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Hollow Man [DVD] [2000]

Kevin Bacon , Elisabeth Shue , Paul Verhoeven    Suitable for 18 years and over   DVD
3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (36 customer reviews)
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  • Actors: Kevin Bacon, Elisabeth Shue, Josh Brolin, Kim Dickens, Greg Grunberg
  • Directors: Paul Verhoeven
  • Writers: Andrew W. Marlowe, Gary Scott Thompson
  • Producers: Alan Marshall, Douglas Wick, Kenneth J. Silverstein, Marion Rosenberg, Stacy Lumbrezer
  • Format: PAL
  • Language: English, Hungarian
  • Subtitles: English, Hindi, Swedish, Turkish, Danish, Hungarian, Polish, Icelandic, Dutch, Arabic, Finnish, Czech, Greek
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9 - 1.85:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 18
  • Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent.
  • DVD Release Date: 26 Mar 2001
  • Run Time: 112 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (36 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B000053W5H
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 11,628 in Film & TV (See Top 100 in Film & TV)

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In Paul Verhoeven's appropriately shallow Hollow Man, Kevin Bacon plays a bad-boy egotistical scientist who heads up a double-secret government team experimenting with turning life-forms invisible. How do we know he's a bad boy? Because he (a) wears a leather overcoat, (b) compares himself to God, (c) drives a sports car and (d) spies on his comely next-door neighbour while eating Twinkies. Sadly, this is the most character development anyone gets in this undernourished action/sci-fi thriller, which boasts some phenomenal, seamless and Oscar-worthy computer effects and some amazingly ridiculous plot twists. After experimenting rather ruthlessly on a menagerie of lab animals, Bacon finally cracks the code that will turn the invisible gorillas, dogs and so on back into their visible forms, and promptly volunteers as a human guinea pig. Sure enough he is rendered invisible, organ by organ, vein by vein, and then proceeds to spy on his female co-workers in the bathroom and molest his comely next-door neighbour.

Soon, Bacon is thoroughly psychotic, and it's up to Elisabeth Shue (Bacon's co-worker and ex-girlfriend) and hunky Josh Brolin (her current snuggle bunny) to defeat the invisible man, who's picking off the science team one by one. You'd think this would be a prime opportunity for copious amounts of cheesy sex and aggressive violence--which Verhoeven served up so well and so exuberantly in Starship Troopers and Basic Instinct--but if anything, the director seems to tone down the proceedings, and really, who wants a muted Paul Verhoeven movie? --Mark Englehart, Amazon.com

On the DVD: In the audio commentary with director Paul Verhoeven and star Kevin Bacon, Hollow Man scriptwriter Andrew Marlowe reveals that the story had been in development for some nine years before it got made, and that he had worked on it for "a number of years". An amazing revelation, given that the main attraction of this DVD is surely the cutting-edge special effects and the fascinating behind-the-scenes deconstruction of them. The DVD viewer cannot help but wonder how anyone could have spent years on a script that looks like it was cobbled together over a weekend as an excuse to play around with some really neat CGI effects. The various documentary features on the disc break down all the key FX scenes in exhaustive detail, showing the creative blend of live action and CGI and all the painstaking methods by which it was achieved. Director Verhoeven is appropriately profiled as "Hollywood's Mad Scientist" in the "Anatomy of a Thriller" featurette (in the commentary he makes a comparison with Hitchcock's Rear Window that only serves to underline the gulf between his ambitious vision and its execution). Elsewhere, legendary composer Jerry Goldsmith provides a commentary to his music, which gives hope to fans that he will now do the same for some of his better scores. There are deleted scenes, trailers, storyboards and a really neat menu interface to round off an enjoyable DVD package. Anamorphic picture and sound quality are impeccable. --Mark Walker

