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Summary: Good try, but I'd rather it was an erotic thriller
Review: Hollow Man was on its way to being a good, albeit trashy, science fiction thriller when it was as if the idea train derailed. Let me explain.The film starts with great special effects. First, the ape is returned to the visible and then Kevin Bacon is made invisible. These were incredibly cool moments. What follows is a masterpiece of erotic filmmaking as Bacon sneaks around molesting a few women and terrorizing others. This was an ultimate voyeuristic moment and made the movie worth watching. However, instead of continuing in this vein. The invisible Bacon returns to the lab to murder his co-workers. The film becomes a stupid, over the top bloodbath. It becomes the kind of film where characters take crowbars to the head and aren't really hurt. Stupid not suspensful, and unexciting. Its too bad the director chickened out of a great erotic film idea.
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Summary: Good effect, but my god what a stupid movie
Review: No logic involved what so ever. The end was about the most stupid thing I have ever seen on film (And that says a lot)
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Summary: Gets an extra star for proving something to me...
Review: Why would I give dreck like "Hollow Man" two stars? Because, simply, it shows that you can have the best special effects in the world, and it doesn't mean anything if you put them in the wrong story. Here's the thing: I *love* the concept of the Invisible Man for a horror movie. It lends itself to perfect, Hitchcockian suspense: you just point the camera at a person alone in their room, doing ordinary things, and the audience will go out of their minds wondering if that person is as alone as they appear to be. No special effects whatsoever are necessary. "Hollow Man" by contrast, has some really amazing special effects. I will give it that much, but so what? The whole point of having an invisible man is not knowing where he will be at a given time. This movie actually goes to great pains to make damn sure you know exactly where Kevin Bacon is at all times, and left me wondering why invisibility, specifically, was the plot device. It could have just as easily been, say, super-strength, and the plot would be essentially no different. I figure that if a great movie featuring an invisible man is ever made again, it will be made by low-budget moviemakers who simply can't afford special effects.
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Summary: Words can't express....
Review: When I rented Hollow Man, the clerk at Blockbuster warned me of it's pure horrible content. I said I'd try it anyways. On the way home, the radio warned me that I should have kept it on the shelf, and with good cause. The movie, in a word, .... I don't believe how stupid it is. First of all, the whole content of the movie, a syrum that can make human cells invisible, is completely impossible. There is no way that you can change some of the elements in our body to a clear colour. How often do you see clear iron? Second of all, what kind of an agency sponsors people to find a way to make one invisible? Why would IBM want to make a man invisible? Wouldn't that be the number one priority of the Government? How come the company is willing to pump millions into that under ground facility, but not take the finished product? Third of all, getting past the sheer impossibilty of it all, what is it that made Kevin Bacon go insane? Is it a rule that all invisible people must try to kill all of their coleagues for sleeping with eachother? Why did he try to destroy all of his work? Why did he kill the dog? Finally, how come once you become, invisible, you're obviously invincible? This movie, in a word, ....
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Summary: Great special effects
Review: A brilliant team of scientists in an underground government lab have transformed animals from an invisible state and back. Sebastian Caine (Kevin Bacon) is determined to be the first human to do it. After his team successfully turns him invisible Sebastian is monitored and tested. When the team decides to bring him back there is a problem and they almost lose him in the process. Sebastian becomes agitated untill he realizes that he can do anything he wants. Then Caine decides he want to remain invisible and will do anything to prevent his team from leaking out thier discovery. First let me say that the special effects are some of the best I have ever seen. They are just jaw dropping. Sadly thats about it. The acting by Kevin Bacon and Elisabeth Shue were ok but the supporting cast was horrible. Also the characters were way under developed. The only one they elaborated on was Sebastian, but then when his personality changes it doesnt make any sense. The DVD is loaded. It includes a making of documentary, deleted scenes, theatrical trailers and more. The picture and sound are excellent and it is presented in widescreen. All in all this is an entertaining flick with great effects and bad acting.
