El Hombre Sin Sombra (Hollow Man)

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Summary: Kevin Bacon goes psycho...
Review: When Hollow Man was released in theaters, it had been panned by the critics. So, I was a bit weary renting it. If I didn't like Kevin Bacon, I think I would've passed it up. I gave this movie 3 stars because of the great performance by Bacon and the awesome special effects. The plot, and the rest of the performances were all pretty bad. If you like horror movies with really good special effects and if you don't care much about the acting(aside from Bacon) and story, you might like this movie. When I first heard about this movie, I thought the story sounded interesting(a scientist goes slowly mad throughout the film, after volunteering himself to be turned invisible and eventually starts killing -- animals and people). Maybe they needed a rewrite. One thing I know is they needed to take Elizabeth Shue aside and tell her to get some acting lessons -- She turns in a very wooden performance. She had more heart in The Karate Kid. This film is definitely worth a look just for the amazing special effects made for the transformation from visible to invisible and back to visible again.

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Summary: Get the bon fire ready for this one!
Review: Now, lets start off by saying that Kevin Bacon hasn't made a good movie for twenty years. Second, lets say that a movie solely dependant upon good special effects for the most part turn out for the worst. This is one of those films. I could barely make it through the entire film. A pentagon experiment which aims to be able to succesfully transform a human into an "invisible" being goes terribly wrong. The top scientist (Bacon) volunteerd to be the first person to change invisible. Eventually the transformation is a success and Bacon begins to take advantage of his "invisible" situation. So, in retrospect, Bacon runs around raping women, killing his friends, and being a total jerk, until they eventually kill him. I think it would be better if this movie was kept "invisible".

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Summary: A Film That Truly Earns it's 1 Star
Review: I read many of the reviews on Hollow Man before renting it, but I stupidly thought the FX could make up for a really bad plot and acting...WRONG! The FX are good but your four dollars would be better spent re-renting Total Recall or even Starship Troopers. Kevin Bacon has never been worse, surprising after he was so good in Stir of Echoes, it's not so much his acting because he's only visable for the first half hour, but the dialogue is atrocious. Elizabeth Shue is one of the worst actresses ever, she just got lucky with Leaving Las Vegas (they could have cast a circus chimp and it would have got raves because of Nick Cage), but her true colors come through here. Besides the talentless cast, the plot is simply non-existent. Sebastian just decides to go crazy half way through the movie, OK?! If you are even considering buying this movie, please take your 20 Dollars and flush it down the toilet right now. You'll get more satisfaction from watching it spiral down the bowl than you will from watching this trash.

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Summary: Horrible Trash
Review: When I saw the preview to this movie I was blown away by the special effects and couldn't wait to see the picture. Little did I realize I had fallen into the typical hollywood trap thats used to lure audiences to bad, bad movies. Just like the Phantom Menace the film starts out with ground breaking special effects that lead to a dense script with foolish, laughable characters. Kevin Bacon's character is invisble but still manages to get his butt kicked by Eliizebeth Shoe who, seems to be forever typecast in dumb-blond, airhead roles for the rest of her life. Forget buying this movie it isn't even worh a rental.

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Summary: Are they serious???????????
Review: Are we supposed to take Kevin Bacon's character seriously? Here we have a man who's endowed with such genius that he works for the Federal Government in top secret projects and the only thing the twit can think of doing is getting off sexually, one way or another. The character of Sebastian is one dimensional, at best and to boot, he's positively loathsome. His descent from scientist to homicidal maniac is so abrupt that you are left to wonder if you nodded off at some point and missed a chunk of the character's development. But how could you have missed anything when there is hardly any character to speak of and the development was as methodical and deliberate as flicking on a light switch. No amount of impressive special effects can save this dog of a movie. Elizabeth Shue and Josh Brolin turn in the pedestrian performances of their careers and Kevin Bacon's hammy, over the top bad boy incarnation grew tiresome ten minutes into the movie. Incidentally, I never knew that being invisible was synonymous with being invincible. Sebastian turned into the indestructible Michael Myers with surprising ease. Laughable through and through. Bad acting, silly plot, predictable screenplay but great special effects. In other words, typical of the Hollywood pablum factory.

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Summary: Incredible Special effects, but turns stupid.
Review: A Brilliant scientist Kevin Bacon discovered a way to bring people back form invisibility. So Animals can disappear, and people have to use thermal glasses to see them. Then they get brought back to there regular normal phase. And Then Kevin Bacon decides he wants to try it. Basically Hollow Man is an updated version of The Invisible Man. Hollow Man was called "I Know What You Did In the Lab this Summer" And that is pretty on the dot. Elizabeth Shue plays Kevin Bacons former love, and colleague. Josh Brolin plays Shues current love and colleague. I will have to say that Hollow Man is a little wittier then the completely routine slasher films such as Urban Legends: Final Cut. I'm not sure if it should have been a slasher film, but it turned out to be. Bacon basically locks everyone in the lab and starts stalking in a high gore fashion, you know the usual impaling and slicing and dicing. To Be honest, I don't it was intended to be a slasher film, but it turns out to be one. It has some good suspense and is a great deal Scarier than Urban Legends: Final Cut, but that isn't saying much though, since that movie WAS NOT Scary!!. Hollow Man is a visual feast, and has some much needed wit to it. The ones being stalked are a little smarter than the 'stupid blond running from a mad slasher, even though he is catching up to her, and he is walking' but still make the same stupid mistakes. Kevin Bacon gets to play a bad guy, instead of a good guy. I sincerely think he should stick to the good guys. It isn't he is bad, it is just a waste of his time., and talent. Hollywood still hasn't figured out that nothing is scarier than everything. That probably doesn't make since so here is an example 'The Blair Witch Project' was 5 times scarier than Hollow Man and Hollow Man is 3 times scarier than Urban Legend 2. The Blair Witch had no killer, no stalker no witch. The sense on the witch was scarier. And Urban Legend 2 had the stalker, insulting gore, and bad acting. Since Hollow Man was gory it wasn't to scary, but it did get a better review from me because there were times you couldn't see anything you only could sense the trouble, and that is a good thing.

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Summary: Liked it! Nice fun, entertaining thriller.
Review: This may not be the most intelligent movie you ever saw but you may find yourself liking it never-the-less. This is not just a cheezy teen thriller, but a thriller that people of many ages will enjoy. The effects were great and the actors and the action kept my attention glued to the screen throughout the entire movie. If you're in the mood for a fun thriller movie on a Friday or Saturday night, this is a good choice.

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Summary: Intriuging Premise Wasted
Review: Paul Verhoven could have made a much better movie out of this material. This time he seems to sabotage his own movie about half an hour in. Sure the SFX are good, but they serve the same old formula. That being said, Kevin Bacon turns in his usually good performance. In this film he's acting better than Verhoven is directing. "Stir of Echoes" is much more effective.

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Summary: Not a Bad Movie
Review: This isn't the greatest movie ever made but it isn't bad. The effects are awesome. The plot is a bit shallow and there are no surprises but the movie is entertaining just the same. I can think of worst ways to spend an hour and a half.

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Summary: Wow that was bad
Review: Despite amazing special effects this is one horible movie. The acting is completely ridiculous and the plot that started off alright, quickly became another one for the trash can.