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When making this kind of film, modern producers are very keen on allowing kids to see them.
Therefore, the language (and, sometimes, the violence and sex) is very toned down.
When the whole world blows up, the good guys go "Oh darn!"
and "Oh my God."
"Hollow Man" gratefully discards that kind of hypocrisy and the characters are at liberty to say what comes most natural to them.
I'm not saying that the most natural response to something gone wrong is to swear - but it makes it more believable if SOMEONE actually swears.
I think we can thank Verhoeven for that.
I get to the cinema every week or so, and regularly check out this site, but never before have I felt compelled to comment on a film.
To my all time list of shockingly bad films - Last Man Standing, Spawn, The Bone Collector - I can now add the drivel that was 'Hollow Man.'
From the awful opening titles - a ridiculously over-long run through of cast and crew put together with alphabetti spaghetti - through to the insulting finale - a world record number of cliches and some of the most absurd dialogue and acting to have ever made it to cinema - this film is dismal, and only the impressive computer graphics keep you from walking out long before the end.
This isn't just my opinion - it was that of my friends, and everyone around us.
When large sections of an audience are laughing and groaning during and after a serious thriller, its clear that the film is hopeless.
Not only that, it was sick too.
The director took the action beyond the bounds of realistic fare for a violent film, and into the realms of an over the top blood soaked B-movie.
It's difficult not to imagine the director as some sort of dirty old man, because the extent of the invisible man's forays out of the lab and into the outside world extended only to two attempts at having a feel of some breasts.
Perhaps sex could well be the first thing on a bloke's mind if made invisible, but aside from the aesthetic pleasures of the ladies involved, it hardly makes entertaining cinema.
[spoilers follow] Get past the films sick exterior, and things are even worse.
Whilst Kevin Bacon does a good job of acting increasingly twisted as 'hollow man', the rest of them - perhaps handicapped by a dire script - do an even better job of being hollow cast.
One long time member of the team is found strangled in a locker by the invisible man, "He's finally snapped" shrugs one colleague without a hint of emotion.
This is par for the course, and the lab team swing between sheer terror and complete indifference with such speed that you wonder how they got into acting.
They pad their way through the lab corridors terrified, guns poised, but then seconds later one of the crew skips happily off back down the corridor to get blood for a hurt colleague.
The lead female treats the invisible man with courtesy and good humour even after he's insulted and abused her, and there seems to be little reaction to his breakouts, even after he drowns the Pentagon chief, "He drowned in his pool last night" reports the same female, spectacularly failing to put two and two together.
The script is littered with this kind of badly acted pedestrian dialogue, and the rest is just an A-Z of film cliches, which get laid on thicker and faster as the film progresses to the point of complete disbelief and amusement at the end.
The 'eureka' moment at the computer, the female undressing at the window, the looped security video - the list really is endless - the predictable disregard for strength in numbers, the decision not to kill the two main stars but just put them in a place of probable impending death and leave them to their own devices, the almost-dead good guy appearing out of nothing to save the woman, the bomb and ubiquitous countdown timer, the fireball explosion which just burns up before reaching the heroes, the falling lift which just stops before hitting them, and more than anything else, the immortality of the bad guy.
The invisible man is burnt to a shred with a makeshift flame-thrower, electrocuted, whacked round the head with a bar which had just sliced straight through one of the lesser actors, and then having apparently survived the explosion, fireball and total destruction of the labs, has more than enough life left to climb up through the fireball for one last pop at the films heroes - by which stage the disbelieving audience are cringing and looking at their watches.
That this exceptionally bad film actually made it to the cinema is astounding.
Even the name of the film is as hopeless as the movie itself, and not even impressive special effects come anywhere near saving this one, which should be avoided at all costs.
(some spoilers) - as if you wouldn't know how it'll end My expectations for HOLLOW MAN were high.
A very good commercial, a director like Paul Verhoeven and actors like Kevin Bacon and Elisabeth Shue, plus a very interesting theme - invisibility.
Every premise for a great movie was accomplished.
