Ian’s review published on Letterboxd:
52/100
As much as I really want to fall in love with a John Carpenter film post-1990, it simply has not happened yet. He was so electric and genuine behind the camera for basically 12 years straight and then he kind of lost the stuff. I don’t hate any film he’s made and he’s obviously one of the greats for half of his filmography as it is, but Memoirs of an Invisible Man is another mediocre entry that doesn’t do anything special like it could.
I don’t actually know what I was expecting from the film, but once it was over I left with the sense that it was nothing new. It doesn’t totally give us any new angles to the whole “invisible man” idea. Remember the film from 2020 and how great that was because it was new and refreshing. This just has us the same old story that never adds new “mythology” or nothing. Just not enough here to get me above the three star mark. Chevy Chase is fine; I don’t want to say miscast, just not enough. John Carpenter’s Memoirs of an Invisible Man is a fine film, with fine writing, and fine performances. Nothing good and nothing bad.
