Daniel Craig: 5 Awesome Performances And 5 That Sucked
...And 5 That Sucked
5. Dr Ben Driscoll - The Invasion
Its the remake absolutely nobody realised we didnt need until it was far too late: the fourth film adaptation of the 1955 novel The Body Snatchers which features Nicole Kidman and some extremely disgusting fungus which seems to be grown on people all over the US. It came out a year after Casino Royale so I can only assume it was an insurance policy in case Bond didn't work out, but it now seems like just a cultural curio. (Pro tip for any budding filmmakers out there: if you want to scare people, dont make your Big Bad a kind of vegetation. It wont make people go, WAAAARGH, itll make them go, Urgh and then theyll remind themselves to sort out the grouting in the bathroom. Theyll spend the next 90 minutes worrying about their own fungal terror rather than whatever it is youre trying to scare them with.) Anyway, Craig trudges pretty blankly through the whole thing pretty joylessly. In the final climactic scene - and Im not giving away any spoilers here, because spoilers assume an intent to actually watch the film and I really recommend none of you do that - in which Dr Bens become infected by the spores and eventually gets kneecapped by Nicole Kidman, he switches to a mode which is aimed to be roughly near contemptuous and yet seductive but ends up much closer to the nearby parish of voiceover for luxury narrow boating companys promo video. Apart from anything else, he sounds bored. Me and you both, Danny lad.
