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Summary:
Annie hates Nick Powell for being rich and popular in school, and one night gangs up on him and beats him up and leaves him for dead. Nick roams the real world as a spirit while trying to make contact from the other side to bring justice and order in his newfound chaos.

Review:
Well then. Many will compare this to Ghost, but I have to say the similarities are MUCH MUCH stronger between this and the novel The Lovely Bones by Alice Siebold. I did some studying (meaning 5 minutes with google), and a source tells me (meaning a German Wiki entry) that the novel the 2002 movie is based on was written in 2000 by a Swedish author. The same year The Lovely Bones was published. Very interesting. So basically, if you take Ghost and said novel and mixed those together with a "rockin" modern day pop rock score for the raving 12 and 13 year olds, you've got The Invisible.
With the annoying music score that keeps pooping out shit bands that make me scream, I'd have to say that I enjoyed this flick more than I expected to. Mind you, it's not that good, and I wouldn't recommend it to anyone more than say, thirteen, but it's not too shabby. There are some honest moments, especially with Marcia Gay Harden playing the somewhat oblivious mother to Nick. I liked her performance in a scene just after reading one of her son's painfully pretentious poems for the first time.
Margarita Levieva is a rather hot chick. I'd like to see her in more movies. As Annie Powell, she is a girl who's had tough luck and covers her insecurities with a rough exterior. Of course Nick sees past her toughness as her need to hide weakness, and so it makes her mad and bully him. Justin Chatwin did alright as Nick, but I couldn't get past his obvious white-boy pain appearance. His features are just those of a leader of one of the rock bands that keeps shitting on this movie's sound track. I keep being reminded that this is NOT a movie for adults. It's centered straight to the teen audience.

The Invisible is passable fair for the most part. It could easily have been much improved, but for what it is, it isn't so bad. It's not worth checking out on the big screen. Hell, if you don't check it out at all, you won't miss out on much.

GRADE: C-

Reviewed 5/7/07