By day, 28-year old Griff (Ryan Kwanten, TV's TRUE BLOOD) is a timid shipping liaison mercilessly bullied by popular co-worker Tony (Toby Schmitz); by night, however, he is a rubber-suited crime fighter patrolling his neighborhood (and usually terrifying his neighbors more than the perceived threat). When wanted posters with his masked superhero likeness (and a mock-up mannequin) are posted around the neighborhood, his older brother Tim (Patrick Brammall) suspects that Griff is indulging in his fantasy world again (Tim got Griff his new job after he was bullied at the old one and Griff is reluctant to tell him that things are repeating themselves). Griff's boss Gary (David Webb, SUPERMAN RETURNS) unhelpfully advises Griff that he is making himself a target of abuse and should try to be invisible by acting normal; of course, Griff takes the invisible part literally and starts working on an invisibility suit. When Tim's klutzy girlfriend Melody (Maeve Dermody, BLACK WATER) - an experimentalist who has tried several times unsuccessfully to walk through walls, with resulting head trauma - discovers Griff's secret, she wants to help him design his invisibility suit and become his sidekick in fighting crime. Meanwhile, at work, Griff has been sneaking into the building at night to engineer a series of high-tech pranks to get back at Tony, but the security cameras reveal that he is not as invisible as he thinks he is and he gets fired (not to mention, beaten brutally by Tony and a thug). Tim, frustrated about losing his girl to Griff (and Griff losing yet another job), is ready to give up on his younger brother when he discovers that Melody is feeding into Griff's superhero delusions. When Griff overhears an argument between Tim and Melody, his fantasy world literally crumbles away and he tries to become normal (with Tim as his corny model); but can Melody convince Griff that he is indeed special and meant for extraordinary things.

The feature debut of writer/director Leon Ford (although he has directed three short films and has about fifteen years of acting credits under his belt), GRIFF THE INVISIBLE manages to balance the somewhat dark mixture of comedy and drama, but the ending is a bit muddled; not knowing whether to choose reality or escapism, and being unable to find that balance between the characters' needs to entertain some fantasy while living in the real world. The scene with Griff and his boss touches upon the bullying aspect, with Griff being blamed for sticking out (apparently in the wrong way, as Tony makes a show of himself without official repercussions) rather than blending in, and advised that he can eventually become normal by faking it (Gary makes the analogy that by speaking with an American accent, he'll eventually become an American); but Melody's treatment of Griff seems less delusional on her part (even though it energizes her to focus her experiments with the invisibility suit) and even a little bit cruel (especially when we are shown her reactions to Griff's attempts to be normal in front of her family, which mirror her reactions to Tim's attempts to charm her parents). It may be the fault of underdeveloped characters and/or themes, or the pressure to keep things light (the PG-13 rating comes from some language and violence, including Griff's imagined extreme attack on Tony, and Griff's own bloody beating), casting Griff as a dreamer rather than a basket case. For the most part, it is an enjoyable flick, due to the sympathetic lead performances of Kwanten, Dermody, and Brammal (as well as Marshall Napier [BABE] and Heather Mitchell [ROGUE] as Melody's parents, who are both given short scenes that lend their previously flat characters unexpected depth).