We always did find invisibility thrillers resistible stuff, and the lost art of the comedy-thriller is hardly revived by this thin script, hopefully written in invisible ink. Not fast enough, tight enough, or good enough, the slack job finds director John Carpenter struggling outside his usual horror genre. Chevy Chase is the lazy businessman who finds he has to move faster than for years when a lab accident renders him not only invisible, but the target for a nest of rogue CIA agents led by Sam Neill. Lots of tedious chat between Chase and girlfriend Daryl Hannah follows, punctuated by special effects that are remarkably clumsy by modern standards and seem not to have moved on much since Claude Rains' day nearly 60 years earlier. Neill would make a good villain with better material, but Chase is given little opportunity for his famous wisecracks, and can't seem to make up his mind here whether he wants to be Bob Hope or Cary Grant.

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