Chevy Chase: 5 Awesome Performances And 5 That Sucked

4. Nick Halloway €“ Memoirs Of An Invisible Man (1992)

Give the man some credit, though. He was totally slumming it in Spies Like Us €“ everybody was totally slumming it in Spies Like Us €“ but he did try different things every so often as well. It's just that when he did, they were equally ill-fated, despite having a similar quantity of talent on board. In this case, the masterful John Carpenter (Escape From New York, Halloween) directed Chase in Memoirs Of An Invisible Man, loosely based on a 1987 sci-fi novel of the same name by HF Saint. It attempts to be a mix of drama, comedy, science fiction and thriller, with Chase starring as stock analyst who starts turning invisible. It doesn't work. It might've worked with the original set up, as a more straight comedy with Ghostbusters' Ivan Reitman directing from a script by genius William Goldman, but everybody hated each other. The finished film ended up being much more Chase's baby, a tonal mess where he struggles to deal with the more dramatic scenes.