Grade:  D

Director:  Paul Verhoeven		Released:  August 2000
Writer:  Andrew W. Marlowe		MPAA Rating:  R
Players:  Kevin Bacon, Elisabeth Shue		Running time:  112 minutes

Ratings System

If you want to see a cool movie about an invisible man, check out 1933's The Invisible Man.  Even 1985's School Spirit is every bit as good as Hollow Man (okay, so technically the guy in School Spirit is a ghost, but ... same difference).  I wish Kevin Bacon had just become a peeping tom for the remainder of the film after escaping from the lab.  That would have been much more entertaining than what we ended up with.

The visual effects are all well and good, but the script has no depth.  What reason is offered to explain why Bacon would go whacko and start killing people?  I didn't believe it for a second.  And I thought Hollywood finally gave up on the old "villain appears dead, but comes back to life for one final attack!" routine.  Hollow Man revived it.

What the hell happened to Elisabeth Shue?  Was she always this bad an actress and I just didn't notice?  I thought I remembered her giving some good performances in other movies, maybe I was wrong.  She looks so uncomfortably wooden I would think this was her first movie.

- crocoPuffs