Movie Review: The Invasion

The Invasion is about an intelligent alien bacteria that modifies the essential nature of humanity without changing its physical nature. The Invasion attempts to teach us something about our essential nature but instead teaches us about our nature to be suckered into a dull movie.

A shuttle crash brings with it an alien parasite that enters the human population. Dr. Carol Benell (Nicole Kidman) is thrown in the middle of the outbreak when her ex-husband, a doctor for the Center for Disease Control, Tucker Kaufman (Jeremy Northam) visits their son, Oliver (Jackson Bond). While Oliver is visiting his father, he and Carol get separated and Carol has to try to find him in the middle of the outbreak. Her and her colleague, Ben Driscoll, (Daniel Craig) set out to find him. The only way to move through the ever transforming sea of the infected unnoticed is to pretend that you have no emotions...continue reading this review at Geeks of Doom!