Wow! Such a good movie.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

The joyful confection is coated in a sparkly gloss, bright enough to gleam from the darkest, most cynical corners.

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

Don't read the plot written by these d!cks. It is better to go into this movie NOT knowing the plot. The Hidden is a wonderfully made sci fi action movie. It contains an excellent plot involving possession and mass murdering which is a concept I love. The action is bloody and great and a lot of people die. Characterization and acting was good too. And if you care about production value then you're a retard. Highly recommended.

Apparently impressed with movies like ALIEN and THE TERMINATOR, the producers of THE HIDDEN hit upon the novel notion of having an alien parasite turn ordinary humans into unstoppable killing machines. (I'm not going to go into my usual screed about ALIEN's origins, nor those of THE TERMINATOR; suffice it to say that BOTH "borrowed liberally" from movies that had come before.) One of the more interesting aspects (so to speak) of the Critter in THE HIDDEN is that it gets in touch with its Feminine Side, giving cache to the term "transgender." (It helps a great deal that it TRANSforms into Claudia Christian...) Kyle McLachlan is good as the Starman in pursuit of The Hidden One, and the movie overall is light but Entertaining.

Not even five minutes pass before a man in a wheelchair is run over for laughs and the next hour or so becomes an unhinged series of violent comedic escapades. An odd FBI agent played by Kyle MacLachlan teams up with a detective played with cheesy earnestness by Michael Nouri, who are after an alien who takes over the human bodies he invades - and goes on murder, theft and mayhem causing rampages. This is a B movie and proud of it and the sight of a scantily clad alien controlled stripper who's heavily armed and a geezer with a boom box who's out of control, are a few highlights in this absurd film. Jack Sholder directs with energy to spare and it's a shame his big screen career sputtered out after his '89 film Renegades and spent the next two decades directing TV movies - before briefly resurfacing in studio filmmaking by directing some of the reshoots for the doomed big budget fiasco Supernova.

Hugely enjoyable film predating MIB by 10 years and with a similar theme.However this film is deeper - 'The Hidden' at one level is just a body hoping alien but at another the alien possession is symbolic of our continuing lust for more and better things - plus the urge to do just as we want when we want that probably resides in most of us.Of course we do our best to keep these urges 'hidden' away but like the alien they sometimes claw their way to the surface.Perhaps a slight weak point is when we discover that the alien is an Altairan (like something out of a 50's SciFi film). In this respect - with reference to what 'The Hidden' really represents - sometimes it's better not to know!