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Summary: One of the best I have seen in a while.......
Review: I... must say I really enjoyed this movie. Of course I always enjoy watching Kevin Bacon but I thought the movie was excellent. It seems that many have not enjoyed it. Think about what you could do if you were invisible. Wow what fun that would be and then think about not being able to come back. I think ANYBODY would go mad!!! A few days of it would be OK then I would start to go crazy also!!! I am going to purchase it now. So I can enjoy it again!!!
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Summary: Thrilling -- Kevin's Darkest Role Ever!
Review: If you thought a pedophile, Stalinesque security guard named Nokes was dirty and cruel, well, here Kevin Bacon has gone all the way to cold, power-hungry evil menace. He sure seems to be liking these new antagonist roles...Sebastian Caine is Bacon's character and he is the typical mad scientist: presumptuous, self-confident and willing to take illegal risks. But when his invisibility potions don't work quite right, Caine begins to succumb to his dark passions and emotions. He has the power of invisibility and begins to abuse it with horrific results. While not the best sci-fi horror film around, it's still good as a reminder that POWER CORRUPTS. It is possible that Kevin Bacon, quite the libertarian, is playing these dark authoritarian and terrorist roles to send a sarcastic moral message to society: don't trade away your freedom for power!
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Summary: Fun Special Effects And That's About It.
Review: Hollow Man is no different than those other invisible man movies where the scientist goes mad, the only thing that makes this one different is the great effects.... Instead from Paul Verhoeven we get an invisible man that's ...[aroused]... As a man I can't say I didn't enjoy those scenes "lol" but you would think a movie with such great effects and a good cast would have a better script. Elisabeth Shue is beautiful, there's no doubt about it, ...she's hard to take serious as a scientist. Kevin Bacon makes a taunting and chilling invisible man but just like Shue he's not really believable as the brainy type. In fact it's only Josh Brolin and Kim Dickens that are the only ones who look like they belong there. ... Hollow Man is a gory B-Movie with fun special effects and although I have mixed feelings for it, I recommend it because it's still mildly entertaining. Still it could have been much, much more though.
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Summary: Great movie!
Review: Paul Vehoven's films (Robocop,Total Recall, Basic Instinct and Starship Troopers) have always aptly blended an impressive mix of sexual overtones and ultra-violence, and Hollw Man is one of his best films, with great SFX, excellent action and trademark Verhoven nudity. Unlike his films in the 80s and early 90s, Hollow Man is much more stylish and inventive. Kevin Bacon is great as the crazy genius who manages to turn himself invisible, and the naughty things he gets up to are fun. Elizabeth Shue is the only real let-down in this film (running around in a very tight shirt) but she dosn't do any real damage. Sure it's cheesy and silly, and the film's graphic elements may not sit well with some viewers but what did you expect? Great fun in a cheesy B-movie kind of way.
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Summary: Nothing horrible, but it's still wasted potential.
Review: Kevin Bacon is the scientist who turns himself invisible and slowly grows insane. Initially intriguing thriller from Paul Verhoeven begins very well, with some of the best special effects I've ever seen, but eventually comes loose when the movie turns into a disturbing and unbelievable slasher. It's all still watchable, if only for the premise and effects. Bacon is terrific (as usual) as the titular character.
** 1/2 out of *****
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Summary: Amazing special effects try to mask lack of script
Review: Being an ardent fan of science fiction, I had hoped that Hollow Man would be decent. In its special effects, I was not disappointed. The art of computer generated images [CGI] is advancing rapidly. The line between what is real and what is a computer graphic is becoming quite blurred, and I am in awe of this technology. Some things in life remain the same, however, and the need for a good, coherent storyline is one of them. Hollow Man lacks this, and, as a result, the movie is just so-so. Much of the movie takes place in a secret government lab deep below the surface of Washington, DC. There, a team of scientists, led by Sebastian Caine [Kevin Bacon] has almost perfected a process which renders people and other mammals invisible. Caine convinces two other workers, Linda and Matthew [Elizabeth Shue and Josh Brolin], to proceed with a test on a human being, namely Caine himself. The Pentagon doesn't know about this, but the trio doesn't tell this to the rest of the crew. The experiment proceeds. Caine becomes invisible, but the antidote fails. The group must then figure out what went wrong so that they can make Caine visible again. As time drags on, Caine, a volatile, egocentric guy even before the experoment, becomes increasingly unstable. Very bad things begin to occur. The people who made Hollow Man do not seem to have the imagination to explore the subject of becoming invisible very far. That's a shame, because the possibilities are virtually endless. What's worse, they don't have much feel for either drama or comedy. It's always dangerous when filmmakers take shallow ideas and get serious about them. In this case, Caine was once Linda's lover, but she wisely dumped him. Now Matthew is her lover, but she doesn't want Caine to find out, even though the three spend about eighteen hours a day working together. How interesting or original is that for a plot idea? In a place where some mammals are invisible and others aren't, there are lots of setups for comedy. Hollow Man makes use of none of them. So short on ideas were director Paul Verhoeven and his crew that the movie turns into a slasher flick for no good reason other than that Caine seems to be having a bad week. The CGI effects truly are wondrous, and they make the movie worth watching, at least for technophiles. The ways in which we see Caine are ingenious. The scene in which he turns invisible is amazing. One area of the movie's script truly annoyed me. Every main character is either a scientist or a doctor, hand picked for their genius and intelligence. Just consider the scope of their project. Yet most of them are rarely able to utter a complete sentence. Much worse, none of them can say more than a dozen words without using a four-letter word. As an ardent supporter of freedom of speech, I do not note this out of any moral sense. I note it because it is utterly implausible that such bright and educated people could express themselves only in vulgar and unoriginal ways. Is this the only way Hollywood can find to let teenagers, who are the bulk of the audience today, relate to such characters? If so, the intelligence of young people is being vastly underrated.
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Summary: Not bad, Not good either...
Review: Okay, I rented this movie because I'm a major sci-fi horror fan, and about five minutes into the movie I was ready to burn the thing! It's awful! FXs are good, and that's the only thing that's good. Bacon's performance is terrible; the plot is dry, old, over-done, and WAY too predictable! This makes its way to number 3 on my top ten WORST films list, and it's BAD! The acting is bad, the story is bad, the usage of the "F" word makes even the roughest of sailors want to keel over dead, and the gratuities nudity is disgusting! DO NOT BUY OR RENT! And if you own it, BURN IT! This is simply a good B movie gone bad F- movi!
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Summary: OK soso cheesy i think
Review: Well all i got to say about this movie is so so i didnt like it as much as i thought I would the ending was very cool though.
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Summary: A fitting title...
Review: I wonder if the writers realize that Bacon's character's invisibility means that light should pass directly through him
as if he weren't there, not stopping along the way to be projected onto his invisible retinas, and not feeding his invisible brain with any vision information, thus rendering him blind.
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Summary: Could have been so much better...
Review: The Hollow Man has a great premise but fails to do anything with it. Kevin Bacon is a research scientist for the government who has discovered how to make himself invisible. This movie could have focused a lot on what Bacon does when he is invisible. Instead he gets out for one night, but spends most of his time in the lab. Also, since Bacon is invisible most of the time, we just hear is voice. For all we know, that isn't even him when he is wearing a mask. The final fight in the lab is pretty exciting, but also pretty predictable. This movie would have been better if it had been set outside of the lab.
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