Inclubabu Plot so thin, it passes unnoticed.

Teddie Blake The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

Celia A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

Bob This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

jzappa Werner Herzog's Invincible tells the story of a Polish blacksmith in Nazi Germany who in his provincial integrity thinks he can protect his people after becoming the star at the Palace of the Occult in Berlin, which is overseen by a sinister man who dreams of becoming the Nazis' Minister of the Occult. Much of the movie's uncanny appeal comes from the contrast between the simple-mindedly innocent blacksmith-come-strongman and Tim Roth's wicked Hanussen, who trickles with studied malice. Standing between them is a young woman under Hanussen's mental force, who the strongman loves. The movie is supposedly based on a true story. I can conceive of various ways it could've been told unspectacularly, but Herzog has turned it into a movie in which we mostly have no clue what could possibly happen next.The movie has the evocativeness of a German silent film, bold in its expressionism and moralistic insistence. Its casting is critical, and intuitively right. Tim Roth is a menacing deceiver, posing as a man with extrasensory abilities, using hocus-pocus and theatrics as he hustles for position within the rising Nazi majority. There's a scene where he hypnotizes the strongman's love interest, and as he stares dauntlessly toward us, I wondered if it was feasible to hypnotize us as well. As for the untrained actor playing the strongman, the camera can look as closely as you like and never see anything insincere.Herzog always works to push us into the mythic and the mysterious. And here, there are shots of a stark, craggy seashore where the stones are covered with thousands of bright red crabs, all clambering away on their crustaceous errands. As with similar imagery in most of Herzog's other films, there can be no exact interpretation of this. And like most of his other films, Invincible is a unique experience. Herzog has gotten outside the tropes and confines of conventional movie storytelling, and confronts us where our sense of trust and belief keeps its skeletons.

Henry Fields "Invencible" tells the story of a strong young Jewish who travels to Berlin to try his luck in the previous days of Hitler's ascension to power. It's kind of an allegory about principles, about not giving up what we are. Herzog achieves moments of great beauty, with a great photography and nice production, but the script is not as good as it should have been. Also the movie is way too long. It's not in my Werner Herzog Top 5 but as I've said before it's a movie full of beauty and good vibrations that deals with one of those anti-heroes that Herzog loves to portrait.*My rate: 6/10

futures-1 "Invincible" (2002): I should always start by saying "Werner Herzog is one of my favorite film makers"… and then go into all the reasons (at least those for which I can find words). "Invincible" is based on a true story (in typical Herzog fashion), and focuses on two main characters – a man who claims to be the Psychic to the Nazis, and, a Jewish peasant strong man from Poland. They meet in 1932, just before Hitler takes power. As a true story, it is absorbing, that's for sure, but in the hands of Werner Herzog, he treats it with greater care and intentions – it becomes a parable, a story worthy of a religious text, a story with all the huge warnings and lessons in Life. Tim Roth plays the Psychic, recreating a wonderfully pompous, secretive, and nasty man at the height of his "powers". Jouko Ahola plays the plain, honest, earnest Peasant, a Strong Man, and the new Samson. His little brother plays a mystical role of near-narrator, a young prophet, a dedicated heart. "Invincible" is a grounded story, more in the style of Herzog's "Strozek" than, for example, his "Heart of Glass". Production values are high, unlike some of his superbly powerful, earlier, lower-budget films with film quality weaknesses I find distracting at times.

cchamber This is truly one of the worst pieces of cinema it has ever been my misfortune to be exposed to. I find it quite difficult to understand how anyone can say much good about this waste of time. True: the choreography of the cabaret scenes was fine and Tim Roth gave a spirited performance, but the lack of historical accuracy, the pathetic acting, the incredible lack of interesting content, and poor writing make this a very very sad piece of work indeed. Frankly, it seems that many people feel guilty about pointing out how bad this movie is. Perhaps this is understandable, but it does not change the simple fact that this stinks on a very grand scale.