Review of Body Snatchers (1993) by Brent G — 04 Jun 2013

Out of all the versions of Jack Finney's 'Invasion of The Body Snatchers' book this one is the most fun and action-packed of them all.

The pacing is a very fast pace which shifts the viewer into high gear from then on out.

Everything is thrown at you of what you'd come to expect at this point from the 1st 2 movies.

There's less gore and scares and more grossness and creepy atmosphere.

But the movie is still really fun.

Instead of the city and downtown suburbia setting the pods take over a military base and it gets worse as each moment passes for these people.

The main family is actually pretty likeable just like Sutherland and his friends and McCarthy's.

A lot of the time certain parts are very painful to watch because one by one a new victim is taken over by the cloning process and you feel bad that they got caught.

The filmmakers did a lot of surprises I might add that really spiced things up even if they weren't all happy-go-lucky.

But the thing I am most thankful for in this second remake is that it actually had a conclusion, the ending was executed better here than the previous movies.

The reason is because something actually got resolved and didn't end on a sour note.

Of course this second remake still retained a lot of points from the old movies and kept them fresh.

All 3 versions of the story are really well conceived and didn't resort to the traditional area that a lot of remakes suffer from.

Congratulations to the filmmakers for making 3 separate films by making the same sci-fi/horror tale just as interesting and scary.