Product Description

Actors: Kevin Bacon, Elisabeth Shue, Josh Brolin, Kim Dickens, Greg Grunberg
Director: Paul Verhoeven
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
By Lawyeraau HALL OF FAME TOP 500 REVIEWER
Format:DVD
This is a reasonably entertaining movie with stunning visual effects. It is really a modern day version of a mad scientist movie.
The plot is a little thin. It basically revolves around Kevin Bacon's character, Dr. Sebastian Caine, an egotistical, self absorbed scientific genius who, during the course of his work for the Department of Defense, has managed to render animals to an invisible state and return them to visibility. He does not reveal to the Department of Defense, his financial benefactor, that his work has succeeded. Instead, he ignores protocols and decides that the time has come to take his experimentation to the next level and try it on a human being, himself.

To make a long story short, Caine goes ahead with the human experimentation, only to find that he is unable to replicate the success he had with the laboratory animals and render himself visible again, once rendered invisible. He begins to deteriorate mentally, sinking into an inexplicable and bizarre maniacal state until he is totally out of control.

Moreover, Caine, the acknowledged genius of a scientific assemblage, is aware that he is losing it. Yet, he does nothing to assist in the discovery of what went wrong with the experiment and what could be done to correct the problem. He, instead, inexplicably leaves the solution to the self-acknowledged lesser capabilities of his colleagues. This simply does not compute with the film's portrayal of Caine's inherent character.

Moreover, there is also virtually no explanation for Bacon's rapid descent into apparent madness, where his antics range from naughty and not nice to totally evil and depraved. This is a big hole in the story, and Bacon's character reflects this omission, as the viewer is not moved to feel any compassion for him. The character of Caine is, in essence, just a mechanism used to facilitate a lot of action scenes with great special effects.

Therein lies the rub. Caine, as a character, has no redeeming value or quality. In other words he is no Jekyll and Hyde. He is just Hyde. This is why, I believe the movie has been so panned by most viewers, even though they may not have articulated it as such.

With such great visual effects, I am also surprised that more attention was not paid to production details. A latex mask created for Caine does not appear to have breathing holes for the nostrils. The film also occasionally segues into the absurd. In one scene, the ease with which plastic bags of blood were ripped open with one character's bare hands defied reality. I have a harder time ripping open a plastic bag of carrots. In another scene, Caine's character is torched with a flame thrower over, and over, and over again. Yet, like the energizer bunny, he keeps on going. This was simply not believable. The film is fraught with a number of moments of implausibility.

If you are willing to suspend belief and just sit back and accept the movie at face value, however, one should still be able to reasonably enjoy this movie, as it does, despite the plot holes, have its moments, and the visual effects are dazzling.

