Hollow Man

Kevin Bacon, Elizabeth Shue, Josh Brolin and Paul Verhoeven working on the same project? Too good to be true! This film shows what happens when you give an the power of invisibility to an egotistic, perverted and arrogant man. This was scarier when I first watched it years ago, but still really entertaining on this rewatch. Kevin Bacon as usual gives it his all. I want to hate his character so bad, but Kevin is just too good.

This shallow and pointless exercise in grue can't even muster up much of an argument against man playing God. Kevin Bacon plays an unpleasant research scientist who becomes slightly more unpleasant after subjecting himself to invisibility experiments. He proceeds, in true 1990s fashion, to stalk and slash his assistants through corridors and labs. Ho hum. What gives this film an extra degree of nastiness is its almost Larry Clark-like obsession with exploiting naked female flesh. Top it off with two badly wounded scientists who miraculously seem to feel no after effects from their rather bloody and deep wounds, and you have a laughable exploitation epic.

This movie is one of the best horror/thrillers of the summer! Kevin Bacon and Elisabeth Shue do superb performances! The co-stars also do a great job, too. Even though the plot has been done before (The Invisible Man), the movie was still worth a watch, and worth the money paid to get in! In the beginning I was wondering if it was a horror or a drama? But I guess they had to develop Kevin Bacon's character so that he would be known more than "the dude who went invisible and killed people". The movie ended too suddenly though. I mean, they get into the ambulance and it's over? I was hoping there would be some sort of twist, or that the door would be left open for a sequel. My rating: 8 out of 10