The new 2020 "INVISIBLE MAN" review

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The first scenes entirely generated by computer (and you can see that clearly) already announce in the credits what is to come. Lack of technique. The new version of "The Invisible Man" that promises more than delivery and more or less that. The script that is quite inconsistent fails at crucial moments in this film that is not as horror as we expected but we can probably call it mystery and suspense. Director Leigh Whannell even tries and does a good job directing his own script adapted from the work of H.G. Wells but he ends up making a mistake in this process and makes banal mistakes that in a simple edition could be solved and adjusted in some cases.

Plot: Cecilia Kass (very well played by Elizabeth Moss) has an eccentric manipulator and millionaire boyfriend Adrian Griffin - that is, a potential perfect husband as most women in the audience think - who is also an optical engineer but above all has an obsession with Cecilia - that we never understand why if he has so much money wouldn't it be easier to find another girlfriend? Apparently no! In the first scenes of the film she manages to put drugs to sleep in the water and while he sleeps she manages to escape from his house. Finally her sister comes to the rescue

It is never clear why she did not stay at her own sister's place; instead she stays at the home of her great childhood friend Detective James Lanier who lives with his daughter Sydney. Too scared to even go to the mailbox in front of the house Cecilia lives in fear of almost everything including sleeping alone. Two weeks pass and the news comes that Adrian has committed suicide leaving $ 5 million of his fortune through his lawyer and brother Tom. She then tries to go about her life normally but unexplainable facts start to happen in the house as soon as the Invisible Man begins to approach only to Cecilia who begins to distrust Adrian's own suicide. Going ahead with even a few good scares the story is more like a cliche because since only Cecilia feels the presence of the Invisible Man everyone thinks she is going crazy or simply because she is traumatized she is having illusions.

In a scene after being completely alone and abated by detective Lanier and his daughter Cecilia, who can't even sleep properly in fear, she decides to call her ex-boyfriend in the middle of the night and surprise!! His cell phone is in the attic of the house ... she then takes a ladder and goes up to the attic to investigate ... and I wonder ... if she was scared to death a few minutes ago how is she going to go up in the middle of the night in the attic alone? Earlier scenes shoed that she was afraid to get the mail… from where all this courage came from? Anyway… In another scene more in the middle of the film, in which Cecilia is interned in the sanitarium in a completely sealed cell and the Invisible Man also enters the cell. Why would he do that because if I were the Invisible Man this would be the last place I would like to be in if I became visible. Another scene in which she escapes and the Invisible Man attacks the guards of the sanatorium in a process of quick escape one of the policemen leaves a gun on the side and within Cecilia's reach she has time to stay on the floor watching the Invisible Man fight with more than three guards shoot two run away to escape and only then does Cecilia take that same weapon and go after him through the garage and then she goes out shooting. For what?

I will not comment on how the film ends but I can almost guarantee that "The Invisible Woman" is coming. For these and other gaffes in the plot of this film, I still stay with my faithful friend from 1933 starring Claude Rains who at least makes me laugh with pleasure and happiness for a film that is becoming more and more classic. But Elizabeth Moss does very well in this film and for the director Whannell I do prefer his previous 2018 film the smarter "Upgrade".