Unfortunately these things didn't matter at all.
The movie was very very week, without suspense and awfully predictable.
It's all about a bunch of scientists who discovered invisibility.
After the tests on animals succeeded, Kevin Bacon decides to test it on himself.
Once he's invisible, he changes completely, realizing the advantages of not being seen.
From this to murder there's a very thin line.
Hollow Man is an ill movie.
It suffers of the disease that many new movies have: the special effects.
From a challenging theme that could have lead the producers to a great tensed psychological thriller, Verhoeven ruins everything focusing only on special effects, without giving a damn about the real value of the movie.
I must admit, the fx are awesome, probably the best i have seen since Matrix, but that's not enough to make a movie good.
Actually that's the problem with the movies today.
Just like Verhoeven, most directors care only about spectacular scenes - and nothing more.
The exceptions are very few, and probably the Matrix is the only movie that combines perfectly fabulous special effects and great plot.
After Starship Troopers, Verhoeven disappoints again.
In stead of a great film, HM is cr*p.
There are only 2 reasons why you could watch this movie: 1.
the special effects 2.
the joke with Superman and Wonder Woman (i won't spoil this moment for you...
) Okay, so what went wrong with the movie?
Everything.
Let's see what i can remember.
--- It's not tensed at all.
It should've been, but it's not.
--- It's too predictable .
You know from the beginning who will die and who will live.
--- In stead of focusing on the psychological part, Verhoeven cares only about the effects.
--- Very many cliches.
--- Of course the bad guy wakes up a few times before dying.
--- Just like in every low quality horror, the first rule is to let the characters separate as much as possible.
Every time there is somebody alone in the lab, perfect victim for Bacon.
--- Some holes in the plot.
Example: at the beginning, Bacon has to scan his finger to enter the lab.
After he's invisible, how can he do that?
--- The ending: absolutely horrible.
--- After Shue hits Bacon in the head, Bacon falls down to the ground.
Then Shue and Brolin leave quietly and slowly, without looking back.
Is that normal?
Then Bacon gets up, attacks them, they "kill" him again.
And then Shue screams "I heard an explosion" (happened minutes ago), and they suddenly run inside.
Didn't she hear that explosion some time before?
--- There's a scene in which you can see the microphones hanging above the actors.
Come on, Mr Verhoeven , i expected much more from you!
So that's about Hollow Man.
What was supposed to be a great movie turned into a scam.
Vote: 4 out of 10 (for the special effects)
Leave it to Paul "sex on the brain" Verhoeven to come up with a pointlessly sleazy and juvenile version of the INVISIBLE MAN story.
If he'd direct a Pokemon film, I'm sure he'd turn it into some massive orgy of sorts.
I don't mind sex or even sleaze (check my other reviews) on film but frankly, it's obvious the director has a one track mind and he couldn't see interesting aspects about an invisible man storyline than the kinky implications it comes with it.
It's a shame because it could have been good if the film didn't spend so much time having an invisible Kevin Bacon grope women.
The game cast of actors does what it can with the one-note cheesy script but I felt bad for some of them, including William Devane, who is totally wasted here.
But then what could I have expected from the director of SHOWGIRLS, which, btw, is much more entertaining than this stilted & bad film.
Going into this movie you know that this is movie has six lab technicians in a sealed lab with an invisible maniac.
So right away you're guessing who will live and who will die.
The survivors end up being exactly who you'd expect them to be, so no points for plot twists there.
And if you're not sure if this is a B-movie or a movie that just happens to take place in a lab with an engaging story, William Devane plays a part: instant B-movie status.
The movie is promising in the beginning.
At the lab we are introduced to the invisible gorilla who is becoming increasingly violent.
Oooh, foreboding.
The best scene in the whole movie is when the lab team makes the gorilla visible again.
Great special effects.
Same thing when they make Bacon invisible.
There are a couple of bare breasts, a really lame dirty joke and enough out of place swearing to give this movie an R-rating that it really didn't need.
For a thriller there weren't really any surprises, except when Shue makes like MacGyver in the freezer, which is more of a 'Whaaaa?
' OK, there is one surprise.
That's when Caine (Bacon) comes back one last time in the elevator shaft.
It was a surprise but only because you're yelling at TV, 'Noooo!
You're dead already!
End the movie!
' Speaking of yelling at the TV,that's all I did for the last 25 minutes or so.
'Put on your f#@%ing goggles!

