Soon, Caine is a killer on the loose and his team, led by ex-girlfriend Linda (Elisabeth Shue) and her new beau Matt (Josh Brolin), must destroy him. But Caine and his team soon find out that making someone invisible is the easy part - it's keeping him sane that's difficult. Working with his research team in a top-secret government facility, Caine will stop at nothing to achieve his goal, even if it means making himself the project's first human guinea pig. Instead, the story here concerns a brilliant scientist named Sebastian Caine (Kevin Bacon), who has one passion: to uncover the secrets of invisibility. The plot of the film approximates the concept of the original 'Invisible Man,' though it's far from a straight remake. If the intense negative reaction that greeted 'Showgirls' simply wore him out, but Verhoeven's 'Hollow Man' is a film as shallow as its title character. Worse, surprising for a director's whose past work had always been topical and incendiary, Verhoeven's 'Hollow Man' is shockingly devoid of socio-political subtext or commentary. 'Hollow Man' is a misfire on nearly every level - the script is dreadful, the acting unenthusiastic, and never once is the film scary or suspenseful. It seemed like a no-brainer - a classic story ripe forĪ modern update, and one that combined all of the same elements of sci-fi, horror and satire that had made such previous Verhoeven hits as ' RoboCop,' ' Starship Troopers' and ' Total Recall' such fantastic guilty pleasures.Īlas, upon watching the film, my initial enthusiasm quickly waned. When I first heard that crazy Dutch auteur Paul Verhoeven was essentially remaking the 'The Invisible Man,' only with cutting-edge special effects and heaping helping of sex, gore and violence, I couldn't wait to buy a ticket. 'Hollow Man' was one of those movies for me.
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