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MPAA 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.
| GENRE(S): | Suspense/Thriller |
| WRITTEN BY: |
Gary Scott Thompson (story)
Andrew W. Marlowe (also story) |
| DIRECTED BY: | Paul Verhoeven |
| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: January 2, 2001 Video: January 2, 2001 Theatrical: August 4, 2000 |
| RUNNING TIME: | 112 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: | USA |
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The average user rating for this movie is 5.1 (out of 10) based on 28 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
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.
raVen gave it a 1:
Most people seem to agree that this movie's most fatal flaw was its assumption about human nature - but I disagree. Actually, its most towering failure is that it sabotaged the one element that SHOULD have been its saving grace: science. Science was reponsible for the special effects, and for the story itself, really. The hang-up is that the movie makers didn't have to earn this idea - it was already out there, and so they apparently felt no need to think about it much. And so, once Kevin Bacon is made invisible, any sense of reality is abandoned. Enter: THE PLOT ELEMENT THAT DESTROYED THIS MOVIE.... Sunglasses. There is much made about the fact that Bacon's eyelids are invisible and thus transparent. The big black sunglasses are brought out to prevent our Kevin from being blinded. What??? Using this (invisible = transparent) formula, would he not be blinded anyway - his corneas, retinas, and such being similarly transparent? They couldn't function if light passes right through them. Period. Not to mention what might be happening to the rest of Bacon's bacon, internal organs exposed to light and whatever other rays that wish to pass through transparent human flesh. A better idea would have been to say that invisibility could be achieved through an ultra-chameleon-like biology, not through pane-of-glass transparency. Because in a funny way, Harry Potter's invisibility cape makes a lot more sense. Better Scifi flicks like Jurassic Park have succeeded as great cinema despite being MOSTLY fiction, because once they ask the big "what if," they leave it alone and don't screw it up with sunglasses. It's like showing the monster's zipper on purpose. Doy.
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