The Invisible

Writer-turned-director David S. Goyer's vapid remake of the Swedish DEN OSYNLIGE (2002) , which was unscreened for critics, is a textbook illustration of the American movie industry's ability to take an offbeat foreign film and systematically alter or soften every provocative and original thing about it.

Eighteen-year-old Nick Powell (a mopey Justin Chatwin) gets good grades, doesn't drink, do drugs, indulge in typical teenage hell-raising and has never, ever disobeyed the cold, widowed mother (Marcia Gay Harden) who's plotted out his shining future with the steely pragmatism of a five-star general. And he's desperately, suffocatingly unhappy; Nick wants to...