Metascore
24 out of 100

Generally unfavorable reviews - based on 35 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 35
  2. Negative: 23 out of 35
  1. 70
    Filthy fun, if not much more.
  2. An eminently watchable B-movie nightmare.
  3. 60
    The film becomes so much urgent nonsense, its killing spree neither cheaply thrilling nor even more cheaply cathartic. It's only gory.
  4. 50
    Hollow Man can think of nothing more interesting to do than spy on his girlfriend and assault his neighbor.Too bad. Really too bad, because the movie is supported by some of the most intriguing special effects I've seen.
  5. 50
    Turns resoundingly dumb in its last 40 minutes.
  6. Might have worked as a sex comedy, certainly as porn. But as a suspense thriller, it's creepy for all the wrong reasons.
  7. 50
    Boasts special effects that are really spectacular - too bad it lacks flesh-and-blood characters.
  8. 50
    Gleefully confrontational in its ludicrous, pulpy tawdriness.
  9. Reviewed by: Robert Koehler
    50
    Pic's future as a cult item is a sure bet.
  10. 42
    A special-effects-and-chase-to-the-death movie, with little special about it.
  11. It is relatively suspenseless and often distastefully crude.
  12. 40
    Verhoeven, who inflicted "Showgirls" on us, skips the provacative questions raised by invisibility and goes straight to rape and murder.
  13. Reviewed by: Marc Caro
    38
    The folks who made this movie apparently had nothing inside their heads, either.
  14. Verhoeven's most deeply disturbing film yet.
  15. 30
    This mean-spirited invisible man movie tries to hide its poverty of fresh ideas behind a load of state-of-the-art special effects.
  16. 30
    A boisterous, gooey miscue.
  17. 30
    If only the rest of the movie were as good as its cast.
  18. This is fatuous twaddle with a nasty, misogynistic edge.
  19. Might be a blast of ridiculous fun -- the way truly bad movies tend to be -- if it weren't so noxious and reprehensible.
  20. 25
    Ultimately the title is most revealing. It's hollow, man.
  21. Reviewed by: Jay Carr
    25
    Should have been an inaudible man movie. Every time the characters open their mouths, they hammer it deeper into the ground.
  22. 25
    How can we make the entire movie disappear?
  23. Reviewed by: Robert Horton
    20
    One wonders if the only original directors left are the obsessives and the freaks. This guy qualifies on both counts.
  24. It's not terribly interesting on the subject.
  25. A terribly bad movie, one of the worst of its kind in recent years.
  26. Ultimately it's an ugly, insipid rape fantasy, nothing more.
  27. Reviewed by: Tom Keogh
    10
    We don't even have Joe Eszterhas to blame for this one.
  28. Reviewed by: John Hartl
    10
    Maybe Kevin Bacon can use the Twinkie defense to explain Hollow Man.
  29. Despite a wealth of special effects...this movie is surprisingly inert, more dull than anything else, with little to recommend it on any level.
  30. Endure the long, slow, unraveling of this movie, which can't even muster the intelligence to be pretentious or the bravado to be amusingly bad.
  31. Reviewed by: David Edelstein
    10
    Turns into a moronic, psycho-on-the-loose picture pretty quickly.
  32. Reviewed by: Richard Corliss
    10
    Too many special effects, many of them stomach churning; too much pornographically arranged death.
  33. Definitely stuck in the fourth grade.
  34. 0
    I haven't had a worse time at the movies this summer.
User Score

Mixed or average reviews- based on 52 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 21
  2. Negative: 12 out of 21
  1. JimmyH.
    10
    Great action, too many talking scens! but in the end i love the movie! i especally like the guy who plays carter!
  2. JamesH.s
    7
    I am not quite sure why I liked this film so much and so few others did. I found it to be a very tense and exciting sci-fi thriller.It is wonderfully imaginative, has good performances, especially Kevin Bacon, one of his best roles. The special effects are excellent. The plot is a great one, I never lost interest. Great film. Full Review »
  3. KP
    7
    NO way does this movie deserve a sub 30's rating. Again NO way! I reserve a rating that low for things that are unwatchable. Not that this movie was all that great. It was mediocre pretty much all across the board, but done well enough. I'd normally give it a 5 out of 10, but the ratings are so skewed towards the low end, I bumped mine up in a small effort to balance things out. Definitely a watchable flick. Full Review »