The Invasion Page #7

Synopsis: While returning to Earth, the space shuttle explodes and the fragments bring an alien virus that recodes the human DNA. In Washington, the psychiatrist Carol Bennell observes the modification of the behavior of one of her clients first, then in her former husband and finally in the population in general. Together with her friend Dr. Ben Driscoll the researcher Dr. Stephen Galeano, they discover that the extraterrestrial epidemic affects human beings while sleeping and that her son Ollie, who had chickenpox when he was a baby, is immune to the disease and may save mankind from the outbreak.
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Production: Warners Bros. Pictures
  1 win & 2 nominations.
 
IMDB:
5.9
Metacritic:
45
Rotten Tomatoes:
19%
PG-13
Year:
2007
99 min
$15,100,000
Website
1,344 Views


- Get down!

Oh, no.

Turn right, Carol.

Turn right! Now!

Get to the roof!

Let's go.

- Ollie, you okay?

- Yeah.

They're coming!

Move out! Set perimeter!

Run! Come on, you're almost there!

- Go, go, go! Go!

- Move!

Clear!

You're okay.

Scientists are reporting

that identifying the immunity gene...

... is the first step in creating

a cure to the pandemic.

Survivors are using every means

to spread the vaccine...

... to as many people as possible.

Food and water supplies...

Pockets of the immune began to grow

across the country...

... retaking control of major cities...

On the anniversary of

the space shuttle Patriot disaster...

... leading scientists convened

in Washington today...

... to update the president on the continued

efforts to eradicate the global pandemic.

- Dr. Galeano!

- Is this the final word?

- The virus, will it spread again?

- The situation's under control.

Inoculation centers throughout the globe

are experiencing success...

...in curing and immunizing

their populations.

Why was it so easy to cure?

The alien virus has

no real defense system.

Once we isolated the vaccine,

the result was inevitable.

How many people are still infected?

- We're unsure, but the number is shrinking.

- What about memory loss?

We believe that the way

the entity plugged itself into our brain...

...was so different

from how we're wired...

...that the mind interpreted the experience

as unconsciousness.

Which explains why the cured

have no recollection of recent events.

- They experienced it as though asleep.

- Does this mean it's over?

- Over?

- The alien virus.

Has it been eradicated?

Well, pick up a newspaper.

For better or worse, we're human again.

Ollie, hurry up. You're gonna be late.

- Where's Gene?

- Coming.

What did I tell you about that thing?

But I almost got it. Oh, no!

- You can have it back after school.

- All right.

Have a nice day. Love you.

I love you too.

- See you later.

- See you.

Eighty-three more deaths in Baghdad.

Is it ever gonna end?

In the right situation, we are all capable

of the most terrible crimes.

To imagine a world

where this was not so...

... where every crisis did not result

in new atrocities...

... where every newspaper

is not full of war and violence...

Well, this is to imagine a world where

human beings cease to be human.

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