Hollow Man | | Cast : | Kevin Bacon | | Director : | Paul Verhoeven | | Studio : | Columbia Tri-Star | | Format : | Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen, Dolby | | Released Date : | August 04, 2000 | | DVD Released Date : | September 03, 2002 | | Language : | French (Dubbed), English (Dubbed), French (Subtitled), English (Subtitled), English (Original Language), French (Original Language) | | Audience Rating : | R (Restricted) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | July 14, 2005 | | Summary | 2.5 stars? WTF???? | Content
 | I sem that a lot of people gave this movie a 2 of lower more than a 5 or higher. WELL WELL. I caught this flick on TV last month and loved it! Yet it was a great movie!
Story: Scientists find a man dead and they take him to their lab and try to revive him using scientific techniques. But then it turns out that this project is not as it was supposed to turn out...
THOUGHTS: A great Horror-Scifi movie! I like it when she's throwing out all those packs of blood to make Hollow man visible. I loved it!
It's fun, scary, fast, and totally outta this world! |
| Rating | | | Date | July 06, 2005 | | Summary | Had potential | Content
| At least the producers never pretended that this film was anything more than it was -- a showcase for stunning digital effects. The script is weak, the actors seem a bit lost, and the pacing is downright awful -- Bacon goes arrogant, driven scientist to homicidal maniac in one reel. And how many times do we have to watch the ensemble good guys get picked off, one by one, by the "monster?" I would like to have seen more of Bacon's temptations with power, wandering the streets of Washington and spreading mischief; this angle was handled much more adroitly by HG Wells over 100 years ago... |
| Rating | | | Date | May 31, 2005 | | Summary | PEOPLE WILL PUT THIS DOWN IT LACKS QUALITY!!! | Content
| I COULDN'T SEE MYSELF GIVING H.MAN EVEN 1 STAR THEY ASKED ME 2 RATE IT...(IT'S MEDIOCRE)2 SAY THE VERY LEAST!! KEVIN BACON IS CAPABLE OF SO MUCH BETTER UM...PERHAPS LIKE FOOTLOOSE & THAT WAS SOME OF HIS' EARLIER WORK! Elizabeth SHUE SHOULD'VE DIED ALONG WITH HER OTHER BOYFRIEND! THE SPECIAL EEFECTS WERE GREAT BUT WASTED ON THIS HORRID FILM! I CAN HONESTLY SAY THE ONLY PART I ENJOYED WAS THE SCENE OF THE GORILLAS' BLOOD STREAM & THAT'S SAD! I GAVE MY COPY 2 A FAMILY MEMBER BECAUSE "I WAS FURIOUS 2 REMEMBER THAT "I ACTUALLY SPENT MONEY ON THAT FILTH"! (I WANT MY DOE BACK)!*
**SOME CAN'T OVERSTAND WHY PEOPLE ARE PUTTING H.MAN DOWN, WHEN I DON'T BELIEVE THAT ANYONE OTHER THAN THE STAFF WOULD SUPPORT IT!!** |
| Rating | | | Date | May 15, 2005 | | Summary | Strange, surreal, The invisible man on RAGE! | Content
| This movie is quite a trip, it was not quite as impressive as I thought it would be in terms of an "invisible man" movie. I actually think Kevin Bacon lowered his standards when he did this movie. The supernatural part of it at the end does not quite..fit. Some GREAT F/X...go ahead and rent it and check it out if you want. It's..okay. But that's it.
In this sci-fi thriller, a man and a woman must fend off a killer whom they cannot see. Scientist Sebastian Caine (Kevin Bacon) is working with a secret military research team headed by Dr. Kramer (William Devane), assigned to create new intelligence technology. With the help of his colleagues Linda McKay (Elisabeth Shue) and Matt Kensington (Josh Brolin), Sebastian has been developing a serum that makes people invisible. The formula is new and unstable, but after a risky but successful test on an ape, an impatient Sebastian, under pressure from Kramer, decides to try it on himself.
It works, but no one counted on the side effects; unable to reverse the serum's effects, an invisible Sebastian goes insane, and begins pursuing Linda (his former girlfriend) and Matt (Linda's current beau) in a fog of homicidal rage. |
| Rating | | | Date | April 30, 2005 | | Summary | Why so many people are putting this film down is beyond me | Content
| Ok, I personally loved this movie. It has a good cast, good acting and a good storyline. The SFX are amazing but that isn't the only thing that this movie has going for it. The story is about a group of scientists who are experimenting in making animals invisible. The procedure works and finally Kevin Bacon (Sebastian Caine) and his crew decide to try the procedure on humans, without informing the Pentagon about it.
Caine volunteers to be the test subject and although they were able to bring a gorilla back from invisibility, they have problems doing it with Sebastian. The side effects begin to manifest themselves over an extended period of time, much of it to do with sexual frustration. So, Sebastian starts doing a little "experimentation" of his own on the female members of his crew, including his former girlfriend. His anger starts to become more and more apparent and uncontrolled as his crew is unable to reverse the procedure.
Finally, he finds out that his former girlfriend, who he still adores, is going steady with another member of his science team. He explodes with anger and begins to take his revenge out on the crew. He also says a very memorable quote:
"It's amazing what you can do when you no longer have to look at yourself in the mirror" What I think this movie also does, is raise some interesting moral questions for us, as an audience. Would we also behave in a similar manner i.e. become sexually frustrated and behave violently, knowing that we are, more or less, omnipotent?
The title of this movie I also found to be so appropriate. In the obvious, physical sense, "hollow" as in empty or void but also in the moral and spiritual sense. Kevin Bacon's character clearly has no morals and his character begins to lack any substance as the film progresses. His love for his former girlfriend becomes more and more a primitive, sexual urge, rather than genuine affection. Nice DVD extras, too.
Well, there you have it. I know I can't change people's opinions on what they think of the movie. They'll either like it or they won't but I wanted to give an explanation as to why the movie appeals to me. Am I just unable to differentiate between good and bad movies? Maybe but then, we all have our own views on what constitutes art. For me, this film is art.
Big thanks to Paul Verhoeven for giving us a great movie, following his previous successes on Robocop, Total Recall, Basic Instinct and Starship Troopers.
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