I went in to “The Invisible” with considerable expectations, I hate to admit. The premise not only sounded interesting, but I think this remake of the Russian thriller had plenty of promise to deliver such a unique take on a murder mystery. Instead, what I got was a CW teen melodrama with the supernatural serving as a secondary element only integrated with an attempt at steep Christian undertones. Meanwhile, the actual plot ends up as nothing more than a severe take off from the likes of “Ghost” and “The Sixth Sense.” David Goyer’s remake pushes this gimmick that it’s a sleek little mystery, even by the theatrical poster, but what you’ll get is nothing more but an emo drama where a group of brutally whiny privileged children stagger about complaining about everything as the writers anxiously bait the audience with scenes so emotionally manipulative, I wanted to desperately seek out the original. There is no way it could be this bad. No way. “The Invisible” has no idea what it wants to be. Is it a crime thriller” Is it a murder mystery? Or is it a redemption tale? Damned if you’ll ever find out.
 

After having his head bashed in and dropped off a cliff in to the woods by main character Annie, the writers back pedal by exhaustively trying to convince us that little Annie isn’t such a bad person. I mean she mercilessly murdered a young man who was innocent and possibly left his mother a broken shell of a human being, but we should like her! Why? Uh… well, she has a bad father, and she loves her little brother. As if the constant grabs for sympathy toward the Annie character isn’t pathetic enough Margarita Levieva gives an awful performance as the tortured heroine who is at first a villain and then is really the only saving grace to finding Nick’s body. What? He’s not dead? How convenient! You see, Nick’s not dead, he’s just in limbo. His body is missing and he’s almost alive. When you think you’ve had enough, “The Invisible” loses all steam halfway through and relies on pointless absurd shoehorned scenes of car chases and gang members, that drones on and on until Goyer and co. deliver a final ridiculous scene ripping heavily from “Ghost.” I was never sure what “The Invisible” wanted to be, but after I was finished, I knew what it ended up being: Crap.