Fourth time around on screen for Jack Finney's serviceable Body Snatcher novel, refashioned for the CGI era, the CNN era, the post-9/11 era, the "postmodern feminist" era, the text-message and laptop era. It still functions. An alien-invasion scenario is perhaps not the most obvious choice for the English-language debut of the German director of the Third Reich docudrama, Downfall, but Oliver Hirschbiegel appears fully committed. And nor is a creepily airbrushed, powdered, creaseless, and wrinkle-free Nicole Kidman (this woman is over forty, people!) the best spokesperson for humanness and humankind. Please study closely the psychiatric session in which we cut back and forth between her patient (Veronica Cartwright, who had a role in the 1978 remake) and herself, her patient and herself, her patient and herself, a human and a whatsit, a human and a whatsit.... With Daniel Craig, Jeremy Northam, Jeffrey Wright, and Jackson Bond. (2007) — Duncan Shepherd
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