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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful
By V'ger TOP 500 REVIEWER
Format:Blu-ray|Amazon Verified Purchase
This movie has always attracted rather negative reviews, mainly due to the classic Hollywood-style "Halloween"-like ending, where the Hollow Man suddenly turns into the "Fireproof, Self-cleaning, Concussion-resistant, More-lives-than-a-videogame Berserk Man"; not to mention the overuse of the "horror movie logic", demanding that large groups of armed "heroes", easily capable of overwhelming even an invisible Alien, invariably end up splitting themselves in groups of maximum 2 people, always cornering themselves in tight quarters and dead ends, where they can be conveniently slaughtered by the villain with his/her/its bare hands/claws/appendages...
Nevertheless, if you are willing to accept this uttermost suspension of disbelief (which is almost always required before seeing ANY movie of this kind) and you just concentrate on more "technical" aspects, like a constantly growing pace and tension in the screenplay, top notch visual effects (for the times) and sound editing, convincing acting (see the funny "making of" part regarding the _very_ specific acting directions the actors were given from the director...), great cinematography, and a SUPERB, tension-rising, spine-chilling score by the late Jerry Goldsmith, (which was worth the admission ticket alone), you might be surprised at how _entertaining_ and actually _good_ this unpretentious sci-fi/horror/thriller can be (in my opinion, at least...).
That said, for the fans of this movie, the video and audio quality of this Blu-Ray version are among the highest I have experienced so far: the image is perfectly clean, with incredible sharpness and contrast, and only a negligible amount of grain (which is a nice surprise, considered that the movie was shot nine years ago). Actually, the images are SO detailed, that in some scenes you can even spot the slight separation between CGI FX and the actual film plates (e.g. the hand of Elisabeth Shue on the digital gorilla fur in one of the first scenes).
The audio, available also in uncompressed PCM, is absolutely astounding, with great separation, power and clarity of surround channels in sound effects (the explosion at 1h:41m is a perfect test for your speakers, your windows and the patience of your wife/neighbors!) and a perfect balance of the haunting, frightening Goldsmith's score.
The only negative point of this release, in my opinion, is that it lacks both commentaries from the director Verhoeven and Jerry Goldsmith himself (a rarity for his fans) which were included on the DVD version, hence the missing star. On the other hand, this version includes some minor cuts that were absent in the standard edition.
Recommended at this price, even just as test disc for your audio/video system. (Even more recommended is the music score on CD, maybe the last "classic" that Jerry Goldsmith left to his fans!) Hollow Man
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant movie 17 Mar 2013
Format:DVD|Amazon Verified Purchase
Bit of a shot in the dark but well worth it. Kevin Bacon as an actor was not fully explored to his potential though
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
4.0 out of 5 stars I LIKED IT
Enjoyable remake from 2000.Not sure whether region 2 is cut but check it out just in case.Great score and listen all the way to the end.
Published 1 month ago by Vlad the emailer
5.0 out of 5 stars I LOVE LOVE IT!!
A movie I can watch again and again and thoroughly enjoy, Kevin Bacon is brilliant and the other actors gel beautifully, excellent viewing value for money highly recommended
Published 2 months ago by Thelma L. Workman
5.0 out of 5 stars "..VIOLENT SCI-FI THRILLER.."
This is a brilliant sci-fi movie very well made by Paul Verhoeven the awesome director of other cult classics like Robocop, Total recal and Basic instinct. Read more
Published 12 months ago by S. Drury
5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome, apart from the childish finale
The US military wants to discover a way of turning people invisible, and then back to visible. The research team is led by a brilliant but very arrogant Sebastian Caine. Read more
Published on 7 May 2011 by Printul Noptilor
4.0 out of 5 stars It may be just another version of an old theme
This story is loosly based on H G Wells' book. The scientists are in a modern facility the animal invisibilty experiments worked fine, then one eager scientist had to try it on his... Read more
Published on 29 Dec 2010 by Mike
5.0 out of 5 stars Looking at the Hollow Man
I enjoyed this disc and it was nice to see the added extensions to the plot that helped enhance the story. Read more
Published on 7 Mar 2010 by M. Craig
4.0 out of 5 stars Kevin Bacon turns a sex maniac.
It,s a good movie with many scenes of sex and nice girls.Kevin Bacon is spectacular.Quality picture and dts sound are very good.
Published on 2 Mar 2010 by Jose Antonio Goncalves
5.0 out of 5 stars the greatest invisable film todate horror thriller exciting
THIS IS A SUPURB SPECIAL EFFECTS LADEN FILM THAT HAS NOT BEEN BETTERED VISUALLY STUNNING.KEVIN BACON IS VERY MENACING AS THE BLOKE YOU CAN'T SEE. Read more
Published on 12 Jan 2010 by R. Lloyd
3.0 out of 5 stars Shallow but plausible and well acted
I should lay my cards on the table and admit that I thoroughly dislike Paul Verhoeven's films (well certainly "Starship Troopers" and "Total Recall" - who else could ruin a... Read more
Published on 5 May 2009 by T. D. Welsh
3.0 out of 5 stars Alternative version of the Invisible Man
Film is mainly about a group of scientists who design a chemical that can make people and animals Invisible which is what they test it on at the beginning of the film then they... Read more
Published on 23 Dec 2007 by Jay
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