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Hollow Man |
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picture above from www.spe.sony.com/movies/hollowman/ |
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Plot: Sabastian Caine (Kevin Bacon) is an arrogant scientist who leads a team on a top secret project involving quantum physics to develop the ability to make a human being invisable. Although Sabastian may be brilliant his workers have a hard time dealing with him due to his lack of social skills, and disregard for rules. However, when he goes against the government his main assistants go along with it, so he can test the invisibility for himself. Elisabeth Shue plays his x-girlfriend who is an assistant to Sabastian who is now seeing another assistant without his knowledge. When Sabastian turns invisable he uses that fact against her, and uses his "power" to do many other evil deeds. |
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Rating: Poor
Distributor: Columbia Pictures
Rating: R
Genre: Thriller
Release Date: August 4, 2000
Director: Paul Verhoeven
Cast: Elisabeth Shue, Kevin Bacon, Josh Brolin, Kim Dickens, and Greg Grunberg. |
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Critique: This film didn't start off so bad. It had an interesting premise, and although it had no explanation of anything it still kept my attention. As the film progressed it explained less and less only using the word "quantum" to make sense of everything as if it was some magical keyword that glued all the odds and ends together. As I have noted before you can show something that can't happen in real life and still make a reasonable explanation of it using known terms, but the screenwriters for Hollow Man refused.
The acting went from alright to bad, to worse, to so bad you laugh. Director Paul Verhoeven who made Robo Cop and Starship Troopers ('Troopers' the stinker of the bunch) showed us nothing, but a little game he played called 'lets make a vehicle for special effects and use a formulaic script to take short cuts'. Kevin Bacon did an alright job compared to his coworkers. Elisabeth Shue who garnered an academy award nomination for Leaving Las Vegas slept through the movie.
The climax and the last 45 minutes or so of this movie were so funny, so terrible, not to mention predictable that I laughed and laughed for minutes at a time. (Spoiler) Bacon rose from the dead like 5 times, and that was pretty damn funny.
Althogether a horrid movie, with a few glimmering scenes led by special effects or other minor contributions that didn't make much of a difference at the end. One of the worst endings I have ever seen.
by supernothignman
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