When making this kind of film, modern producers are very keen on allowing kids to see them.

Therefore, the language (and, sometimes, the violence and sex) is very toned down.

When the whole world blows up, the good guys go "Oh darn!"

and "Oh my God."

"Hollow Man" gratefully discards that kind of hypocrisy and the characters are at liberty to say what comes most natural to them.

I'm not saying that the most natural response to something gone wrong is to swear - but it makes it more believable if SOMEONE actually swears.

I think we can thank Verhoeven for that.

I get to the cinema every week or so, and regularly check out this site, but never before have I felt compelled to comment on a film.

To my all time list of shockingly bad films - Last Man Standing, Spawn, The Bone Collector - I can now add the drivel that was 'Hollow Man.'

From the awful opening titles - a ridiculously over-long run through of cast and crew put together with alphabetti spaghetti - through to the insulting finale - a world record number of cliches and some of the most absurd dialogue and acting to have ever made it to cinema - this film is dismal, and only the impressive computer graphics keep you from walking out long before the end.

This isn't just my opinion - it was that of my friends, and everyone around us.

When large sections of an audience are laughing and groaning during and after a serious thriller, its clear that the film is hopeless.

Not only that, it was sick too.

The director took the action beyond the bounds of realistic fare for a violent film, and into the realms of an over the top blood soaked B-movie.

It's difficult not to imagine the director as some sort of dirty old man, because the extent of the invisible man's forays out of the lab and into the outside world extended only to two attempts at having a feel of some breasts.

Perhaps sex could well be the first thing on a bloke's mind if made invisible, but aside from the aesthetic pleasures of the ladies involved, it hardly makes entertaining cinema.

[spoilers follow] Get past the films sick exterior, and things are even worse.

Whilst Kevin Bacon does a good job of acting increasingly twisted as 'hollow man', the rest of them - perhaps handicapped by a dire script - do an even better job of being hollow cast.

One long time member of the team is found strangled in a locker by the invisible man, "He's finally snapped" shrugs one colleague without a hint of emotion.

This is par for the course, and the lab team swing between sheer terror and complete indifference with such speed that you wonder how they got into acting.

They pad their way through the lab corridors terrified, guns poised, but then seconds later one of the crew skips happily off back down the corridor to get blood for a hurt colleague.

The lead female treats the invisible man with courtesy and good humour even after he's insulted and abused her, and there seems to be little reaction to his breakouts, even after he drowns the Pentagon chief, "He drowned in his pool last night" reports the same female, spectacularly failing to put two and two together.

The script is littered with this kind of badly acted pedestrian dialogue, and the rest is just an A-Z of film cliches, which get laid on thicker and faster as the film progresses to the point of complete disbelief and amusement at the end.

The 'eureka' moment at the computer, the female undressing at the window, the looped security video - the list really is endless - the predictable disregard for strength in numbers, the decision not to kill the two main stars but just put them in a place of probable impending death and leave them to their own devices, the almost-dead good guy appearing out of nothing to save the woman, the bomb and ubiquitous countdown timer, the fireball explosion which just burns up before reaching the heroes, the falling lift which just stops before hitting them, and more than anything else, the immortality of the bad guy.

The invisible man is burnt to a shred with a makeshift flame-thrower, electrocuted, whacked round the head with a bar which had just sliced straight through one of the lesser actors, and then having apparently survived the explosion, fireball and total destruction of the labs, has more than enough life left to climb up through the fireball for one last pop at the films heroes - by which stage the disbelieving audience are cringing and looking at their watches.

That this exceptionally bad film actually made it to the cinema is astounding.

Even the name of the film is as hopeless as the movie itself, and not even impressive special effects come anywhere near saving this one, which should be avoided at all costs.

(some spoilers) - as if you wouldn't know how it'll end My expectations for HOLLOW MAN were high.

A very good commercial, a director like Paul Verhoeven and actors like Kevin Bacon and Elisabeth Shue, plus a very interesting theme - invisibility.

Every premise for a great movie was accomplished.

Unfortunately these things didn't matter at all.

The movie was very very week, without suspense and awfully predictable.

It's all about a bunch of scientists who discovered invisibility.

After the tests on animals succeeded, Kevin Bacon decides to test it on himself.

