The Invisible Man (2020)

Plot of the invisible Man: Cecilia manages to escape from the fortresslike habitation owned by her partner, who is extremely controlling. She is picked up by her sister and goes to stay with a friend, who is a policeman, and his daughter.  She seems to have got away, but then there is an announcement that he, Griffin, has committed suicide and she has an inheritance, announced by Griffin’s brother who is a lawyer. But Cecilia does not believe Griffin is dead, but thinks he is using his invisibility suit to track her. Is she being paranoid? No she isn’t and despite the fact that she can’t see anybody it becomes apparent that she is being stalked, and worse, her sister is murdered before her eyes and she is captured holding the knife. Soon she is imprisoned and despite the fact that she has been on the pill, pregnant. Can it get any worse?

Content of The Invisible Man: There is no sex or nudity and I don’t recollect any smoking or drinking. No matter where Cecilia is the camera focuses on bits of the rooms she is in but she, and we, can’t see anything. Eventually things start to happen which indicate that she is being attacked by someone we can’t see, and her life is gradually destroyed, finally culminating in her sister having her throat cut in a restaurant. Cecilia is banged up in a mental institution, and gradually the person who is invisible starts to reveal himself. We get to see the suit but it is not explained how it works, although it appears to be covered by very small cameras.

A View: This outing was feted by the very large number of critics who reviewed it. The approach the director took was to throw us into Cecilia’s problem without any exposition which actually gave it a slow start because the villain is invisible. But as time passes it livens up. It was not awful, but I don’t think it was as entertaining as the 400 odd critics though it was. So probably a watch while doing something else, and on reflection I’m not sure why it is an 18 in UK even though the bbfc cite the levels of violence as the reason.

Fun Fact: Apparently the director had problems with the need to pretend that the location which was Australia, was America.