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Summary: Best Movie Ever Made
Review: This is entertainment at its highest level. Lots of action, awe-inspiring special effects, and top-notch performances from Elizabeth Shue and the always-brilliant Kevin Bacon prove to be a winning formula that can only be rivaled by Steven Spielberg, who has proven himself to be the unrivaled maestro of movie madness. But Verhoven proves here that he a great director in his own right, and next to Spielberg, he's probably the greatest ever. If you really like movies, or if you're a Baco fan, you need to purchase "Hollow Man" right now. If you don't, you're missing out and you're probably stupid too.
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Summary: Can't give a zero star, huh? Too bad!!!
Review: This has to be one of the worst films of the last year! What starts out really good, with the invisible gorilla and then Kevin Bacon turning invisible WOW - Special Effects 5 stars!!! All of the actors and actresses in the movie 0 stars!!!!! Yes, this movie is so unbelievably stupid. Instead of Kevin Bacon running around robbing banks or messing with the government or FBI or whatever he stays locked up in his basement laboratory. He does go out and what does he do? Rapes a neighbor and kills people. Yes , that's it! I know you don't believe it, but that is it! Elizabeth shue walks around like some super scientist and her lover annother scientist are absolutely horrible in the movie. Talk about BAD acting! The ending is a total rip-off of the terminator - You think he's dead, but just keeps coming back! This is as bad as it gets. This movie and Battlefield Earth are tied for the worst movie of last year!
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Summary: Oscar-worthy special effects, but for the acting...
Review: Kevin Bacon delivers a pretty predictable role as a "do it, ask questions later" scientist, once finding the serum to invisibility, immediately appoints himself guinea pig, and injects the serum, causing the Oscar-nominated special effects to really make the invisibility seem real. But, once he gets invisible, he uses his newfound invisibility to sexually molest three women (including Shue, costar, and his next-door neigbor) and on a killing rampage Michael-Myers style. Predictable eye candy, but fair acting keeps this from going down as another flop at sci-fi/thrillers. Also, female viewers may get a kick out of seeing Bacon's frontal nudity and backside. Rated R for graphic violence and gore, language, sexual content, and for graphic male and female nudity.
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Summary: All my stars are for the special effects
Review: The best thing about this movie is that it made "6 degrees of Kevin Bacon" that much more fun. Now he's linked to Pat Morita (through Elizabeth Shue), all the cast of Felicity (through Greg Grunberg) and so many more. I'll start on a positive note, the special effects were awesome, no less. They did more with transparent skin, blankets wrapped around the invisible guy, water falling on the invisible guy, blood splattering on the invisible guy etc... that I have to say, 5 stars for special effects. Well, the rest of the movie just sucked, all the bad acting and plotting, cliché plot tricks and typical Hollywood endings that you can pack into an hour and a half. I can't believe Elizabeth Shue and Kevin Bacon went for this movie, the script must have smelled like an outhouse on the hottest day of the year. Pe-yew! Except for special effects, there are no redeeming qualities in the movie. The first thing that stood out for me was... if the guy's eyelids are transparent, aren't his eyes transparent too? Doesn't that mean he's blind? There are dozens of little problems with the whole invisibility thing that were not thought out AT ALL! Plot ideas: Invisibility turns you into a homicidal maniac in about 10 days or so. All scientific types are jerks who think they are God and don't bother following the rules, they break the rules in the name of science! Anyway, I can't recommend the movie to anyone unless they are dying to see the special effects or just are huge Kevin Bacon fans.
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Summary: Starts out good; then fades and goes into oblivion!
Review: This movie in question, i.e., Hollow Man VHS ~ Kevin Bacon is one of those few movies where the title does not match the movie. Ok, Bacon is invisible; but the proper name should have been hollow movie. The beginning of the movie is engrossing and the plot is quite interesting, e.g., Bacon fixing the code in the beginning and him, i.e., Bacon, stalks a person across the street. However, the last half of the movie unfortunately delves straight into mediocrity, e.g. clichéd lines and unbelievable scenes. No, a movie with so much potential deserves better; however, as it, i.e., Hollow Man VHS ~ Kevin Bacon, ends up, then one has to (under any circumstances imaginable in any way shape or form) classify this movie as a failure.
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