'This is [Elizabeth Moss's] story: a story of trauma and what it means not to be believed, and there's not a breath of exploitation on screen. TheInvisibleMan is tracking to have a big weekend at the box office. I'll be rooting for it all the way.'
, starring a bloodthirsty Carey Mulligan. We’ll see if the latter finds a big audience, but so far none of these films has truly broken through.
That may be about to change this weekend with the opening of writer/director Leigh Whannell’s muscular horror thriller, starring Elisabeth Moss, an actor who seems more formidable with every role she takes on. In this she plays Cecilia Kass, a victim of domestic abuse at the hands of a young tech visionary named Adrian , who has subjected her to unknown suffering .
Cut to a nondescript San Francisco suburb where Cecilia has taken refuge with a policeman friend played by Aldis Hodge and his teenage daughter, Sydney . After the white-knuckle opening sequence, the exposition in these scenes is deflatingly pro forma , but even here Moss classes up the proceedings.
Not so fast. The course the movie will take is pretty clear: Adrian has used his optics know-how to fashion himself an invisibility suit, and in it he will continue to isolate, gaslight, and torture Cecilia. Whannell’s last film was the streamlined sci-fi B movie—a fun night at the cinema, as I recall—and here he further proves his talent for no-nonsense tension building.
The film isn’t going to win any awards, but you have to hand it to Whannell: He is smart enough to keep his invisible man invisible. Yes, Adrian appears in his optics suit during the climactic finale, but Moss is the one who dominates every scene. This isstory: a story of trauma and what it means to not be believed, and there’s not a breath of exploitation on screen.
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