
Nick Powell is an excellent high-school student who raises money by selling homework and results of quizzes to his schoolmates. He aims to travel to London for a writer's course - telling his best friend, Pete Egan, that he has already bought the airplane ticket but he has not told his mother yet. Annie Newton has a problem with Pete, who owes her money. As events unfold, due to a case of mistaken identity, Nick takes a severe beating from Annie and her gang, his body dumped ... (Full plot summary below)
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Nick Powell is an excellent high-school student who raises money by selling homework and results of quizzes to his schoolmates. He aims to travel to London for a writer's course - telling his best friend, Pete Egan, that he has already bought the airplane ticket but he has not told his mother yet. Annie Newton has a problem with Pete, who owes her money. As events unfold, due to a case of mistaken identity, Nick takes a severe beating from Annie and her gang, his body dumped in a sewer. The next morning, he discovers he cannot be seen - he is now a spirit in a state of limbo and can only observe as the events of that day unfold.
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| Boston GlobeTy BurrA fully felt, decently crafted teen B-movie melodrama, plenty preposterous in places but alive to the vibrant miseries of being young and misunderstood. |
| VarietyPeter DebrugeThat rare mystery in which auds know everything upfront and the characters, rather than investigating, simply wait for the culprit to turn herself in. Previously adapted as Swedish thriller "Den Osynlige," Mick Davis' script brings out director David S. Goyer's emo side. |
| San Francisco ChroniclePeter HartlaubThe Invisible is, at its core, a character study, albeit one with a Patrick Swayze-in-"Ghost" paranormal edge. But it's definitely not mindless trash. If anything, the movie is too introspective, to the point that it doesn't build enough conflict or tension. |
| The A.V. ClubScott TobiasThe film disappoints on its own terms, failing to drum up any sympathy for a self-pitying rich kid who can't pry his eyes from his navel. |
| Chicago ReaderJonathan RosenbaumOriginality and even a certain amount of obscurity are more appealing than formula. This doesn't work, but I was never bored. |
| The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Liam LaceyThe Invisible isn't the formulaic horror film that the studio is selling it as but surely it wasn't supposed to be an accidental comedy either. |
| New York PostKyle SmithA 12th-grade "Sixth Sense" with a third-rate plot. |
| The Hollywood ReporterKirk HoneycuttThe drama never comes together in a smart, meaningful way; indeed, most revelations border on the banal. |
| Austin ChronicleMarc SavlovThis may be a remake of a Swedish film from 2002 (itself based on a novel), but unspooling in the cineplex it feels more akin to one of emo godhead Conor Oberst's more emotionally mopey musical diversions. |
| The New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisThis latest recycling of foreign-grown frights shows less interest in horror than in healing. |