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Summary: A hollow storyline
Review: This movie is unlike anything that Paul Verhoeven has made yet. It just about has nothing in common with any of his other movie except for two things: the violence and the nudity. That is how you can tell a Verhoeven movie from any other director's movies is the shocking and in a way artistic way of showing violence. Anyone can do nudity, but anyway back to the movie. The movie has some to the most beautiful special effects around. One scene in particular involves a gorilla that they are making invisible. It isn't like the old movies where if they turn something invisible they just slowly fade out, here we see each individual body part on the gorilla disappear. The skin, the limbs, the internal organs, veins, everthing. Then later we actually see the Kevin Bacon turn invisible. These are all good but the story is something that they could have worked on.The story for Hollow Man is pretty hollow in itself. It is basically the same old tired story of how the invisible man becomes this invisible killer and he wreaks havoc. The story could have been done better with a lot more ideas about what a man could do once he becomes invisible.
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Summary: Hollow Movie
Review: The question that comes to mind here is: Why bother? The storyline offers nothing really new. Scientist with no ethics invents a drug that makes creatures invisible (and thinks he has another to reverse the process). He tries it out on himself (why?), becomes invisible, then goes berserk. In the end, he is killed several times, but keeps reappearing to the point of ridiculousness (and haven't we all seen that one a few times before?) in true superhuman fashion. Presumably gets done in at last (but who knows for sure?). Kevin Bacon isn't bad as the mad scientist, and the special effects are truly special, but the story is predictable and lame from beginning to end. There really is no reason to see, much less own, this unless you have a compulsion about maintaining your complete collection of "invisible man" flicks.
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Summary: Pretty Good To Have "Kevin Bacon" In It!
Review: Im not a big fan of Kevin Bacons, but when I say the preview, I just had to go see it. And I was in for a big suprise: DONT SEE IT IN THEATERS - BUT BUY IT ON DVD! This film has absolutely some of the best special effects EVER, (some even outbeating the incredible "THE MATRIX". Kevin Bacon (A Few Good Men, Stir Of Echoes) stars a Sabastian Cane, a brilliant, but kind of crazy scientist, who is close to finding out if they can make someone invisible and then bring them back to the visible world. When the experiment on the animals works, Sabastian decides he wants to be the first human to try the invisibility move. As the experiment works for him, and turns him invisible. Now they must bring him back to the visible world, which doesnt work, and without orders from The Pentagon they did the human testing, and when they realize they cant bring him back, they must tell the Pentagon their mistake. Sabastian knows it will destroy his career, and possibly him, he goes to take out the evidence that proves hes invisible: everyone who knew about the project.
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Summary: good movie but terrible ending
Review: i liked the move but the ending was terrible. on a R rated thriller usaully there is one survivor but on this one there is two survivors. the lady and the jerk. the guy could have killed him and then the woman would have cried and then kill the invisible man. it ended terribally. but good action. cool special effects, great story, interesting but the ending is poor
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Summary: Hollow Man is the best Sci-Fi thriller of 2000!
Review: HOLLOW MAN takes you into the world of Sebastian Caine (Kevin Bacon), a scientist undergoing the breakthrough of invisibility. After learning that process, he then finds the antidote for re-visualizing. Then after undergoing the procedure, Caine tests the process on himself and then finds his antidote doesn't work on humans. Now with him invisible, and no way to bring him back, Caine tries to stop his scientist-team from having the government terminate the project. Sebastian then must kill all of his co-workers in order to keep locked behind his invisible, hollow skull, his deadly secret. MY REVIEW: "Average customer rating is 2 1/2 stars??? What the heck is wrong with you people. This movie is awesome! It has some of the best effects ever created! The story is great, the action rocks, and it's REALLY scary! The acting is great, the directing is great and the f/x are spontanious! This movie is excellent- the best sci-fi thriller of 2000! I mean, it was nominated for BEST VISUAL EFFECTS at the Academy Awards! "Gladiator" didn't have the BEST VISUAL EFFECTS though, HOLLOW MAN had the best! And PERFECT STORM was nominated for the BIG WAVES! What a joke! CAST AWAY had those same awesome waves in a big storm, but that movie wasn't nominated! HOLLOW MAN IS A HORRIFYING, ACTION THRILLER- ONE OF THE COOLEST FILMS OF 2000!"- MJV & the Movies.
