Jeanskynebu the audience applauded

Konterr Brilliant and touching

Ceticultsot Beautiful, moving film.

Brainsbell The story-telling is good with flashbacks.The film is both funny and heartbreaking. You smile in a scene and get a soulcrushing revelation in the next.

desperado_here This scene was the biggest icebreaker. She owned it!

burgerkalif Meg Tilly is phenomenal, as well as disturbingly sexy, as the cold and distant pod woman. Otherwise, this movie is silly, poorly scripted, way too fast-paced, has characters you never really care for, nearly none of the cleverly, slowly built-up paranoia and tension that made the '78 version so damn effective and engaging, yeah the list goes on ..First of all, choosing an army base as the location for the movie was a downright ridiculous idea .. I mean, soldiers are pretty much supposed to be cold, adhere strictly to conformity and suppress individuality already .. So how are you gonna tell the difference between humans and pod people?? This kinda defeats the entire purpose of the film, I think ..Then there is the pacing .. It simply moves on way too fast and abruptly. When Meg Tilly is transformed, no one except the little boy who saw the transformation first hand seems to notice it -- only when it becomes alarmingly clear that something isn't at all as it should be (when she gives her famous speech: "there's no one like you left"). Where is the growing suspicion, the fear and self-doubt that the '78 version portrayed so well? I guess there was no time for that in this version, as it moves from 'building-up tension' to 'fast paced action with no time to think' like all of a sudden, and way too abruptly .. And no time to actually get to know your protagonist family and learn to care for them .. Almost the entire family is wiped out by the pod people, and it didn't really get to me .. Unlike the '78 version, where both Elizabeth's and Matthew's transformations were absolutely horrifying ..4/10

Rainey Dawn This film is not 100% garbage but it's not a good film - it's is bad though. The only thing I like about this film are 3 actors: Meg Tilly, Forest Whitaker and R. Lee Ermey - that's it. Nothing else good can be said about this movie coming from me.If you want to see a good "body snatchers" film watch the original Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) or even the 1978 remake which is pretty good - the original is the best.This 1993 film - I have nothing good to say about it. The first 45 minutes is mainly about a family moving into a new area and the "drama' between a teen daughter, her father and step-mother. This teen daughter gets a new friend and a boyfriend - wow just wow. I am not wanting to watch a teen drama I'm wanting to watch another remake of Invasion of the Body Snatchers and this remake basically sucks - minus 3 actors that I have already mentioned. I'm giving it 3 stars - one star for each actor because the movie is terrible.3/10

The_Film_Cricket By its very definition this movie shouldn't be special. First, it resides in a genre that typically repeats itself over and over and over. Second, it is the second remake of a classic, in this case 'Invasion of the Body Snatchers'. But unlike most horror remakes this one is different. It's actually scary.We know the story by now: Aliens are dropping to earth and killing off human beings and leaving soulless clones in their place. A young girl named Marti (Gabrielle Anwar) not only discovers their plot but finds that it has settled in her home. Naturally, no one will believe her.Now this seems like a lot of hum-drum hooey but director Abel Ferrara gives it a genuine style. He avoids the haggard clichés that often are the norm for this kind of film. He cleverly uses the rigid military as the alien's base of operations. There is something at risk in 'Body Snatchers': Our very humanity.Why did so many people miss out on 'Body Snatchers'? I guess they were so tuned into these clichés that they didn't recognize a horror film without them. This is a horror movie that is steeped in it's atmosphere, it's action and doesn't waste time with a lot of talking heads and theories. Its a strange concept . . . a horror movie this is actually scary!