The Invasion (2007)

Jack Finney’s sci-fi novel The Body Snatchers has been filmed three times before: by Don Siegel in 1956 (see Lounge review, p138), Philip Kaufman in 1978 and Abel Ferrara in 1993. It’s an impressive pedigree, but sadly this fourth incarnation from Downfall director Oliver Hirschbiegel is little more than a pale imitation of its predecessors, bearing tell-tale scars of post-production jiggery-pokery (it has been reported that The Wachowski Brothers wrote new scenes that were then directed by James 'V For Vendetta' McTeigue).

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