Invasion

2005

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7.5| 0h30m| TV-MA| en
Synopsis

In the aftermath of a hurricane the Florida Park Ranger and his family deal with strange occurrences, including luminescent creatures in the water. People in the town start to act different, who can you trust?

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Linbeymusol Wonderful character development!
WasAnnon Slow pace in the most part of the movie.
Dorathen Better Late Then Never
InformationRap This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.
dacrontoke_420 There are very few shows that are as complex and thrilling as invasion. Somehow i entirely missed this shows television life, noticing it on the shelf of a local pawn shop i picked it up thinking, "meh... something to watch when I'm board" little did i know i would have the entire series done in the next two days. Overall i thought the show was perfect it isn't just a sci-fi about an alien invasion, it's more than that there are so many contributing factors to the story line. ANyways my point is invasion is a unique gem that should never have been cancelled. The show was just going in such a good direction and the note they leave us on is unfair..... This show needs to come back to at least conclude the story, i mean like come on i know for a fact there are a million angry fans out there. Someone should definitely write the producers of this show because i don't know how much longer i can go with out the answers...... PLEASE JUST FINNISH THE SHOW!!!! even with a different cast as long as you kept Tom, Mirial, Russel and Larkin... it just doesn't make sense to have such a unique and powerfully interesting plot and not conclude it. PLEASE SOMEBODY
racimegacar Very good TV show, with no end. William Fichtner(love him in a Prison Break) as sheriff and Eddie Cibrian as Russell was great acting. Very original way to see invasion on earth, there is something in the water, as you watch show you discovering what it is, is it good or is it bad, does it make people better, or make it worse...very interesting, and than what, end of the show :( . Acting was good, production was good, effect was god...Invasion have everything to become great TV show. I see many TV shows that are much worse than this one, and they have 4, 5 season. I really hate those TV network who start something, and doesn't finished. It is great contempt to fans of show, and it is not all right. I am very disappointed.
davidm-14 A small town in Florida becomes isolated after a severe hurricane, which is apparently exactly what the aliens, who are using the weather as cover to enter the water and start killing and duplicating the residents, want. But that's only half the story.Events are told through the eyes of a splintered family; park ranger Russell Varon (Eddie Cibrian) and his new wife, reporter Larkin Groves (Lisa Sheridan), his two children, his ex-wife Mariel Underlay, who is chief of staff at the local hospital, and who is now married to the sheriff (William Fichtner).The series is nicely suspenseful, and fleshes out the characters so that you really care what happens to them. It keeps you hooked and slowly doles out the reality in tantalizing bits and pieces to the characters and the viewers.
scipioUofR This is another one of those sci-fi series I've gotten on Netflix--along with Firefly, The 4400, Enterprise, and the Lost Room--that I absolutely loved and couldn't get the DVDs in fast enough to watch before I'd be waiting for the next one.This was a variation of old "body snatchers" sci-fi scenario, with a very good delivery of the story, good acting, and subtle nuances unique to the series. The mood was morose and slow-paced at times, which may bore some people, or may remind them of Stanley Kubrick and paint vivid still pictures of the unfolding semi-tragic scenario.Let me say right off the bat that William Fichtner's portrayal of Sheriff Underlay cannot be overpraised, and he really steals the show from the ostensible All-American hero played by Eddie Cibran. The show and had unexpected depth for a prime-time show in portraying the Sheriff Underlay's "Anti-Villain" character, someone pursuing good but compelled to effect evil by his own ambition, overwhelming responsibility and the impossible circumstances in which he finds himself. (Think of Agammemnon or Anikin Skywalker). Also a nice touch was Fichtner's broad head/wide-eye socket appearance that had a subtle fish-like quality."Invasion" was no exception to "body snatcher" sci-fi story containing portraying modern archetypes and latent social fears. Among them are various governmental agencies that are ubiquitous and meta-powerful in the setting of the series, both a source of support and an agency of control and intrusion. Another theme, in the aftermath of a hurricane, is modern society's inability to cope with assaults by natural forces, be they meteorological events or the passion and crusading aggression of a predatory "people". Throughout the series there is a point where the protagonists learn a way to keep the "hybrids" from thriving, but which would involve violence, violation of moral imperatives, and destruction to their community and loved ones. The result is a Hamletesque moral vacillation in the face of an existential threat to humanity until the threat is too large and pervasive. Alternatively, a more "liberal" view of the theme is the struggle of an established class in society to view the intrusion of outsiders--or insiders who have changed into outsiders--when their arrival may not be as big of a threat as they thought.One can't help comparing the events to the modern conflict with radical Islam or other viral ideologies, as during the 1940-60s Cold War era conflicts with fascism/communism, when these types of themes in science fiction were also popular. You can chalk "Invasion" up as typical of the post-9/11 "malevolent universe" sci-fi, where aliens have gone from being cute, cuddly friendly creatures to being a threatening presence whose motives and actions are questioned and feared."Invasion" will also go down as a show canceled before it's time, too sophisticated and niched for the broad audience that it's budget required, doomed with Firefly and Arrested Development to be an incomplete cult-classic.