted the main character to stay dead and the movie to end.
I try to watch everything but with this movie, although it's a little longer than an hour and a half, I feel I've wasted my whole day!!!
The plot was ridiculous, most of the movie made no logical sense and I know this is fantasy trying to come off as reality but really some of the lines and scenes were just plain stupid!
The acting was awful in particular by the lead character who was just plain annoying having to see him on screen every 5 seconds saying "Annie im here".This movie is at the very most a 5/10 to anyone who is over the age of 14.
This movie beat them all because The Invisible actually makes me feel bad about myself and a little nauseated.
Saw this today since it is rated 6/10 in IMDb. This is the stupidest movie I have ever seen with pretty much no story and whatever is being shown hardly makes any sense.
The promotional materials of "The Invisible" make it seem like the usual supernatural tale set in the world of American high school - and really, had it stuck with a plot-driven narrative instead of delving into a preposterous quasi-existential teenage drama, it might have fared better.A remake of the Swedish novel/film "Den Osynlige," the movie tells the story of Nick Powell (Justin Chatwin), a well-off teenager who gets trapped in some sort of a limbo after being beaten up and left for dead by a gang of teenage hoods.
The suspense angle is so understated the movie overall plods, although the cinematography is a nice diversion amidst all the script's hokum.Directed by David Goyer, "The Invisible" has little sense of mystery for it to work as a legitimate thriller, and it's so effusively emotional to work as a character study.
I cant believe people are hating on this movie, is wasn't THAT BAD.
Way too predictable, way too sentimental, Justin Chatwin who played a good role in The Chumscrubber fails horrible as Nick, the main character.
I chose 6 because it was enjoyable, the acting is good as the characters are well played but the plot kind of loses its way.
By the end of the movie, again with no explanation, he is able to talk using Annie sort of as a "medium."The way the film has the spirit interact with the real world is interesting and novel.
I think that anybody who loves to read or watch things about love that is not expressed in everyday ways would like this movie..
the main character in the movie seemed like he held the same expression the whole time.
I honestly expected more out this film.A friend of mine had said before we went in that it wasn't a scary-type film as the commercials had portrayed, that it was more of a drama-thriller with a nice "Don't take life for granted" ending.The acting was horrendous, as was the character development and portrayal.
The Invisible is certainly one of the most superbly thought out and well acted films I've seen in a long time.
(no poltergeist powers here).The movie is based on a Swedish book with the same title but a lot was changed to make sure a wide range of audience gets to see it.Justin Chatwin who plays Nick does a great job in this movie allowing you to get close to the character almost as real as that nightmare you had.Now, I will not tell you much more of this movie as I think its something you need to see for yourself (and I hate spoilers) but I will tell you that the only reason I did not give it a 10 is due to the "Hollywood" makeover this movie got.
If you are able to look beyond what is said and into what the characters (and director) mean, the movie is artful and brilliant.
You have got to be kidding.The last 30 minutes concentrated on having the two main actors Justin Chatwin who plays Nick Powell (who is the deceased victim who miraculously comes back to life as a supernatural being whispering in his co-stars ear) and Margarita Levieva who plays the confused and volatile Annie Newton whose goal is to bring Nick Powell back from the dead before time runs out.Unfortunately time does not run out soon enough for this moviegoer who watched the film go downhill to the bitter end.
The movie was simply dropped on my coffee table, seemed interesting, so I popped it in the drive.I found the movie easy to get into and moved along at a nice steady pace with a descent script and solid performances by all the cast.Justin Chatwin who plays Nick Powell had me totally convinced that I was looking into his world as the caring compliant son of his frightened controlling and recently widowed, mother.Margarita Levieva who plays Annie Newton, showed us there is a lot more to her than just beauty, as she opens a window to her life of abuse amid a broken family and self sympathizing substance abusing parents.There is a lot of deep human emotion carried in this film, love, betrayal, empathy, acceptance, understanding, obligation and much more.I see a very bright future for both these young actors and hope to see more of their fine performances in the future.The score of 6 (in my opinion) is very harsh indeed, I would have to rate it at 8, a very worthy watch.So what are you waiting for?.
Sure, I know the original Swedish version is darker (and I really want to watch it) but taking in account today's remake efforts, this movie is like fresh air.I dug the plot very much but the character development is what kept my attention.
I never got the chance to see this film in theaters in all actuality I never really wanted to watch it the preview made me think it was another one of those campy American horror flicks or something like another Gothika.
Not once in this film was I confused and not once did I feel like my time was wasted.
I watched this movie a few days back, and really liked it.
One of my friends' saw this movie when it was released and said it was really bad....Thats why I took so long to watch it.
And then at the end of the movie, it actually wants us to believe that she is the only one that can save him.
I want to watch the movie I saw in the trailer.