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Features: Director's Cut, Widescreen, Aspect Ratio 1.85:1, Dolby Digital (5.1), English, Korean, Subtitled
What would you do if you were invisible? How far would you go? After years of experimentation, Dr. Sebastian Caine, a brilliant but arrogant and egotistical scientist working for the Defense Department, has successfully transformed mammals to an invisible state and brought them back to their original physical form. Determined to achieve the ultimate breakthrough, Caine instructs his team to move on to Phase III: human experimentation. Using himself as the first subject, the invisible Caine finds himself free to do the unthinkable. But Caine's experiment takes an unexpected turn when his team can't bring him back. As the days pass, he grows more and more out of control, doomed to a future without flesh as the Hollow Man. Kevin Bacon, Elisabeth Shue and Josh Brolin star in this intense thriller filled with extreme suspense, terrifying twists and incredible special effects!
"...this film is on fire..." BBC Film Review
"A highly entertaining blockbuster! High-tech, high-gloss, state-of the-art computer effects...a heckuva ride!" Jeff Craig, Sixty Second Preview
"...really spectacular [special effects]--the best since The Matrix." Lou Lumenick, New York Post
"...an eye-popping, stomach-churning stunner." Susan Wloszczyna, USA Today
"Spectacular!" The Wall Street Journal
Editor's Note
A team of scientists is assigned to a secret government research project to experiment with the possibility of invisibility. When they find that one of their formulas works on animals, Dr. Sebastian Caine (Kevin Bacon) violates the rules of the project and tries it on himself. It works: he becomes invisible, but soon after that the team find that the formula is irreversible. He suspects his colleagues, Linda McCay (Elisabeth Shue) and Matt Kensington (Josh Brolin) of sabotaging him: making him invisible forever, and he decides to seek revenge on them.From the director of BASIC INSTINCT and TOTAL RECALL, Paul Verhoeven, comes this new suspense-filled thriller, full of special effects and technical tricks.
Plot Summary
Washington D.C. scientist Sebastian Caine (Kevin Bacon) is under contract with the U.S. government to formulate a serum which will render human beings invisible. When his test serum makes a laboratory gorilla disappear and then successfully brings her back, Caine decides that it is time for him to be the next guinea pig. He and his team are ecstatic when the serum work. When the antidote fails to work as it did on the gorilla, however, Caine finds himself in the initially enviable, but ultimately horrifying predicament of being permanently undetectable to the human eye. Faced with the opportunity to perpetrate any crime he desires without fear of apprehension, Caine gives in to his basest desires. But when he learns that his that his ex-girlfriend and assistant, Linda McKay (Elisabeth Shue), is involved with their fellow co-worker Matt Kensington (Josh Brolin), Caine goes over the deep end, and is willing to kill anyone who tries to stand in his way, including his trusted fellow researchers. Director Paul Verhoeven (BASIC INSTINCT) puts a contemporary spin on the classic INVISIBLE MAN tale, turning it into a funhouse-style stalk-and-slash film with some of the most impressive visual effects the screen has seen.
