The Invisible Man (2020) - Later Than Sooner Would Be Better.

★★★☆☆

It's been quite a while since my last English post, which was more than a month ago actually. I guess I've lost some sort of motivation to keep it up, partly because of the coronavirus scenario which has worn off my mood and interest for films, but mostly due to lack of viewers to my blog. Well, that's the fault of humanity, the weakness of our mind, as a matter of fact. We often fail to keep doing things that we used to love doing so much in the first place without any expectations. As long as there're expectations, there're disappointments. So to defy that and take it as practice, I'm back here again!

Right, 'The Invisible Man', as a horror as it seems initially, opens with a woman played by Elisabeth Moss (first introduced to me in 'Mad Men' series), trying to get away from a man in the middle of the night after seemingly having planned it for a long time! The mood's creepy and intriguing! The score's heart-pounding! The opening's very well done indeed. Later we're told that the men and the woman are actually a couple. The husband's a control freak! The wife's a victim already traumatized! That's why she's been taking birth control pills behind his back, and planning to get away. Then the husband commits 'fake' suicide and becomes invisible in some state of the art tech suits, and goes on to haunt the wife! From that point on, the film shifts, maybe unwillingly but inevitably, from an atmospheric horror to a cliched crime thriller! Still, like it's emphasized several times in the film, there're 'surprises' to keep you seated but as a whole, it's nothing extraordinary or unique!

Said that it's the fear of the unknown that drives us to be afraid, not of the thing itself. Once the thing's revealed, it's no longer intimidating or scary! The fault is, 'The Invisible Man' turns visible much too soon that it loses its grip only half way through, and fails to keep us involved and interested till finish! After all, it's a decent flick to kill time while there isn't much we can do but stay home right now, thanks to the mess-up going on out there that in fact every single one of us is responsible for!