Directed by: Leigh Whannell
Notable cast: Elisabeth Moss, Oliver
Jackson-Cohen, Harriet Dyer, Aldis Hodge
Universal has been trying to modernize its classic monster
lineup non-stop for two decades. They started strong, with The Mummy in
1999 and most recently ended very weakly, with 2017’s The Mummy. The
weaker efforts in the interim have had a single consistent problem, which is
that they were forward-looking, so focused on making their own Avengers that
they forgot to make a single decent stand-alone film. The Invisible Man,
conversely, is an exceptionally small story with a humble budget given to the rapidly
emerging powerhouse duo of producer Jason Blum and writer/director Leigh
Whannell, teaming here for the third time (after 2015’s Insidious Chapter 3,
and the criminally underseen Upgrade from 2018).