A ‘forgotten’ thriller movie starring Daniel Craig and Nicole Kidman has been unearthed connected social media and fans are giving it 10/10.
The James Bond star, 56, and the Academy Award-winning actress, 57, some starred successful Oliver Hirschbiegel’s thriller movie The Invasion successful 2007.
However, the movie was a immense flop astatine the container office, failing to marque backmost its £60million budget, and was overshadowed by different projects the stars were in.
The movie landed conscionable two years into Daniel Craig’s stint arsenic 007, portion Nicole was successful The Golden Compass and Baz Luhrmann’s Australia astatine the time.
Additionally, The Invasion was released successful the UK during the aforesaid week arsenic The Bourne Ultimatum and just 2 weeks aft The Simpsons Movie.
It meant that the movie – which follows a psychiatrist noticing that radical astir her are changing aft a abstraction shuttle crashes connected Earth – has been ‘forgotten’ implicit the years.
The movie was primitively intended to beryllium a remake of the 1956 movie The Invasion of the Body Snatchers but was re-jigged to suit modern times instead.
Upon its release, it was besides slammed by critics, with the movie presently sitting astatine conscionable 20% connected Rotten Tomatoes with an mean standing of 4.3 retired of 10.
But its heyday mightiness beryllium astir the corner, with societal media users re-discovering the movie 17 years aft it launched astatine the worldwide container office.
Instagram relationship NetflixnMovies, which has implicit six cardinal followers connected the platform, shared a clip of the movie and captioned the post, ‘If you amusement immoderate emotion, you die.’
The station attracted implicit 370,000 likes and has received astir 2,000 comments, with galore of them praising and remembering the movie from 2007.
MoviesWithMia commented: ‘I truly enjoyed the mentation from the 70’s with Donald Sutherland, had a gritty astir noir consciousness to it. But this mentation was truly large arsenic well! I haven’t seen the 1 from ‘56 yet!’
Meanwhile, MalleahAllan said of the film, which is disposable connected Amazon Prime Video: ‘Oh my deity I’ve been looking for this movie forever.’
StefanVocuck praised the film: ‘Because I loved The Invasion of the Body Snatchers from 1956 I ne'er expected to emotion this movie, which is simply a reboot, truthful much. Nicole Kidman was fantastic successful this.’
The movie that was called ’10/10′ by immoderate fans has precocious been fixed an upgrade, with a 4K merchandise coming to the UK acknowledgment to Arrow Video.
So, it could beryllium the lawsuit that 2024 is the twelvemonth The Invasion yet gets its due, with streaming services playing a relation successful the revival of different films successful the past.
Invasion of the Body Snatchers was primitively a 1955 caller by Jack Finney, which was adapted into films successful 1956, 1978 (starring Donald Sutherland), and 1993.
Watch The Invasion connected Prime Video.
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