The residents of San Francisco are becoming drone-like shadows of their former selves, and as the phenomenon spreads, two Department of Health workers uncover the horrifying truth.
This film wants to have it both ways: to have a more urbane, more "important" scope than the original, and yet retain some of its inexpensive intimacy as well.
– Richard Schickel,
TIME Magazine,
22 Oct 2010
fresh:
Invasion of the Body Snatchers validates the entire concept of remakes.
– Variety Staff,
Variety,
26 Mar 2009
fresh:
Set at the intersection of post-Vietnam paranoia and the myopic introspection that became hippiedom's most lasting cultural contribution, the Philip Kaufman-directed Invasion alternates social commentary with impeccably crafted scares.
– Keith Phipps,
AV Club,
1 Sep 2007
fresh:
Ideas that Siegel knocked off in a few shots are expanded to fill entire sequences -- but they're good ideas, and can stand a little stretching.