Dynamixor The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

Lidia Draper Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

Catherina If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.

Billy Ollie Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

leplatypus 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!

ivo-cobra8 It is one of my favorite horror slasher rated-R films from Paul Verhoeven Hollow Man (2000) which I think it is pretty underrated. I enjoy this movie it is rated-R slasher film about invisible man. This is my third favorite Paul Verhoeven film I am big fan of the director my number one of his will always be RoboCop the second one Total Recall while number three is this "Hollow Man". I rented this movie in the video store when I was in a high school I was a seventeen year old teen who I was looking for a good movie and I remember asking the owner for this movie if it is good, who recommend me to give it a chance. I watch it and I like then, today I love it. I got this movie on Blu-ray disc the director's cut that I absolutely love it. Plot: Brilliant scientist Sebastian Caine (Kevin Bacon) has one passion: to uncover the secrets of invisibility. 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. But Caine and his team soon find out that making someone invincible is the easy part - it's keeping him sane that's difficult. Now 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 how do you stop something - or someone - you can't see? I love the cast: I think Kevin bacon did great job as the main scientist Sebastian Caine, more scientist who of course makes him self project's first human guinea pig who loses his mind and starts killing his fellow workers. I really love Kevin Bacon in this movie and I thought in my personal opinion he acted brilliant as the mad scientist who becomes a killer on the loose. I thought Elisabeth Shue did great as our female lead and hero. Josh Brolin is in it as Elisabeth Shue's boyfriend who is also a scientist. Kim Dickens, Greg Grunberg, Joey Slotnick and William Devane. Jerry Goldsmith did a music for this movie, I miss Jerry Goldsmith I thought he made a pretty good score. Mark Goldblatt he edited a lot of action movies if you hear about this guy he edited a lot of action movies who directed The Punisher (1989) and Dead Heat (1988) and he also edited Commando and Rambo: First Blood Part II, The Terminator and Terminator 2: Judgment Day. The movie has great special effects I know Paul Verhoeven was really disappointed with the film, well anyone could make that film. No one could make RoboCop like Paul Verhoeven did no one could make Starship Troopers like Paul Verhoeven did, but this seem like typical Hollywood film like anyone cold have make. That is why he want back to his homeland deiced to make movies there. I don't understand that I really don't. I think Paul your wrong, cause not anyone would make this film but you. How many movies invisable man rated-R slasher films with a lot of blood and t**s you see this days? You knew back then none. But there is really not that many invisible man movies period, especially R-rated one and especially slasher one's. It doesn't hold back on the gore and it doesn't hold back on the nudity. In my honest opinion this is my favorite invisible man movie! I don't understand the hate for this movie I think Elisabeth Shue did a solid job as the main led and hero. You have really great special effects of an invisible man. You have blood gory, huge explosions. The ending scene in which Elisabeth Shue was trapped in the freezer with Josh Brolin was brilliant how Linda constructs an electromagnet using a defibrillator and other equipment, to open the freezer door. That was excellent scene, I love the scene in which Linda appears in the elevator and fires the flamethrower at Caine, just like Kurt Russell in The Thing (1982) one of my favorite horror films, she burns Caine skin off and corrupt his plans. I love those scenes I love that trapped scientist are fighting for their lives and fight's off invisible man the killer. Only two of the scientist mains as a sole survivor. I don't know what you want? You have a good fantastic horror film that is not that bad like mainly people are saying and claiming. For 2000 special effects they do look for the most part pretty good. I don't really think Gladiator's effects were that much better that Hallow Man's but oh well. The rating I give to this film is 8/10. Anything under 7 would be ridiculous, as anyone claiming this isn't at least a GOOD slasher rated-R horror film (it is sure as hell better than all the comic movies that get high scores) needs their head examined. It is my favorite Paul Verhoeven film and I really miss the director and his movies.Hollow Man is a 2000 American-German science fiction horror film directed by Paul Verhoeven and starring Kevin Bacon, Elisabeth Shue and Josh Brolin. Bacon portrays the title character, a scientist who renders himself invisible and goes on a killing spree, a story inspired by H. G. Wells' novel The Invisible Man. The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Visual Effects in 2001, but lost to Gladiator.8/10 Grade: B+ Studio: Columbia Pictures Starring: Elisabeth Shue, Kevin Bacon, Josh Brolin, Kim Dickens, Greg Grunberg, Joey Slotnick, Mary Randle, William Devane Director: Paul Verhoeven Producers: Douglas Wick, Alan Marshall Screenplay: Andrew W. Marlowe Story by Gary Scott Thompson, Andrew W. Marlowe Rated: R Running Time: 1Hr. 52 Mins. Budget: $95.000.000 Box Office: $191,200,000

Predrag "Hollow Man" displays all the standard symptoms of advanced Verhoeven Syndrome: shallow plot, no character development, gratuitous violence, and a contempt for the laws of science that almost amounts to an organized campaign to subvert SF as a genre. Witness the dramatic idea (stolen directly from H.G. Wells, of course) of making animals and human beings completely invisible, without the slightest shred of scientific explanation except for some mumbo-jumbo about quantum shifts. Making organisms vanish is done by injecting them with a lurid orange liquid injected from an immense hypodermic that looks like a Fisher-Price toy (but only after it's been "irradiated"). Making the creatures visible again calls for the identical process - but this time with a bright blue liquid! (I'm not making this up, honest, although I might have got the colors transposed).The film has its moments of interest and truly amazing special effects--some of the best I've ever seen in a motion picture, in fact. If "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" was an opening for live action/animation and "Terminator 2" was the breakthrough motion picture for pure special effects, this is the next level. It starts with an intriguing premise, just as "RoboCop" and "Total Recall" did, only those two films kept elevating the action, suspense, plot, and emotional attachment, something that "Hollow Man" is lacking. The main problem with this film was putting all the weight on one character, Sebastian Caine (as misplayed by Kevin Bacon). When the main character is a mad scientist, who's obviously already nuts to begin with, where can you go from there? Bacon makes the transition with no perceptible difference. (Amusingly enough, Bacon was chosen over Guy Pearce and Edward Norton for this role because he has the "ability to be both charming and diabolical." Neither of which are in evidence in this movie.) As for the rest of the designer docs who make up the cast, none of them struck me as being even remotely scientific. When they finally started the invisibility process on Bacon, I found that I was never happier to see an actor disappear. Pity his character proved so resilient in the end.Overall rating: 6 out of 10.

Icy NoAngel This really is a movie to avoid if you still have some common sense. It starts really good, decent plot but at some point it becomes so dumb. If you respect your time you should avoid it, stop in the middle and better go out have a beer. What disappointed me the most is how stupid some scenes are. I'll list them then go on with my life: so if you have a restricted area, that you can get to only with an elevator, that you must type and spell your password, would that elevator have an escape unsecured door at the top just in case you are chased by someone with a flamethrower? I don't think so. If you are trapped in a freezer at -50 degrees, how in the world would you have electricity in there? Say you can't break the above freezer door window with a wrench, but being a women gives you the strength to break a steel bar like a toothpick. And by the way, secured facility elevators can be released, when hanging, just by pressing with your foot on some detacher. These are just a few, if you get the patience to watch it you'll most probably get disgusted. This is one of the worst movies I've ever watched.