Review: The Invisible Man

I didn't know exactly what to expect from The Invisible Man when I sat down. The ads told me that the woman at the center, played by the always-compelling and more-interesting-than-your-average movie star, Elisabeth Moss, was not imagining it all. They told me that, eventually, others would suffer the wrath of the man formerly known as visible and that he was a manipulative prick. They told me she would fight back.

Okay. Did they give away too much? Could I predict what was going to happen in every act?

Lights down. Film starts. Our hero is in bed with the man we assume will torture her for the rest of the film. She wakes up. She moves away from him very carefully. I won't play out the sequence, but what doesn't happen is the filmmaker showing us much about him. That would be the normal play. We know he will end up being invisible somehow... probably not just in her imagination. But unless we have been misled, he isn't going to be the center of the film. So we need to know... No, we don…