The Invisible DVD Review

High school golden boy Nick Powell (Justin Chatwin) appears to have everything going for him. Good looks, intelligence, and a financially comfortable home life with his widowed mother. But looks can be deceiving. Nick's disconnected from his emotionally restrained mother (played by Marcia Gay Harden) and wants nothing more than to skip the last week of school to head off to England to study.

Unfortunately, Nick's best friend Pete ran into trouble with the school's resident tough guy (make that...tough woman). Annie (Margarita Levieva) is the ruthless leader of a gang of thugs, and she doesn't carry a knife just for show. No, Annie's armed and ready for action.

A horrible error in judgement by Pete sets Nick up to take the fall with Annie, who's angry enough to kill -- which she believes she does. But Nick's not quite dead and now his soul is free to wander around familiar places. Unable to communicate with the living, Nick becomes involved in a race against time. Nick can only stand invisibly by and hope that either Annie or Pete come clean or the Seattle police discover his still breathing body before he dies and it's too late.

The Bonus Features

Director David S Goyer and writer Christine Roum team up to talk about the film in a commentary track that's a little dry, but informative. Writer Mick Davis has his own track which is frequently without commentary because he watches the film instead of talking (he admits on the track that he hadn't seen the movie prior to doing his commentary). Yet of the two commentaries, it's Davis' that's worth listening to. Because he worked on the original film, he has a special insight into the story and the changes made from the novel to the film.