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Summary: Yeaa Right...
Review: pittiful acting + lousy screen play + overwhelming VIFX = Hollowman The only reason this gets 1 stars from me is because of the special effects which I appreciate as very ambitious (not to mention you have to give atleast one). Other than that this movie should of never been made. I find it very hard to believe a egotistical Porche driving genius doctor can't find a girlfriend in Washington D.C. But of couse he can't and thus Hollowman was born. This movie has all the tell tale traits of a director who is overwhelmed with tecnology and basically issued a blank check to ILM. Ofcouse Paul Verhoven is no novice director and should of taken control of this mess or conveniently lost all of the footage and written the whole mess off. Unfortunatly he didn't and now his brilliant career will be forever tarnished. My advice to viewers would be to curl up and watch this DVD only if you are stuck in a broken elevator for a long period of time. Otherwise don't waste your time or money supporting this junk.
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Summary: I USUALLY DON'T LIKE FILMS LIKE THIS BUT...
Review: I USUALLY DON'T LIKE FILMS LIKE THIS BUT THIS IS THE EXCEPTION. I THOUGHT THE CAST OF THIS MOVIE ESPECIALLY KEVIN BACON AND ELIZABETH SHUE WERE FANTASTIC. THE SPECIAL EFFECTS WERE A1. HOLLOW MAN TAKES THE STORY OF THE INVISIBLE MAN AND BRINGS IT UP TO TODAYS STANDARDS. KEVIN BACON PLAYS THE PSYCHO DOCTOR WHO MAKES HIMSELF INVISIBLE. AT FIRST HE REALLY ENJOYS BEING THIS WAY, BUT AS TIME GOES ON AND HE CAN'T BRING HIMSELF BACK TO WHAT HE ONCE WAS THE MADNESS OVER TAKES HIM AND HE GOES AFTER EVERYONE WHO WORKS ON THE PROJECT WITH HIM. IT'S REALLY REALLY GOOD AND KEEPS YOU GOING FROM THE BEGINNING TO THE VERY END. WHICH IS GREAT ALSO. GOTTA GET THIS ONE.
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Summary: AAARRGGH! GET IT AWAY!
Review: I wish I could give this two-hour pain parade no stars, but I'll settle for the lowest rating available to me. This movie just -how to word it correctly- it just sucks. Ten minutes into it, I was unsuccessfully trying to slit my wrists with my soft drink straw. I don't even know where to begin condemning it. Okay, first off, the acting is really lousy. I mean, the Carrot Top movie had more accomplished actors than this disgrace. Second,the screenplay was at about the writing level of a second grader. The movie lacked all the good stuff, like character development, emotional resonance, tension, and intelligence. Instead, we were left with the standard Hollywood sex and gore, and plenty of it! This movie had more unnecessary blood and guts than all the previous Paul Verhoven movies put together. It was obscene. Speakng of which, there were like fifty scenes of the invisible man molesting his female victims. It was disgusting. And no, I don't needto see Kevin Bacon's nether regions that often, thank you very much. Some movies are described as bloody car wrecks. "The Hollow Man" is the celluloid equivilent of the Chernobyl disaster. I mean, Paul screwed up big time with "Starship Troopers" and "Showgirls", but at least they were the fun kind of bad. This movie, however, doesn't merely stink. It shouldn't be screened near open flame. If you want more intelligent viewing, try staring at your shoe for two hours. It'll be just as entertaining.
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Summary: NOT WORTH THE CELLULOID
Review: Where do I begin to explain what is wrong with this film? The only decent part is Josh Brolin. Kevin Bacon has never done much for me, and he is positively diabolical and egotistical in this role. He does spend most of the time in this film as an invisible man, which is good, but overall the concept of making a man invisible and his going crazy while invisible is not very interesting. Elisabeth Shue has become a progressively worse actress since her Oscar nominated performance in Leaving Las Vegas. It is as though she thinks if she acts powerful and overly sexual she will be a better actress, but it all seems forced and very contrived.
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Summary: Special FX make up for shallow plot
Review: "Hollow Man" is a slick and entertaining film, but the plot is incredibly shallow and the characters are all stereotyped. The performances are decent, but overblown. The special effects are amazing. See this film for the special effects. You won't get much more out of it.
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