And if you aren’t gripped by that opening sequence, you’re in trouble, because Moss does a lot more tiptoeing and breath-holding from then on. It begins with Elisabeth Moss’s character, Cecilia, tiptoeing around a house, holding her breath, and hoping that someone doesn’t pounce on her.
INVISIBLE MAN MOVIE MOVIE
Two stars for superhero movie Birds of Prey If only the film itself had been clever or scary enough to do justice to its ingenious premise. It’s an original and timely feminist spin on HG Wells’s concept, and a welcome riposte to those thrillers that are fascinated by homicidal maniacs at the expense of their victims. As written and directed by Leigh Whannell, the story focuses instead on the woman he is stalking, and so rather than being about the liberation and temptation that might come with being unseen, it is about the ways in which men bully women, and the difficulty those women have in making anyone believe them. (And, luckily for him, no one in the film has heard of thermal imaging equipment.) But he is also invisible in the sense that he is absent for half the running time. True to form, he is invisible in the sense that no one can see him.
The title character in The Invisible Man is invisible in more ways than one.