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Invasion, The

Long delayed and obviously fussed with, this third Body Snatchers variation is a mess of a movie. Yet the irony is that the disjointedness largely works in the picture’s favor. This time Nicole Kidman resists the alien intelligence that has turned everyone around her into compliant automatons. Disorientation is a natural part of the story, so the movie’s many mishaps – the jarring transitions, the awkward edits, the fact that we never really know who Daniel Craig is supposed to be – only heighten the sense of dislocation. Screenwriter Dave Kajganich, meanwhile, adds some tantalizing modern twists, including the suggestion that losing our individuality is the only way to achieve peace (once the aliens start taking over, fighting stops in places like Iraq and Darfur).

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