In Invincible, you have what could've been a classic tale of Good Vs. Evil but that would've required something more than a script probably written in a single night. Here's what the TBS website has to say about the movie (it was made for cable):
Legend tells of a group of dark angels, known as Shadowmen, who have walked the earth since time began. They have preyed on mankind throughout eternity; from the first blood shed in vain through broken treaties, tyrannical oppression, even world wars, they have been involved in every act of hate. But there is a price they pay for free reign over the world: eternal imprisonment. The world is their jail.
After millennia on earth, their sole desire is escape. But there is only one way out for them--the total destruction of our world. Guided by their leader, Slate, a dark angel so powerful that all others yield to him, they have tempted world leaders into poisoning the environment, pursuing ethnic cleansing, and even to the brink of global thermonuclear war, all in an attempt to end their captivity.
But a greater threat now exists. Slate has located one half of a stone tablet, an ancient relic of terrible power. With a complete tablet the Shadowmen could create an energy vortex with the force of 10,000 suns, shattering the world and freeing them from their bondage.
The only thing standing between them and the end of all life on Earth are four warriors, selected before birth to fight in defense of the world. Trained by Os, once a Shadowman himself and the guardian of the tablet's other half, these four warriors are the best and only hope of humanity.
Now is the time when legends live. The war is only just beginning.

Picture: The picture was presented in 1.78: 1 widescreen and looked quite good. There were a few moments of minor problems but overall, they were the exception, not the rule. The special effects looked pretty cheesy though.

Sound: The audio tracks gave a choice of 5.1 or 2.0 Dolby English and 2.0 Dolby Spanish. The 5.1 track was the best but it was far from what I'd have expected out of a recently made movie (except that this was made for cable).

Extras: None

Final Thoughts: The show seemed like it was made as a pilot episode and even had Mel Gibson and Jet Li as executive producers. The results confirm my suspicions that executive producers don't really do much other than lend their names to shows. In the movie, Billy Zane's character, Os, is the badguy_turned_good, who leads the four humans into the fight against the forces of evil. That they were all stereotypical characters supports my conclusion about how quickly the screenplay must've been written. I'm willing to bet that the writers (it's credited with 5 of them) must've spent a lot of money on Chinese food since the dialogue resembled a series of fortune cookies, loosely strung together. As far as the fight scenes, it was apparent that there was no real central idea to them since the show had to rely so heavily on MTV style editing to make it look passingly hip. In an action movie designed around fighting and psycho-babble, having both elements so weak is a sure-fire way to make a stinker.

I'd spend time discussing the many ways the plot (cough) was flawed or otherwise inconsistent but that would be overkill. I've seen better rip-offs of The Matrix and every other movie this one stole from. It's easy to see why the director is pretty firmly entrenched in making television episodes. From Billy's bad wig at the beginning to a plot that centered around an unnecessary showdown (all the protagonists had to do was keep the bad guys from getting their half of the book for a week and the cataclysmic event would've been avoided), this was a movie to avoid at half the price (MSRP is $29.99).