Average Rating: 4.4/10
Reviews Counted: 113
Fresh: 31 | Rotten: 82
Despite awesome special effects, Hollow Man falls short of other films directed by Paul Verhoeven. This flick over time degenerates into a typical horror film.
Average Rating: 3.8/10
Critic Reviews: 29
Fresh: 5 | Rotten: 24
Despite awesome special effects, Hollow Man falls short of other films directed by Paul Verhoeven. This flick over time degenerates into a typical horror film.
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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
R, 1 hr. 52 min.
Aug 4, 2000 Wide
May 8, 2001
$72.1M
Columbia Pictures
All Critics (137) | Top Critics (32) | Fresh (33) | Rotten (85) | DVD (45)
Despite a wealth of special effects and direction by Paul Verhoeven, Mr. Over-the-Top himself, this movie is surprisingly inert, more dull than anything else, with little to recommend it on any level.
Is a combo of thrills, juicy one-liners and fine star turns by Kevin Bacon and Elisabeth Shue.
Ultimately the title is most revealing. It's hollow, man.
Women in the audience now have as many bad role models on screen as the men sitting around them.
Hollow Man is hollow is because there's a void where its imagination should be.
Too bad they couldn't figure out a way to make the whole movie invisible.
Even for mature viewers, this is a flop.
Hollow Man has some of the coolest special effects I've seen. Too bad the film lives up to its name, offering nothing of substance.
All this magical computer-generated whiz-bang, and they can't do more with it than a climax ripping off your choice of slasher movies and Alien films?
...one can't help but admire the glee with which Verhoeven has imbued the film's more disgusting moments...
The violence in this movie is very graphic, so if that isn't your thing...skip it.
Invisible man tale mixes high-tech effects and old-fashioned chills for out-of-sight entertainment.
Interesting concept by director Paul Verhoeven, Hollow Man is an intense Sci Fi horror film with a good cast of actors. The special effects are well done, however considering that this is a film by Paul Verhoevem, it lacks in delivering what you'd expect from the man that brought classic films such as Robocop, Total
October 3, 2011
Super Reviewer
Kevin Bacon starred with Kevin Costner in JFK (1991)...who was one of the star cast members in 3000 Miles to Graceland with Courtney Cox...who used to attend summer camp as a child with Chip Brown...who used to work with me at my last job. There I did it in 4!!! Lmao! Oh yeah... the movie was okay....
June 15, 2010
Super Reviewer
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