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Saturday 29 February 2020
Film Review: ‘Invisible Man’ is a cunning if empty remake

By JAKE COYLE also-classic 1933 film. This takes refuge in the home of
Associated Press “Invisible Man” might have a childhood friend, a po-
Unraveling the dusted ban- stayed closer to that vi- lice officer (Aldis Hodge),
dages of H.G. Wells’ classic sion had a box-office bust and his daughter (Storm
1897 science-fiction novel, not interfered. After “The Reid). There, she trembles
writer-director Leigh Whan- Mummy,” with Tom Cruise, with dread at the thought
nell has refashioned “The fizzled, Universal Pictures of Adrian coming for her.
Invisible Man” as a brac- canceled its Marvel-esque Her intense paranoia is only
ingly modern #MeToo alle- monster franchise dubbed momentarily relieved when
gory that, despite its brutal the Dark Universe. Out she gets news that he has
craft, rings hollow. went plans for Johnny killed himself. But when
Our image of Wells’ villain Depp as the Invisible Man. she begins to sense an ee-
— the white wrappings, the In came a violent, low-bud- rie presence, and notice
dark sunglasses — comes get Blumhouse-produced things like an unexplained
largely from James Whale’s re-imagining from the co- imprint on the rug, Cecilia
knows that Adrian — “a
world-leader in optics” ca-
pable of extreme discover-
ies — is still with her. “He’s
not dead,” she says. “I just
can’t see him.”
A pervasive terror cloaks
the movie. It’s elevated
considerably by Moss, an
actress thoroughly at home
in the most prickly, anxious
and unsettling situations.
This image released by Universal Pictures shows Elisabeth Moss Her Cecilia is a portrait of a
in a scene from "The Invisible Man." woman desperately claw-
Associated Press ing for her freedom, but
creator of the “Saw” fran- hand draped over her in haunted by the specter,
chise. The bandages and bed. With barely hushed real or imagined, of her ter-
shades, needless to say, panic, she makes her well- rorizing ex. Trembling and
didn’t make the cut. planned nighttime escape tortured, Moss makes her
Instead, this “Invisible Man” from his bleakly modern- stalking terrifyingly palpa-
has shifted its focus from ist seaside house while the ble.
Wells’ optics scientist to sound of waves pummel- But there’s also a sense,
a woman, Cecilia (Elisa- ing the northern California from early on, that “The In-
beth Moss), running from shoreline thunder around visible Man” is more inter-
him and fleeing a toxic re- her. ested in utilizing a clever
lationship. In the movie’s The man, Adrian (Oliver and timely conceit for jump
breathtaking opening (one Jackson-Cohen), we don’t scares and muscular, half-
seemingly modeled af- quiet see. But we immedi- visible action sequences
ter “Sleeping With the En- ately get a vivid sense of than for any genuine ex-
emy”), she carefully, with his abusiveness from Ceci- ploration of Cecilia’s psy-
disgust on her face, lifts the lia’s white-knuckle fear. She chology. q

The Abbey Road Institute opens its 1st

U.S. school in miami

Grammy-winning Colombi-
an music producer. Abbey
Road Studios, where leg-
endary bands like The Bea-
tles and Pink Floyd record-
ed their albums, will open
its first U.S. music school in
Miami in partnership with
the Miami Art House Studio,
a recording studio founded
by top music producer Ju-
lio Reyes Copello, who has
worked with stars like Ricky
Awards hang on the wall in Colombian producer Julio Reyes Martin, Jennifer Lopez and
Copello's new Abbey Road Institute on Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2020, Marc Anthony. The project
in Miami. is an extension of the Ab-
Associated Press bey Road Institute, a music
By GISELA SALOMON world’s leading music stu- production education pro-
Associated Press dios has set its sights on gram held at the Abbey
Miami (AP) — One of the Miami, with the help of a Road Studios in London. q