Invincible

Name: Invincible
Genre: Drama, War
Released: September 20, 2002
Duration: 133 min
Rating: 55
Cast: Jouko Ahola, Tim Roth

2002

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Fine Line Features | Release Date: September 20, 2002 | PG-13

Starring: Jouko Ahola, Tim Roth

Summary: The true story of a simple man who is transported from his humble village roots to the giddy excesses of the 1930s Berlin and finds himself becoming the new Samson to protect the Jewish people. (Fine Line Features)

Director: Werner Herzog

Genre(s): Drama, War

Rating: PG-13

Runtime: 133 min

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Roger Ebert

Watching Invincible was a singular experience for me, because it reminded me of the fundamental power that the cinema had for us when we were children. The film exercises the power that fable has for the believing. Read full review

Stephen Holden

If Invincible is soft at the center, its visual grandeur and mostly full-blooded performances make it gripping, for this eminent German director has pulled off the tricky feat of elevating a true story into a larger-than-life allegory. Read full review

J. R. Jones

Though Ahola's acting is unschooled, to say the least, Herzog shrewdly uses his blunt sincerity to counterpoint Roth's spectacularly icy performance. Read full review

Steven Rea

Invincible works, simply but provocatively, as a parable about the oppressed and the oppressors, victimhood and fanaticism. Read full review

Richard Cline

There are some realistic, scary themes at work here that make it worth a look. Read full review

Edward Guthmann

A strange but oddly memorable film. Read full review

New Times (L.A.) Jean Oppenheimer

The predominantly amateur cast is painful to watch, so stilted and unconvincing are the performances. Poor Roth has nobody to play against and flounders in trying to keep the ship upright. Herzog aims for a kind of operatic sweep that he fails to achieve. Read full review

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CharlieD.

Dec 3, 2005

Enthralling. Nothing phony here.

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