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Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader: [It] may not be a patch on the original, but it does have a few things the other versions lack: a nonstop lurching pace propelled by jump cuts and flash-forwards, Nicole Kidman as the hero... and a bitter kind of satiric irony leaking around the edges. Read more
Mark Rahner, Seattle Times: It's such a laughable, scareless train wreck that you don't need to know the disastrous insider-baseball behind its production to hate it. Read more
Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: [It's] far from the worst thriller of the year, but it's wholly lacking in reasons for being. Read more
Joanne Kaufman, Wall Street Journal: Except for one terrifically adroit sequence in a subway, there is nothing understated about The Invasion. Read more
Keith Phipps, AV Club: Opting for car chases instead of the thought-provoking ideas of its predecessors, the film looks like the work of, if not pod people, folks who gave up any kind of passion for the material long before the cameras started to roll. Read more
Ty Burr, Boston Globe: In the way that certain baseball games become pitchers' duels, some movies are cutting-room battles. Read more
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: Still effectively creepy and surprisingly unnerving despite the occasional misstep and rumors of a troubled production, the new film illustrates why and how the power of the original story remains undiminished more than half a century after its creation. Read more
Bruce Westbrook, Houston Chronicle: Resistance is futile -- unless your screenplay can offer pat, absurd plot turns. Read more
Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor: How bad is it? Bad enough -- and yet this source material has such a high creep quotient that, on some level, it still scares. Read more
Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post: If you're familiar with the earlier films, The Invasion is even less satisfying. Read more
Tom Long, Detroit News: It might have been nice to see Hirschbiegel's original concept play out. As it is, the film's essential eeriness gets mashed into Hollywood hogwash. Read more
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: The Invasion gets you rooting for the aliens to be defeated, but the film's soul feels as if it had already been snatched. Read more
Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press: There have been two official remakes of Invasion, and both tapped into the original's fear and dread of a society subverted by the others. This one taps only into that part of the brain that shuts down when confronted with witless tedium. Read more
Tom Maurstad, Dallas Morning News: The movie offers plenty of smarts and imaginative distractions to counter the stacking of improbabilities. Read more
Scott Foundas, L.A. Weekly: Is there a Razzie Award for worst casting? If so, it's one of several that can be reserved early for this fourth. Read more
Christy Lemire, Associated Press: A film that feels truncated, rushed, unfocused and -- worst of all -- not the slightest bit scary or suspenseful. Read more
Gene Seymour, Newsday: Given its shiny surfaces, nouveau-chic grittiness and button-pushing sentimentality, this version feels as if it were made by the kind of beings the first three Body Snatchers movies warned us against. Read more
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: The Invasion has a few things to offer both summer-movie audiences and more thoughtful film buffs. Read more
Jack Mathews, New York Daily News: There is nothing here to be taken seriously, let alone fear. Read more
Lou Lumenick, New York Post: Nicole Kidman's character struggles to stay awake -- as will the audience. Read more
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: The script doesn't find ways to comment on our fearful times. Read more
Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer: The Invasion is mostly about delivering thrills, and chills, and this it does with moderate success and a bunch of fast, no-nonsense edits. Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: The mismatched blending of Hirschbiegel's low-key horror and the Wachowski Brothers' anything-but-low-key action sequences results in a cinematic dud. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: If the first three movies served as parables for their times, this one keeps shooting off parable rockets that fizzle out. How many references in the same movie can you have to the war in Iraq and not say anything about it? Read more
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: The Invasion connects on a gut level in two ways, political and existential. Read more
Dana Stevens, Slate: It falls far short as an effective sci-fi thriller, not to mention the brainy political allegory it's determined to be. Read more
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune: The Invasion is a science fiction nightmare, the spectacle of actors who can do first-rate work trapped in a soul-destroying mechanism created by madmen. Read more
Rick Groen, Globe and Mail: A movie that is ultimately a soulless clone of a vibrant original and, thus, a splendidly dull example of the very forces it warns us against -- the forces of grey and passion-sapping conformity. Read more
Peter Howell, Toronto Star: We'll have to wait until the inevitable director's cut DVD to find out what Hirschbiegel really wanted to say. It would have to be a whole lot more interesting than this accidental agit-prop, which equates pacifism with mindlessness. Read more
Scott Bowles, USA Today: Next time the aliens come invading, they may want to pass the brains, hold the lecture. Read more
Stephen Hunter, Washington Post: Has several first-rate, terrifying action sequences and grips totally from start to finish. Read more