The Invisible Man: Meets @MeToo

One hundred and thirteen years ago, H.G. Wells wrote a sci-fi thriller that has fascinated generations of readers. Including the Movie Slut. It inspired movies with the same title in 1933, 1940, 1984, and now. (And that's not counting films with the same subject, but different names, like The Invisible Kid, The Amazing Transparent Man, and The Invisible Woman.) Which begs the question, "Do we need this new version?"

Of course we don't. But that doesn't mean we don't want it.

The new flick does a nice job of using modern technology to bring the story to a new millennium. It adds the Me Too movement into the plot to make it timely. And Elizabeth Moss proves herself an excellent actress for this horror film.

The only missing element is a diligent editor who would have cut about thirty flabby minutes out of the two hour and five minutes running time. The Wells masterpiece was a mere 146 pages. At an hour and thirty-five minutes, the movie could have been almost as lean and mean as the book.