The Invisible Man (2020)

When I had first heard that Universal was thinking about bringing back the famous Universal Monsters for their version of the MCU entitled The Dark Universe, I was super excited. Then The Mummy starring Tom Cruise was released in 2017 and bombed at the box office almost forcing The Dark Universe to crumble and die. That is until director/writer Leigh Whannell (Upgrade) decided to take over the script for The Invisible Man which happens to be today's film. The film stars Elisabeth Moss (The Handmaid's Tale) as Cecilia Kass, a woman who had to run away from her abusive husband Andrew (played by Oliver Jackson-Cohen) in the middle night in a great deal of fear. She soon finds out that he has committed suicide and that he leaves her a fortune, but she begins to suspect that the suicide is a hoax and that he is stalking her by being invisible, but will anyone believe her? The film also stars Harriet Dyer (Love Child) as Emily Kass, Aldis Hodge (Straight Outta Compton) as James, Storm Reid (A Wrinkle In Time) as Sydney, Michael Dorman (Killer Elite) as Tom, Benedict Hardie (Upgrade) as Marc, Renee Lim (Please Like Me) as Doctor Lee, Nicholas Hope (Scooby-Doo) as Head Doctor, and Sam Smith (The Nightengale) as Det. Reckley.

Spoiler Alert: Moving forward in this paragraph there will be details that are spoiled about the film so proceed with caution. One of the things they did right with this film was the execution of everything from the acting to the writing and anything in-between. I loved the fact that it wasn't a traditional horror film and that it thrived off the fact that it wanted to make you very uncomfortable and the music definitely helped with that. One of the main things I also liked about the film was the fact that he doesn't turn invisible because of a potion or a science experiment gone bad, he turns invisible because he has a suit that is made entirely of cameras that capture the surroundings constantly. That concept to me was just brilliant because it makes it believable that someone could create this technology especially in this day and age and this is dangerous technology placed in the wrong hands. I loved the final battle scene (if you want to call it that) because it exposed him to the world and it finally proved that she wasn't going crazy after all. I want to give big kudos to the makeup department for doing a great job with Moss who while in the institution was looking worse for wear and they captured that well. Leigh Whannell has proven to me in two films that he might have a claim to sit up in the throne with fellow Saw alumnus James Wan as far as this generation's leading horror/sci-fi men. As I said before, the film is not very scary, but it's just skin crawling cringe and that is exactly what this kind of film needed. I hope this does give life back to The Dark Universe so we can finally get what we want. I am going to give the film an A- for a final grade.