Product Details

• Actors: Kevin Bacon, Elisabeth Shue, Josh Brolin, Kim Dickens, Greg Grunberg
• Directors: Paul Verhoeven
• Writers: Andrew W. Marlowe, Gary Scott Thompson
• Producers: Alan Marshall, Douglas Wick, Kenneth J. Silverstein, Marion Rosenberg, Stacy Lumbrezer
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Special Edition, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: French (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround), English (Dolby Digital 5.1), English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround)
• Subtitles: French, English
• Region: Region 1 encoding (US and Canada only)
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• Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Studio: Sony Pictures
• DVD Release Date: January 2, 2001
• Run Time: 112 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (268 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00003CXKA
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #38,713 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

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In Paul Verhoeven's appropriately shallow Hollow Man, Kevin Bacon plays a bad-boy egotistical scientist who heads up a double-secret government team experimenting with turning life-forms invisible. How do we know he's a bad boy? Because he (a) wears a leather overcoat, (b) compares himself to God, (c) drives a sports car, and (d) spies on his comely next-door neighbor while eating Twinkies. Sadly, this is the most character development anyone gets in this undernourished action/sci-fi thriller, which boasts some amazing special effects and some amazingly ridiculous plot twists. After experimenting rather ruthlessly on a menagerie of lab animals, Bacon finally cracks the code that will turn the invisible gorillas, dogs, and so on, back into their visible forms. Does it work on humans? Faster than you can say "six degrees," Mr. Bacon appoints himself human guinea pig, strapping down for an injection of fluorescent-colored serum. Thanks to some phenomenal, seamless and Oscar-worthy computer effects, Bacon is indeed rendered invisible, organ by organ, vein by vein. And what's the first thing you'd do if you were invisible? Why, spy on your female coworkers in the bathroom and molest your comely next-door neighbor, of course! Soon, Bacon is thoroughly psychotic, and it's up to Elisabeth Shue (Bacon's coworker and ex-girlfriend) and hunky Josh Brolin (her current snuggle bunny) to defeat the invisible man, who's picking off the science team one by one. You'd think this would be a prime opportunity for copious amounts of cheesy sex and aggressive violence--which Verhoeven served up so well and so exuberantly in Starship Troopers and Basic Instinct--but if anything, the director seems to tone down the proceedings, and really, who wants a muted Paul Verhoeven movie? Shue (who got top billing and a bad haircut to boot) and Brolin (who, yes, does take off his shirt at least once) generate little heat, and while Bacon does give an effective, primarily voice-oriented performance, his character is so underdeveloped that, well, you can see right through him. --Mark Englehart

Product Description

Kevin bacon and elisabeth shue play former lovers who along with a team of other scientists like themselves discover the secret of invisibility. Bacon volunteers to be the guinea pig but then uses the power to wreak havoc on unsuspecting victims. Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 12/21/2004 Starring: Kevin Bacon Josh Brolin Run time: 113 minutes Rating: R Director: Paul Verhoeven

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25 of 33 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Don't buy this thing, November 7, 2000

By	Dr. Christopher Coleman (HONG KONG) - See all my reviews (TOP 1000 REVIEWER)

So the special effects were pretty good. Who cares? Go hang out in a morgue or sit in on an anatomy class and see the real thing. The plot of this sad effort is moronic--why any of the characters do what they do is inexplicable, and why they don't use their heads and *think* about what to do is ONLY because the writers and director didn't CARE enough to come up with a plot. I mean, seriously, you are smart enough to be working on a top secret research project with major government funds, but when your boss turns into an invisible homicidal maniac, it doesn't occur to you to always wear the special glasses which allow you to see him? This kind of inanity pervades the movie. And why this bothered me so much, I'm not quite sure--but when they make a latex mask for Kevin Bacon, they don't bother to cut holes in it for his nostrils! If you've ever worn a diving mask, you'd know how humid and uncomfortable that would be within seconds. In fact, I've had my face cast, and they put straws in my nose so that I could BREATHE DURING THE PROCEDURE! So there were holes in the mask from the very beginning. It's this carelessness that drives me to distraction--if you are going to put millions of dollars into a film, why not really THINK about it, instead of insulting our intelligence? Believe me, it is not worth missing 112 minutes of your life, and whatever this costs you financially, to see the few minutes of special effects that are the only redeeming quality to this film. Go buy a Fangoria instead--hey, then you can look at the effects in detail. Or get to that anatomy class.

9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars NUTRITIONALLY VOID EYE CANDY, February 19, 2001

By	Claude Bouchard Jr. "Eurodancemix" (Frederick, MD) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Truly an awful film. The special effects, as you've probably read from other reviews are indeed mind-blowing. The FX Coordinator on this project really deserves an Oscar for this work, because your jaw will drop in amazament. Realistic, lifelike, and extremely detailed. Now, if only this applied to the rest of the movie.

Insulting to the intelligence on so many levels, the story is needlessly vulgar and downright stupid. From the concept of late 20's/early 30's MTV-generation scientists (who are so hip it hurts) having free reign and unlimited Pentagon budgets to the almost totalitarian power of Kevin Bacon's character, the whole thing drips with smarminess and in-your-face idiocy. Bacon's character is so obsessed with sex and power, it's hard to imagine him being able to concentrate long enough on his experiments for them to be even remotely successful. A couple of torture-to-animals scenes (albeit computer-generated) were unnecessary. The whole thing was just a revolting mess. A true waste of time and effort on all parts.

Avoid this one.

9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars A Film That Truly Earns it's 1 Star, February 10, 2001

By	J. Brittman "The Bottom Line" (Long Island, New York) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I read many of the reviews on Hollow Man before renting it, but I stupidly thought the FX could make up for a really bad plot and acting...WRONG! The FX are good but your four dollars would be better spent re-renting Total Recall or even Starship Troopers. Kevin Bacon has never been worse, surprising after he was so good in Stir of Echoes, it's not so much his acting because he's only visable for the first half hour, but the dialogue is atrocious. Elizabeth Shue is one of the worst actresses ever, she just got lucky with Leaving Las Vegas (they could have cast a circus chimp and it would have got raves because of Nick Cage), but her true colors come through here. Besides the talentless cast, the plot is simply non-existent. Sebastian just decides to go crazy half way through the movie, OK?! If you are even considering buying this movie, please take your 20 Dollars and flush it down the toilet right now. You'll get more satisfaction from watching it spiral down the bowl than you will from watching this trash.