The Invisible Man (I) (2020)
2/10
The movie was its own worst enemy. It failed in execution of the details.
16 July 2020
Warning: Spoilers
Over and over the characters made implausible choices, or the details had serious errors which detracted too much from being able to watch the movie and enjoy it.

For instance, when Cecilia drops a can of paint on the invisible man: moments later Griffin has cleaned his whole suit in the kitchen sink and is invisible again. Apparently the writers have never had to clean wet paint off of anything because this was way too quick, especially that the suit is full of crevaces... it would have been better for Griffin to leave for the night and come back later...

Cecilia's sister is overwhelmingly invested in helping Cecilia, but when she receives the email, she's completely turned on Cecilia. It's unbelievable that the sister would turn that quickly. Instead of that forceful of a turn and removing herself from Cecilia's life, the sister should have just said she needed space. This would have been a more believable response, still alienating Cecilia without making the reaction unbelievable.

Cecilia escapes the mental ward of the detention center through an unlocked stairwell door... Again implausible. She should have grabbed keys and. Leaving out a 5 second spot ruined the scene. Then when she's running around the parking lot there's only two guards after her despite the multiple guards she passed exiting the movie. These guards too are so far behind her that she can walk casually between cars. These guards would have been hot on her tail. Then, the second guard is no where in sight when Griffin is firing at the first guard. They seem to have disappeared just like the invisible man himself.

Wounds sustained by the invisible man don't seem to follow from scene to scene. He was stabbed by Cecilia, but those wounds never seem to follow into next scenes. Then in the last scene of the movie where she's sitting at the table, it would have been easy for her to touch him where she stabbed him, just to verify one of his many wounds he should have still been healing from.

After Griffin's brother Tom is killed, and it's been revealed that Adrian Griffin is still alive, the police simply believe that Tom did it all himself... Despite it being apparent that Adrian is still alive. Everyone seems to forget that Adrian faked his own death. This would have been impossible for Tom to pull off on his own. Meanwhile the police don't seem at all interested in the fact that Adrian Griffin is still alive. Again, totally implausible choices on behalf of the characters made the movie unenjoyable.

Things like this happened over and over again in the movie.
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