One can not be too careful when being around scientists working on some project involving some type of energy that you can not get from your local electric company. Being in the presence of these giants of the mind can result in someone’s body chemistry radically changing. It can cause someone to develop the powers of a spider, or the ability to morph into a green monster when angry, or a small harmless ant to grow to the size of a small sky scrapper. Or it can cause a man trying to sleep off a hangover to become invisible.
After a night of boozing it up, after trying to score with a beautiful blonde named Alice Monroe (Darryl Hannah,) Nick Halloway (Chevy Chase) board out of his mind at some lecture decides to find a quiet place to rest his head. He approaches a room where scientist are busy working on something scientific and distracts one of them by asking where the bathroom is. This causes him to spill his cup of coffee on his keyboard, causing a chain of events that lead to everyone having to evacuate the building. This movie highlights the reasons why liquid should be kept far away from computers.
Nick however does not leave the building and wakes up to see parts of the building missing. They are however not missing but have become invisible. The partially invisible building is one of the more impressive architectural designs ever brought to a science fiction film. Nick on the other hand has become wholly invisible. This really wigs him out and also makes him become the primary target of CIA agent David Jenkins (Sam Neil) who wants to use him as an invisible hit man. Those with power always seem to want those with some type of unordinary power to be under their power. Nick always dreamed of being invisible, but being chased by the government, and having to avoid running into people make the dream better then the actually reality.
The rest of the picture has Nick running away from David and trying to come to grips with his strange situation. Putting everyday normal guy Chevy Chase in the character of Everyday normal guy Nick brings an authentic reality to a role that is meant to be that of a everyday guy trying to cope with an unusual situation. The audience takes a journey with Nick in his strange new life, getting glimpses of the character as he really is with no visible body and for the sake of camera as the person we would see if he was visible.
The movie never develops into a full out action movie although it has its moments. The fun is in seeing Chevy Chase in various degrees of invisibility, including putting makeup on to make him visible to his love interest, Alice . The ending of the film seemed natural enough to the flow of the film, but somehow I wanted a different ending for reasons that would spoil it for those of you who haven’t seen it.
A overall interesting time hanging out with Chevy Chase, Sam Neil and others. The movie was directed by John ‘Halloween, Big Trouble in Little China’ Carpenter and the screenplay co-written by William ‘The Princess Bride’, Goldman.
When he wrote his Memories did Nick use Invisible Ink?
A NormalMe Storyblazer Review
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