Show r Catch sight of an invisible man if you can can Andrew Wade Staff Writer NICK Halloway Chevy Chase hase is not exactly what you would call a workaholic He is a stock analyst in San Francisco who who drinks too much but still has hasa a charming quality about him That is as long as you youcan youcan can see him One day Nick characteristically characteristically characteristically charac charac- over hung-over from the previous night is late for fora a presentation at Magna- Magna Research Laboratories But instead of attending the lecture he seeks refuge in an executive sauna where he promptly falls asleep When he awakens he h-e discovers his life has changed inexorably Nick Halloway has become T invisible Through a deus dens ex machina Nick and nd at least part of t the e building he is in are invisible This is some surprise to Nick as well as th the government agency assembled to mop up p the mess The agency lead by the maniacal David Jenkins Sam Neill now has designs designs' on Nick and intends intend to either apprehend or terminate him Director John Carpenter whose last effort They Live had no life sh should uld be proud of what he has done here By capitalizing on the inspiration inspiration inspiration tion provided provid d by HF Saints Saint's novel Memoirs o of of-an of f an Invisible Man Carpenter arpen ter has rejuvenated the hackneyed plot device of invisibility This most recent addition to his repertoire is reminiscent of one of his earlier wor works s Both films are romantic science fiction adventure adventure adventure ad ad- venture films Of course this success would be impossible without talent like Chase In the leading leading leading lead lead- ing role Chase does everything everything everything every every- thing in his power to prevent himself from mugging for the camera He is successful giving a convincing subtle and even ven romantic mance That is not notto to say the film is without humor quite the contrary The There e. e are many riotous moments in Memoirs of an Invisible Man Mart but none of lof them posed by Ne Neill's ll's Jenkins who is played as a menacing and obsessive covert operative Or even Daryl Hannah as Nicks Nick's girlfriend Alice Monroe a documentary filmmaker er Hannah is able to suffuse her character with dimension and vitality otherwise she would serve as nothing more than a continuous reaction shot shot- to the effects And lest we not forget invisibility invisibility invisibility in in- visibility would not be possible possible possible pos pos- sible without ILM whose substantially talented team created the effects for Star Wars ET BT and the hit of 1991 Terminator II Memoirs of an Invisible Man should be seen pun intended intended in in- ten tended ed I 1 y i J a r r cIt 4 J I Ii i c j l G M Mn n The invisible man Chevy Chase has lo lost st his self identity in Memoirs of an Invisible Man t |