Hollow Man

Columbia Pictures | Release Date: August 4, 2000

4.9	USER SCORE Mixed or average reviews based on 401 Ratings

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Coincidental86May 13, 2015

Total Recall and Robocop are classic action movies. This movie doesn't even come close to the quality of these two movies. If you want to see a great thriller with Kevin Bacon watch Stir Of Echoes. Hollow Man has nothing unique or inventive.Total Recall and Robocop are classic action movies. This movie doesn't even come close to the quality of these two movies. If you want to see a great thriller with Kevin Bacon watch Stir Of Echoes. Hollow Man has nothing unique or inventive. One of the weakest movies of 2000 and of the director's career, avoid if you have never seen it or heard of it.… Expand

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diogomendesNov 29, 2014

Apart from its confessedly impressive visual effects, "Hollow Man" is just a typical horror film that offers a weak script and reprehensible dialogue.

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FilipeNetoDec 17, 2018

I confess I expected a bit more from this movie. The script was promising, with a good initial premise: an experiment in humans that works well, but ends up failing because of the ego and arrogance of the person used to do all the tests, theI confess I expected a bit more from this movie. The script was promising, with a good initial premise: an experiment in humans that works well, but ends up failing because of the ego and arrogance of the person used to do all the tests, the same scientist who had coordinated animal experiments previously and who had shown, at that time, few scruples and little concern for the ethical and deontological issues of his profession. Add to that a high dose of misogyny and you will make the main character a potential villain, to whom superhuman power is given: invisibility.

The problem with all this is that everything ended up being terribly underdeveloped. Aside from what I said, there is no script or story, all summing up with a hunt for the invisible man. Another problem is that most of the characters are empty and there is a good deal of clichés and predictability throughout the film. The romantic sub-plots outlined in the film are perhaps the worst part, as far as plot is concerned. Paul Verhoeven is a satisfatory director, who missed the opportunity to make a good movie. Kevin Bacon impressed me positively, especially considering that I have never particularly enjoyed the work done by the actor. He was able to become really bad at this character, something the character demanded of him. Elisabeth Shue tried to do a good job, but she did not have the material for it.

Visually, the film is good ... it has good cinematography and a good CGI (considering the time when the film was made, of course), good special effects and sound, good action scenes and suspense. The soundtrack, discreet but effective, is a good addition. But all this, while positive, is not enough to compensate for the lack of a better, more developed script, with more material for supporting characters to do something more than to talk.… Expand

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DavidS.Jul 18, 2009

Only interesting if you are a student of Hollywood special effects. Otherwise it's quite boring and a little perverse in its themes and over-the-top gore.

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Lord_VoltaJan 9, 2022

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Disturbing.

Someone read The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells and thought they should make the main character a sexually abusive boss. This character then turns into an invisible terminator and starts killing off his employees.

What could have been a critique of "look the other way" Hollywood slips into a cheap action flic.… Expand

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JamesT.Dec 28, 2006

This movie has all the bad elements of a B rated horror flick. However it's not snakes on a plane bad, more like snakes in a pit of boringness. It doesn't even have the guilty sense of bad movie watching pleasure. Neophytes who This movie has all the bad elements of a B rated horror flick. However it's not snakes on a plane bad, more like snakes in a pit of boringness. It doesn't even have the guilty sense of bad movie watching pleasure. Neophytes who like bad movies would really have to dig deep to enjoy this one.… Expand

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