The Unseen

The movie was okay. The begining was wicked slow and kind of boring. It got a little more fast paced around halfway through. It was kind of confusing, they didnt explain the condition the man had and I hated the ending.... didnt even explain what was going to happen to them later on in life or anything. The acting was good. Very mysterious.

Just finished watching this film.

My rating is five, I was going to give it less but I thought the execution of the story was good, the acting was also good the only thing wrong with this film they didn't use the story to it's full extent.

My feeling is that the film was a wasted potential for the director.

Give this a watch, it's quite slow in parts but it has it's moments.

Give it a watch and see what I mean when I say it's a missed opportunity.

Well that was a waste of time. Didn't care for this film. It was extremely slow and unentertaining. I didn't stick around to find out why he was disappearing. I turned it off with about 30 minutes left.

Most of the movie is the usual dysfunctional male w/issues resolved w/drugs & alcohol. Usual can't connect well w/family, or anyone else for that matter. So he's off to rescue the troubled, hasn't seen in ages, teen daughter as our plot focal point. Oh, and in some not explained, failure to pass grade school science sort-of-way, they both are slowly disappearing. Yes, like ever expanding parts of their body don't physically exist - OK!. Except some how those parts can still touch the real physical world. Usual green screen to fill in the missing parts w/background. It's not even fantasy, it's just dumb!

Most of this is what you'd call kitchen sink drama--or the Canadian version of that. Dour uneventful life presented in a dour uneventful way. The set up is good and the final 20 minutes also finally mix invisible "problem" with real life problem into a satisfying ending. But at 97 minutes you feel you've seen a first draft screenplay for a short film tortured into a feature length.

Now it's not just that there aren't invisible "Gags" every other scene, it's that as a drama it's all very slow paced and in the worst sense Canadian.

Effects, what ones there are, are very well done but the connection and balance of existential invisibility and kitchen sink drama--really melodrama, isn't there.

Another thing is, it chooses to present invisibility as a sort of genetic problem not really talked about. This works well. Then unfortunately they introduce some mystical Chinese tea into the story? Either make this a supernatural or existential story--here they kind of mix the least exciting elements of both.

The writer and director just doesn't really have a handle on what would make this all work.

It has a first timer feel to the pacing--where everything just goes on and on so we hang for every last small nuance of performance. The performances are good, but the whole thing has the pace of a hangover.

Nicely produced. A good idea. But the script isn't there. Somewhere where between the over-the-top dumb exploitation of The Hollow Man and the small mostly-nothing-happens approach to this film is the film they were trying to make. As they say A for effort....