| Features | 15 Featurettes: Fleshing Out The Hollow Man | | Audio: English PCM 5.1 Surround Sound, Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound | | Documentary: Hollow Man - Anatomy Of A Thriller | | Interactive Menus | | Scene Selection | | Subtitles: English, Korean | | This Is A Blu-Ray DVD Made For Blue-Laser Format Players Which Produce Higher Quality Picture & Sound |
| Entertainment Reviews
 | Hollow Man - DVD Review By: Christopher Null - filmcritic.com DVD Reviews Published on: 10/5/2007 5:03 PM | |
Paul Verhoeven's latest homage to Big Acting and overdirection is light on the naked chicks and heavy on the violence, because, as it turns out, being invisible makes you insane and clearly Mad With Power. And the chicks just get in the way of the killing! guess I'm getting ahead of myself. The Invisible Man gets a millennial upgrade to Hollow Man, when a team of government-contracted scientists led by Kevin Bacon's Sebastian Caine figures out how to "phase shift" (ahem) a person to become completely invisible....read the full review |
| Technical Info
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Release Information
| | Studio: Sony Pictures |
| Release Date: 10/16/2007 |
| Running Time: 119 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 2000 | | Catalog ID: 21522 | | UPC: 00043396215221 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English | | Available Subtitles: English, Korean | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | Widescreen 1.85:1 |
| Cast & Crew | Elisabeth Shue | | Josh Brolin | | Kevin Bacon | | Kim Dickens | | Allan Cameron - Production Designer | | Andrew W. Marlowe - Screenplay | | Dale Allen Pelton - Art Director | | Douglas Wick - Producer | | Gary Scott Thompson - Based On Story By | | Jerry Goldsmith - Original Music By | | Jost Vacano - Cinematographer | | Marion Rosenberg - Executive Producer | | Mark Goldblatt - Editor | | Paul Verhoeven - Director | | Ron Vignone - Editor |
| Awards |
Nominee (2001) | | | MTV Award, Kevin Bacon, Best Villain | | | Oscar, Scott E. Anderson, et. al., Best Effects, Visual Effects |
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| | Professional Reviews | USA Today
"...Verhoeven engages in his trademark twisted kicks...[and] keeps you on edge..." 08/04/2000 p.4EEntertainment Weekly
"...An eminently watchable B-movie nightmare..." 08/11/2000 pp.47-8 Total Film
"...Dazzling effects, some well-timed leap-out-of-your-seat shocks and Bacon in sizzling form..." -- 4 out of 5 stars 10/01/2000 p.82 Box Office
"...The special effects here are awesome..." 10/01/2000 p.74 Movieline's Hollywood Life
"...HOLLOW MAN is for grown-ups....Enjoy [it] as a subversive farce, and you'll be looking at one of the surprise studio films of last year." 02/01/2001 p.84 Chicago Sun-Times
"...[The] effects are astonishing....The movie also has fun with the attempts of the characters to make the invisible visible..." 08/04/2000 p.33 ReelViews 6 of 10
"It is my fondest dream that some day filmmakers will realize that great visual effects do not by themselves equate to a worthwhile motion picture experience. However, until that state of cinematic utopia arrives, audiences will be forced to endure movies like Hollow Man - masterpieces of visual ingenuity that are sadly lacking in many other creative categories. And, while the special effects in Hollow Man are eye-popping, the film is hamstrung by two major flaws - bad acting and an initially smart script that inexplicably devolves into derivative action and pointless violence...So it all comes back to the special effects, which are the most impressive to grace the screen since those in last year's The Phantom Menace...We see a beating heart, inflating lungs, and veins pulsing with newly-pumped blood...Because Hollow Man doesn't have a lot more to offer - there's a seemingly can't miss premise and a strong setup, but the follow-through loses momentum and the climax disintegrates." - James Berardinelli
Reel.com 7 of 10
"Director Paul Verhoeven has made quite a mark with sci-fi/action combos, bringing to screen Arnold Schwarzenegger's suspense-filled Martian foray, Total Recall, the critically lambasted but effects-laden and raucous Starship Troopers, and the futuristic genre classic Robocop. But Verhoeven has also helmed the Sharon Stone-launching ""eroti-thriller"" Basic Instinct...And in his latest tale about a scientist's experimentation gone awry, the director seemingly combines his taste for fantastic fiction with his penchant for toying with T & A -- regrettably to the detriment of the potentially compelling tale at hand...But more disappointing is that Hollow Man isn't much fun. It begins with inventive credits and a visceral bang (or, rather, bite), but it never again reaches that level of chilling intensity. Even in the third act, when the film enters action/survival mode, Sebastian stalks his victims along the usual murder-in-reverse-film-credits program, the pacing is dull, and the claustrophobic set becomes tedious." - Mary Kalin-Casey
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