The Invitation (2003)
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Roland has invited his closest friends over to his island for dinner. However the food comes prepared with a deadly poison. Roland’s offer is that the guests confess their sins in return for the antidote. Tell the truth, you’ll live. Fight it, you’ll die. Is this the beginning of a purification process or just a deranged psychopath?
Overall: Henriksen does his usual awesome job acting but sadly, no one else came to the ballpark to play. The idea is fairly tremendous and the film had a ton of potential. By the end I was disappointed in the acting of the other people and how confusing it was to find out exactly what their sins were. At times, the sins were only in flashback visuals but never repeated in words. What I may think is a nice bit of eroticism and sensuality looks to be hinting towards coerced sex. Not exactly sure but I think I sort of kind of got it…or did I? Anyway, one major problem is that Henriksen telegraphs what he’s doing do the people too early and the poison acts too fast to make the film believable. The biggest problem is trying to convince the viewer that the 6 friends wouldn’t just run over and start beating on Henriksen the moment he told them the truth. In addition, there were times where the dialogue was just lacking. You expected characters to say something or follow-up with something and they don’t. Dialogue wasn’t very good but the plot had so much potential. Comparison: Serpent and the Rainbow meets April Fool’s Day |
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