Once he's invisible, he changes completely, realizing the advantages of not being seen.

From this to murder there's a very thin line.

Hollow Man is an ill movie.

It suffers of the disease that many new movies have: the special effects.

From a challenging theme that could have lead the producers to a great tensed psychological thriller, Verhoeven ruins everything focusing only on special effects, without giving a damn about the real value of the movie.

I must admit, the fx are awesome, probably the best i have seen since Matrix, but that's not enough to make a movie good.

Actually that's the problem with the movies today.

Just like Verhoeven, most directors care only about spectacular scenes - and nothing more.

The exceptions are very few, and probably the Matrix is the only movie that combines perfectly fabulous special effects and great plot.

After Starship Troopers, Verhoeven disappoints again.

In stead of a great film, HM is cr*p.

There are only 2 reasons why you could watch this movie: 1.

the special effects 2.

the joke with Superman and Wonder Woman (i won't spoil this moment for you...

) Okay, so what went wrong with the movie?

Everything.

Let's see what i can remember.

--- It's not tensed at all.

It should've been, but it's not.

--- It's too predictable .

You know from the beginning who will die and who will live.

--- In stead of focusing on the psychological part, Verhoeven cares only about the effects.

--- Very many cliches.

--- Of course the bad guy wakes up a few times before dying.

--- Just like in every low quality horror, the first rule is to let the characters separate as much as possible.

Every time there is somebody alone in the lab, perfect victim for Bacon.

--- Some holes in the plot.

Example: at the beginning, Bacon has to scan his finger to enter the lab.

After he's invisible, how can he do that?

--- The ending: absolutely horrible.

--- After Shue hits Bacon in the head, Bacon falls down to the ground.

Then Shue and Brolin leave quietly and slowly, without looking back.

Is that normal?

Then Bacon gets up, attacks them, they "kill" him again.

And then Shue screams "I heard an explosion" (happened minutes ago), and they suddenly run inside.

Didn't she hear that explosion some time before?

--- There's a scene in which you can see the microphones hanging above the actors.

Come on, Mr Verhoeven , i expected much more from you!

So that's about Hollow Man.

What was supposed to be a great movie turned into a scam.

Vote: 4 out of 10 (for the special effects)

Leave it to Paul "sex on the brain" Verhoeven to come up with a pointlessly sleazy and juvenile version of the INVISIBLE MAN story.

If he'd direct a Pokemon film, I'm sure he'd turn it into some massive orgy of sorts.

I don't mind sex or even sleaze (check my other reviews) on film but frankly, it's obvious the director has a one track mind and he couldn't see interesting aspects about an invisible man storyline than the kinky implications it comes with it.

It's a shame because it could have been good if the film didn't spend so much time having an invisible Kevin Bacon grope women.

The game cast of actors does what it can with the one-note cheesy script but I felt bad for some of them, including William Devane, who is totally wasted here.

But then what could I have expected from the director of SHOWGIRLS, which, btw, is much more entertaining than this stilted & bad film.

Going into this movie you know that this is movie has six lab technicians in a sealed lab with an invisible maniac.

So right away you're guessing who will live and who will die.

The survivors end up being exactly who you'd expect them to be, so no points for plot twists there.

And if you're not sure if this is a B-movie or a movie that just happens to take place in a lab with an engaging story, William Devane plays a part: instant B-movie status.

The movie is promising in the beginning.

At the lab we are introduced to the invisible gorilla who is becoming increasingly violent.

Oooh, foreboding.

The best scene in the whole movie is when the lab team makes the gorilla visible again.

Great special effects.

Same thing when they make Bacon invisible.

There are a couple of bare breasts, a really lame dirty joke and enough out of place swearing to give this movie an R-rating that it really didn't need.

For a thriller there weren't really any surprises, except when Shue makes like MacGyver in the freezer, which is more of a 'Whaaaa?

' OK, there is one surprise.

That's when Caine (Bacon) comes back one last time in the elevator shaft.

It was a surprise but only because you're yelling at TV, 'Noooo!

You're dead already!

End the movie!

' Speaking of yelling at the TV,that's all I did for the last 25 minutes or so.

'Put on your f#@%ing goggles!