The Invaders

1995
5| 0h30m| en
Synopsis

The Invaders (or The New Invaders) is a two-part television miniseries revival based on the 1967-68 original series The Invaders. Directed by Paul Shapiro, the miniseries was first aired in 1995. Scott Bakula starred as Nolan Wood, who discovers the alien conspiracy, and Roy Thinnes appears very briefly as David Vincent, now an old man handing the burden over to Wood.

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Alicia I love this movie so much
ThiefHott Too much of everything
Monkeywess This is an astonishing documentary that will wring your heart while it bends your mind
Janis One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.
david-sarkies The Invaders is more of a mini-series than a movie but I will treat it as one. I saw it over two nights and thought that it was okay. The Invaders has many echos of the Charlie Sheen movie The Arrival. The plot is almost exactly the same. Aliens have landed on Earth and have established themselves. They are now infiltrating the world and slowly terraforming it so that they may be able to survive on what is to them a hostile environment. The movie ends in a way that the battle is won but the war is far from over.Compared to the Arrival, I found The Invaders to be a much more subtle and horrific movie. Though both movies had a hidden alien agenda, the Invaders deals with the aliens using humans to destroy the world for them while the Arrival has the aliens destroying the world themselves. Though both movies have aliens disguised as humans, the aliens in The Invaders use controlled humans to execute their plans while they just stand by and watch. These aliens are far more intelligent than they are in the Arrival.I find that the Invaders is by far a better movie. The actors are unknown which brings the focus more onto what is happening than onto the star whom most people go to see. The plot is very much in the vain of an X-file, with the truth not being exposed to the viewer until near the end. The hero (or more of an anti-hero in the case of the Invaders) is alone in his fight against the aliens. The victory that was won was a very small one, much smaller than the victory in the arrival. At the end the audience is left with the wondering of whether the victory really did something at all. The aliens are entrenched and there is no realistic way that they are going to be removed quickly. I liked this movie. The characters were reasonable and non-stereotypical. Some might find aspects of this unrealistic but I feel that this leads to a new level in characterisation. There is no true pure hero. The setting is very dark and gloomy and so are the characters. There is a huge amount of futility for though the aliens are known the evidence just does not exist. The ending does not offer a solution either for the hero does not become a hero in the Hollywood sense of the word.This movie is spooky and well thought out. It is one that brings out thoughts and really entertains the audience. Though it is long, one does not worry about this for the suspense brings it quickly to the end – and the end leaves you wondering; which to me is the sign of a very good movie.
ronbo36316 I agree that the movie "The Invaders" had its problems, it was long and tedious, and sometimes confusing. But to diss a movie because of Factual errors? Its Hollywood; what did you expect? them to hire Physics experts to give them the information to keep these factual mistakes down? raoulfenderson must be such, maybe he or she should offer services to Hollywood.. I enjoyed the movie for what it was, a movie, even though it was low tech, and tedious sometimes, as I believe the makers were shooting for. After all, the movie was based upon a somewhat campy/cheesy TV show from 1966/1967. As I write this, I am watching the series on SciFy Channel, just as cheesy as the movie, but just as enjoyable as the old days...
possumopossum The original show produced by Quinn Martin was intelligently done with Roy Thinnes as architect David Vincent as the lone voice that cried out in the wilderness against these alien beings. This mini series made a joke out of it. Now, the old boy makes only a couple of cameo appearances. If you blink, you'll miss him. You would think this movie would open with him stumbling on this Nolan Wood guy and the two of them would work together to try to bring these beings down, but no. Just a mile ride down a lonely country road, he says they need to split up so they won't be captured together and blah, blah, blah. What is this crap? After all these years, I would think he would be glad to find a kindred soul who would be of some help to him. Vincent looks like a dingbat in the brief appearance he makes in this series. They should have teamed up together.This series also got pc on us. It seems to imply that anyone who smokes is a hostile being from another planet. Any smokers out there willing to get the ACLU after the people who made this pile of crap? And this business with the flies was just a little bit gross. And Nolan's ex-wife had to be one ditzy female. At least their son called her on not noticing that there is anything weird about all these people coming in and having steak and eggs with their cigarettes and coffee. Got to give them credit for that at least. And what was with this radio announcer who, I think was supposed to be a Rush Limbaugh clone? Here's a news flash for you, folks. Rush isn't as hateful as this guy was. But I digress. Bottom line: this show ain't worth a tinker's damn without David Vincent. They just used this movie as an excuse to preach misguided environmental themes. As I said in the heading, BAD! BAD! BAD! (Did I mention it was bad?) 1 out of 10, and that's being generous.
lrek-1 The movie was broadcast, and appears on the commercial VHS release, in two parts. The first has some creepy moments (although they have little to do with the show's '60s incarnation), but the second quickly deteriorates into a simple-minded impending-disaster-on-a-train scenario that just left me cold and probably belonged in another movie. Made more "relevant" for the mid-90s -- by introducing the idea that the aliens were trying to get us to degrade our planet and thus make it habitable for them -- the ecological subtext seems a little knee-jerk ten years later. The acting was competent, although I doubt that Bakula's confused, rather passive protagonist could have sustained an entire series. Not even an interesting failure.