Meanwhile, the killer moves from one host body to another, taking a guided tour of Earth life-forms (his hosts include a dog and a stripper). Shifting genres almost as often as its villain changes bodies, it's at once an enormously effective thriller, a smart exercise in science fiction, an exciting action movie, and a kinetic dark comedy. As he gradually begins to believe his story, his problem is to deal with his fellow cops, who don't believe in spacemen. The Hidden is a textbook example of how a B-movie can transcend its origins and budgetary constraints through craft, imagination, and all-around resourcefulness.
MacLachlan plays his alien with a certain strange reserve, as if he's trying the controls very lightly, afraid of going into a spin.Īt first, Nouri naturally assumes this FBI guy is simply another weirdo. Jeff Bridges had a similar challenge in " Starman," in which he played an alien who cloned a human body and then tried to find his way around in it. It also has a sense of humor, and some subtle acting by MacLachlan, whose assignment is to play a character who always is just a beat out of step. Its narrative is only hampered by a few technical.
"The Hidden" takes this situation and makes a surprisingly effective film out of it, a sleeper that talks like a thriller and walks like a thriller, but has more brains than the average thriller. Hidden works incredibly well with small scale, dark atmosphere and mental trial instead of ordinary gorefest. "Are we talking spaceman here?" Nouri asks, and we are. Both the killer and the so-called FBI agent are from another planet. An exceptionally compelling bilingual drama set in Wales (and with English subtitles), Hidden, about a police team’s determined pursuit of justice, couldn’t. Nouri discovers the key to this mystery about half an hour after we've figured it out for ourselves.