In “The Invasion,” it’s not Nicole Kidman’s body that seems to have been snatched. It’s her face.
Playing a heroic psychiatrist in this sci-fi thriller remake, she’s nearly the last person in the greater Washington-Baltimore area not to have been taken over by a weird live virus from outer space that turns everyone infected by it into an expressionless automaton of groupthink. And yet ironically, the actress playing protagonist Carol Bennell has the picture’s most supernaturally immobilized expression.
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