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The producers of "The Sixth Sense" and the co-writer of "Batman Begins" team up to bring us "The Invisible," a film that explores three themes hell known as high school, the supernatural, and redemption through love.

Based on the Swedish film "Den Osynlige," I had high hopes for "The Invisible." The first part of the movie was great, but the last reel failed to live up to a very smart start.

I sat down with the cast and crew of "The Invisible" to find out more about life, death, and high school hell.

HELL KNOWN AS HIGH SCHOOL

We all experienced it, hell known as high school. But we're glad we all came out of it with our emotions unscathed. The three main characters of "The Invisible" reminded me of "Rebel Without a Cause," the quintessential film about teenage alienation. We have Nick who's like the James Dean Character, Pete is like Sal Mineo, and Annie is a darker, twisted Natalie Wood.

In "The Invisible," Justin Chatwin (the actor who played Tom Cruise's son in "The War of the Worlds") stars as Nick Powell. "He seemed to have it all," Chatwin says. "He's rich, intelligent, and he gets the girls." Yet Nick feels that he's invisible, metaphorically, to his high school classmates, and to his mom (played by Academy Award winner Marcia Gay Harden).

Nick's best friend, Pete (Chris Marquette) also feels invisible from everyone. "He spent most of his life living under the shadows of the more popular Nick," Chris says. But when Pete crosses the school's resident bully, Annie (a fine debut performance from Margarita Levieva), relationships get shattered, resulting in a near-fatal accident involving Nick.

Nick, trapped between life and death must solve his own crime, before time runs out.

SUPERNATURAL THRILLER

"The Invisible" tries hard to be a supernatural thriller. And that's the film's flaw. The producers want to duplicate the haunting, ethereal mood of "The Sixth Sense," but "The Invisible" fails to deliver.

Director David S. Goyer (writer-creator of the "Blade" series, and jumpstarted the Batman franchise) maintains that "The Invisible" is "really a metaphorical take on how we, as human beings, sometimes fail to see and hear the person right in front of us." And that's fine, but if you're going to make a movie that's being marketed as a supernatural thriller, you have to meet the expectations.

REDEMPTIVE LOVE STORY

Many fans will compare "The Invisible" to the much better "Ghost." I will not divulge the important twists and turns, but the film nearly copied the emotional

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