Touches You

This movie was so-so. It had it's moments, but wasn't the greatest.

The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

Hollow Man (2000) is an entertaining science fiction thriller film that is sure to please not only fans of those specific genres, but also others. I really think anyone could enjoy this movie. The plot revolves around Sebastian (Kevin Bacon) who is one of the scientists on a team of scientists that are working to create an invisibility serum. They test on various animals at first, but then when they are ready for a human to test the serum on, Sebastian insists that he be the test subject. The serum is successful and he becomes completely invisible, and then when they try to reverse it a couple days later, the reversement is unsuccessful. He eventually becomes completely mad with power and goes after his fellow colleagues. Elisabeth Shue plays his former lover and fellow scientist colleague, and josh brolin also works alongside them and is Shue's current lover. They all play their roles well and I think they were all cast correctly, they fit the characters. The plot is executed well and the visuals were good enough at the time to earn the movie an academy award nomination. 8/10 for Hollow Man. Very enjoyable movie overall.

Whatever the story, the fact is that Verhoerven is among the best directors because he knows how to tell it clearly and efficiently: so here there is no stupid grading and the picture is beautiful to watch.The subject of invisibility is cool because then those kind of movies were not about super heroes but rather scientific experiments (like BTTF, Innerspace, Jurassic, …). The special effects are rather original and simple to understand and for that, the movie innovates in this field (the layers, the empty holed mask,...) The criminal pulse that appears with the invisibility fluid is also original but also proved to be limited: at the end, the movie is about a confrontation between the mad invisible chief and his medical team in their lab. For sure, Verhoeven knows how to offer dynamic and thrills, his cast is experimented but this in between fight impeaches the movie to be a cult movie. Unfortunately, I don't remember at all the other modern treatment with Chevy, Darryl and Carpenter (that's not a good sign) but here, due to the script, it's only a solid but small Verhoerven movie!

This little horror tale could've been so much better. The premise of a scientist who tests an invisibility serum on himself and ends up going homicidal is intriguing and it should show on-screen, but alas this was not the case.The performances in general are not atrociously horrible, but are definitely sub-par. However Kevin Bacon as Dr. Sebastian Caine does manage to stay interesting for the majority of the run-time. Reeking chaos once he is invisible keeps the viewer on edge as Caine's acts escalate from practical joking to downright vicious malevolence as his mind deteriorates to a murderous psychopath. Sadly Bacon couldn't save the generic potboiler of the film's "slasher" angle.The film's special effects are one of the movie's other bright spots. Showing the slow moving process of turning an object invisible is awe- inspiring. Particularly when Kevin Bacon's Sebastian Caine is rendered unseen and we are left with only Bacon's voice to alert us to his presence. Truly an eerie effect.

It was the film that convinced director Paul Verhoeven to leave Hollywood and take a break from film making. His reasoning being that any Hollywood director could have made Hollow Man, a big effects led movie that made a lot of cash at the box office. It's this that is the main problem with the picture, it lacks some of the director's bite and satirical savagery, even the souped up sex (natural or deviant) that often comes with his productions. Yet devoid of expectations of a Verhoeven masterpiece, and the crushing realisation that it basically wastes its potential and plays out as a haunted house stalk movie - it's a good energetic popcorner.It quickly becomes obvious that we are entering special effects extravaganza, the opening credits are dynamite, sci-fi sexy, then the opening gambit sequence literally grabs us and a rodent by the throat. From here on in we are treated to grade "A" effects and some genius ways of exposing "the invisible" Sebastian Caine (Kevin Bacon) to us and the prey he soon comes to hunt. Unfortunately the whole cast performances are a much of a muchness, and playing a roll call of sci-fi stereotypes. All involved here have done much better work in their sleep, but they put the bums on theatre seats and ultimately this works as one of those movies designed to thrill and awe the senses - but not the brain. 6.5/10