Unfortunately, most recent film projects in the genre of detective thriller for the most part do not present any special surprises. The fact is that the audience oversaturation and “watchfulness” prevent you from enjoying watching the next tape. Fans of the genre are now very difficult to surprise for real. Therefore, the reviews of the film “The Invisible Guest” by the director and scriptwriter Oriol Paolo are quite restrained, despite the high IMDb rating: 8.10.
Cinematic puzzle
Cinema "Invisible guest" reviews of the audience are often compared with a mosaic. With a brilliant acting ensemble play and overall exemplary quality, the picture continually evokes vague associations, looking as if experiencing deja vu. The feeling that “I already saw this, but I can’t remember where” is haunted throughout the duration of the film. Reviews of the film “The Invisible Guest” focus on its structure, which is a mosaic, of familiar episodes that are thoroughly ground to each other perfectly, but individually familiar. This fact is somewhat disappointing.
Plot
The film "The Invisible Guest" also received mixed reviews from critics. Film experts pointed to the secondary nature of the plot of the project.
At the center of the story is a young and promising businessman Adrian Doria, accused of murdering his mistress. Desperate, the young man decides to seek help from Virginia Goodman, who is considered the best specialist in overcoming difficult situations. In anticipation of the trial, the protagonist is under house arrest. Virginia comes to him in order to work out the best defense strategy. For a lawyer, this is the last thing in her career, and she is determined to win it at all costs.
Gaining momentum
The truth that if you want to securely hide something, then leave it in plain sight is well known to the director of the project, Oriol Paolo. This is exactly how the creator’s idea and its application in the tape are described by reviewers in reviews of the film “The Invisible Guest”. The new project of the director of “The Body” and the co-author of the script “Insight” practically does not deceive the expectations of the viewer. Despite the fact that the picture does not have an original conception, those who look will not have to be bored for a long time. The narrative is in a fever from a continuous shift in emphasis, clashes of beliefs and points of view right up to the climax of the final scene. Hypotheses, facts, logical conjectures, circumstantial evidence in the case, fabricated confessions, eyewitness accounts and spontaneous confessions pour in non-stop, as if from a cornucopia, cutting off everything that is insignificant to complete “insight”. Critics in their reviews of the film "The Invisible Guest" claim: at the moment when the puzzle is solved, everything will turn out to be completely different from what it seemed to be turned upside down.
According to the proven scheme
In his second directorial project, Oriol strictly follows a debut-tested narrative scheme. The canvas, as in "Tele", unfolds in an intricate mode of alternating flashbacks. In the cinema, there is again an unclear motivation of the forces opposing the main character and the uncertainty of his guilt. As the reviews of the film “The Invisible Guest” emphasize, behind the author’s fascinating and intriguing multi-way approach there is a conflict of guilt and retribution for the committed atrocity - either cold-blooded or accidental.
At the same time, the authors notice that the second director's work is not self-repetitive, it is rather a skillful variation on the topic of a secret hidden in sight. The psychological duel of the key characters of the accused and the defender takes place against the background of a thorough reconstruction of the events that have occurred. She presented the creators damn exciting that when observing its ups and downs, you almost forget about the result. Even if the sophisticated viewer manages to solve all the puzzles before they are revealed by the director, he will still enjoy the elegance of the action.
Lead actor
The demonstrated acting skills were also reflected in the reviews of the film “The Invisible Guest”. The screen duo of Mario Casas and Ana Wachener received a lot of praise, with most reviewers pointing out the superiority of the popular handsome actor. The choice of the leading actor for many filmmakers was a surprise that was bewildering. But the author’s decision as a result was justified by the successful use of its texture and image.
Minor characters harmoniously fit into the overall atmosphere of the tape, bringing a significant part of the color and adding tension to the story.
In general, you can recommend watching a movie, especially if you are a fan of the genre. In The Invisible Guest there is a bit from Fincher and Hitchcock, a fragment of The Pit, part of Suspicious Persons, and the crumb I Know What You Did Last Summer. In the absence of more worthy genre projects, viewing pleasure is guaranteed. An impressive timing of 106 minutes flies unnoticed.