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Hollow Man
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Generally unfavorable reviews
Based on 35 critic reviews
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Based on 30 votes
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Suspense/Thriller
Written by:
Gary Scott Thompson (story)
Andrew W. Marlowe (also story)
Directed by: Paul Verhoeven
Release Date:
Theatrical: August 4, 2000
DVD: January 2, 2001
Running Time: 112 minutes, Color
Origin: USA
Summary
RATING: R for violence, nudity, vulgarity, animal abuse
Starring Steve Altes, Kevin Bacon, Josh Brolin, William Devane, and Elizabeth Shue
A government scientist (Bacon) discovers how to make people invisible. After a freak accident that makes him slowly disappear, he begins to go insane and seeks revenge on the other scientists on the project.
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What The Critics Said
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
Mr. Showbiz Michael Atkinson
Filthy fun, if not much more.
TNT RoughCut J. Rentilly
The film becomes so much urgent nonsense, its killing spree neither cheaply thrilling nor even more cheaply cathartic. It's only gory.
New York Daily News Jack Mathews
Might have worked as a sex comedy, certainly as porn. But as a suspense thriller, it's creepy for all the wrong reasons.
Read Full Review >Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
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.
Read Full Review >New York Post Lou Lumenick
Boasts special effects that are really spectacular - too bad it lacks flesh-and-blood characters.
Village Voice J. Hoberman
Gleefully confrontational in its ludicrous, pulpy tawdriness.
Read Full Review >Miami Herald Rene Rodriguez
Turns resoundingly dumb in its last 40 minutes.
Portland Oregonian Shawn Levy
A special-effects-and-chase-to-the-death movie, with little special about it.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer William Arnold
It is relatively suspenseless and often distastefully crude.
Read Full Review >Rolling Stone Peter Travers
Verhoeven, who inflicted "Showgirls" on us, skips the provacative questions raised by invisibility and goes straight to rape and murder.
Philadelphia Inquirer Carrie Rickey
Verhoeven's most deeply disturbing film yet.
Chicago Tribune Marc Caro
The folks who made this movie apparently had nothing inside their heads, either.
TV Guide Maitland McDonagh
This mean-spirited invisible man movie tries to hide its poverty of fresh ideas behind a load of state-of-the-art special effects.
Read Full Review >USA Today Susan Wloszczyna
Ultimately the title is most revealing. It's hollow, man.
San Francisco Chronicle Edward Guthmann
Might be a blast of ridiculous fun -- the way truly bad movies tend to be -- if it weren't so noxious and reprehensible.
Read Full Review >Baltimore Sun Ann Hornaday
How can we make the entire movie disappear?
Christian Science Monitor David Sterritt
This is fatuous twaddle with a nasty, misogynistic edge.
Read Full Review >Boston Globe Jay Carr
Should have been an inaudible man movie. Every time the characters open their mouths, they hammer it deeper into the ground.
Film.com Robert Horton
One wonders if the only original directors left are the obsessives and the freaks. This guy qualifies on both counts.
Read Full Review >San Francisco Examiner G. Allen Johnson
A terribly bad movie, one of the worst of its kind in recent years.
The New York Times Dana Stevens
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.
Read Full Review >Time Richard Corliss
Too many special effects, many of them stomach churning; too much pornographically arranged death.
Dallas Observer Gregory Weinkauf
Ultimately it's an ugly, insipid rape fantasy, nothing more.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times Kenneth Turan
Despite a wealth of special effects...this movie is surprisingly inert, more dull than anything else, with little to recommend it on any level.
Read Full Review >Film.com John Hartl
Maybe Kevin Bacon can use the Twinkie defense to explain Hollow Man.
Read Full Review >Slate David Edelstein
Turns into a moronic, psycho-on-the-loose picture pretty quickly.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 5.1 (out of 10) based on 30 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
David S. gave it a2:
Only interesting if you are a student of Hollywood special effects. Otherwise it's quite boring and a little perverse in its themes and over-the-top gore.
R. Lopez gave it a7:
This movie got a seven from me for what is and what it means to me as a science geek. This is not a great movie, don't get me wrong; but is a exceptionally well executed one at that. Hollow man follows the story of Dr. Sebastian Cane, an egotistical and arrogant scientist working on a way to make living matter invisible. He has already succeeded on animal trials and is ready to go to the next step, human testing, Cane volunteers to be the first human subject. The experiment seems like a major success, until something goes terrible goes wrong. Now Sebastian is becoming increasingly paranoid and out of control, doomed to be without flesh for all his life. Now his team wants to shut the project down and bring in the government to catch Sebastian, But Sebastian traps them in the lab with him. With time running out can the team really out smart a maniac invisible man? Hollow man is not a great movie in the sense of what it is, it is a great achievement in visual effects and putting a whole new story to the invisible man tale. It also makes you wonder if that feeling you get when your alone is really just a feeling, or if it's just your imagination playing tricks on you.
Dizzle Fizzle gave it a10:
The funniest comedy of the year, if not the decade. Everything including the story, acting, and sheer genius by the director just makes me want to pee my pants. Obviously this movie was not meant to be serious, and most of the critics did not realize this. There is no way that anyone could be stupid enough to make a movie like this and have it actually be a suspenseful thriller. That's just crazy. Keep up the good work Paul Verhoeven, I look forward to other comedies coming out directed by you.
James T. gave it a2:
This movie has all the bad elements of a B rated horror flick. However it's not snakes on a plane bad, more like snakes in a pit of boringness. It doesn't even have the guilty sense of bad movie watching pleasure. Neophytes who like bad movies would really have to dig deep to enjoy this one.
Big K. gave it a4:
I've seen better and worse films with Mr Bacon. This film is simply another cliched foray into the sci/fi/horror type flick. Truly ordinary in the way it ends with the lacklustre defeat of the (by that stage) poorly computer generated Bacon. (in fact he looks like he might actually have been made out of bacon).
[Anonymous] gave it a5:
Invisibility effects were cool, but after Sebastian's transformation, there's nothing but dawdling around until he finally goes insane.
[Anonymous] gave it a10:
This movie is da bomb.
