A movie review of The Invitation. Rotten Tomatoes reviewers loved it! I thought it was decent, but have some gripes. I think in general, these ensemble suspense thrillers – where apparently only one dude is suspicious of the people acting funny around him – could be fixed by:

• Creating characters we actually care about.

• Not making the lone dude the only one suspicious of weird things going on.

• If you’re casting mostly unknowns, don’t cast a characters actor known to do creepy stuff or he’s automatically a suspect!

• Don’t do cheap computer "discovery" scenes where one of a few things happen:

• Character comes across computer with no password.

• Character comes across computer with no password and an important file he needs is the only one on the desktop – or better yet, already open.