The Invisible Man

THE GIST: After a woman runs away from her abusive husband, he commits suicide. While incredulous at first, she slowly begins to believe she can resume living a normal life. Then, odd events start occurring that make her doubt her husband is really dead. But who can believe her theory that an invisible man is hunting her?

This new retelling of the rather old The Invisible Man's story is quite impressive. Naturally, most of the credit goes to Elisabeth Moss, who does a great job of portraying a terrified, abused woman with seemingly nowhere to turn.

I would also like to commend the script however, because the pacing and overall structure is really good, and the building tension is palpable.

What I found astounding instead was the poor occasional visual effect, if you can believe it. Towards the end especially, in a few scenes, the invisible man is clearly computer generated and looks stiff as a board. I can understand that a rainy scene made a believable VFX hard to pull off, but we've all seen incredible real-looking effects lately, even on television (take the Game of Thrones's dragons or The Walking Dead's tiger), so when you see it, it's pretty jarring.

THE BOTTOM LINE: I absolutely recommend this movie to both drama and horror fans. The story is well told and the acting really good. Can I say it's scary good?

Grade: 8