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What would you do if you were invisible? How far would you go? After years of experimentation, Dr. Sebastian Caine (Bacon), 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.
"The special effects...are eye-popping..." James Berardinelli's ReelViews
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 | Animated Menus | | Production Notes | | Scene Selections with Motion Images | | VFX Picture in Picture Comparisons | | Theatrical Trailers | | Talent Files | | Isolated Music Score with Jerry Goldsmith Commentary | | HBO Making-Of: Anatomy of a Thriller | | Fleshing Out the Hollow Man: 15 Behind-the-Scenes Featurettes | | DVD Weblink | | Widescreen Presentation | | Subtitles: English, French | | Paul Verhoeven, Kevin Bacon and Andrew W. Marlowe Commentary | | Deleted Scenes with Paul Verhoeven Commentary |
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Release Information
| | Studio: Columbia Tri-Star |
| Release Date: 6/18/2007 |
| Running Time: 112 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 2000 | | Catalog ID: 05072 | | UPC: 00043396050723 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English, French Dubbed | | Available Subtitles: English, French | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | 1.85:1 |
| Cast & Crew
| Awards |
Oscar (2001) | | | Nominee, Best 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 Sixty Second Preview 8 of 10
A highly entertaining blockbuster! High-tech, high-gloss, state-of the-art computer effects. It's a heckuva ride! - Jeff Craig
BBC On Line 6 of 10
...When it peeks into the psyche of a megalomaniac scientist (Kevin Bacon), this film is on fire...
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