German director Oliver Hirschbiegel's notoriously troubled version of Jack Finney's 1955 novel
The Body Snatchers — the fourth — was shot in 2005 and shelved, reportedly because his cut lacked action. After a Wachowski-brothers rewrite, V FOR VENDETTA director James McTeigue did significant reshoots in early 2007 — Hirschbiegel was supposedly unavailable — and the result is a frantic mess that opens with a scene plucked from the film's third act that smacks of having been moved up to pacify audiences too restless for a slow build.
A flashback shows the space shuttle Patriot falling to Earth in flames, blanketing the ground w...
Released:
2007
Rated:
PG-13
Length:
99 mins