2.5/4  Bacon didn't sizzle in this one
I was looking for a lot more to come from this movie. The cast was good the plot could have been better. The invisible man thing...well it was ok. Glad i didn't see it in the theater, would have been a waste. Expected more from Kevin B... (read full)

2.5/4  Think You're Alone? Think Again.
I thought this film was pretty good. Unfortunately, somewhere along the lineit turns in to a predictable B-grade slasher. This could, and should, have been much better than it is. They ran out of ideas and decided to just kill everyone off... (read full)

1/4  55%
Action: 3/3 + Comedy: 0/2 + Good vs Evil: 0.5/1 + Love/Sex: 1/1 + Special Effects: 0.5/1 + Plot: 0.5/1 + Music: 0/1 = 5.5/10 or 55%.

It's an interesting, albeit used, premise. Sometimes Verhoeven's infatuation with sin, absolute power,... (read full)

1.5/4  Hollow Man Quick Review
I never met an invisible man movie that I liked... including Hollow Man. Of course, there was the gratuitous use of smoking to cleverly reveal the invisible man, earning the film a SmokeScreeners rating of 3 Butts. www.smokescreeners.org

1.5/4  Hollow Man Quick Review
I don't know if this was supposed to be some kind of hip, new remake on the Invisible Man, but it doesn't work at all. You couldn't pay me to sit through this jumbled mess again.

5/5 A suspenseful entertaining thriller!
  by Prissy (Woodbridge, VA USA)
I'm not sure why everyone is dissecting this movie. Its not Shakespeare people! This movie is nothing more than an entertaining thriller. Sebastian (Kevin Bacon) plays a genius scientist who uses himself as a guinea pig when his science team successfully figure out how to bring back animals who are made invisible. Sebastian and his team in a meeting with the Pentagon fail to tell them that they have figured out how to bring animals back from invisbility. In other words, Sebastian want to keep that knowledge and power to himself despite the government funding his research. Sebastian then volunteers to become invisible as the first human guinea pig. Sebastian is successfully made invisible after nearly dying on the table, but once his viatals are stablized, the team is unable to bring him back to normal. Days and weeks pass then all hell breaks lose. The movie clearly explains why Sebastian goes crazy but everyone posting here is questioning it. After Sebastian's team fail to bring him back to normal and he is locked in the facility, he starts to lose his mind, conscience, morals, everthing. Get it? Hollow Man. Anyway it's the affects of the invisibility serum that causes psychosis which I thought is clearly explained in the film. After Sebastian sneaks away from the facility they warn Sebastian. In his anger he kills a dog in the facility and that's when Elisabeth Shue and Josh Brolin decide to tell the Pentagon and the rest of the team finds out the Pentagon doesn't know about Sebastian becoming invisible. At this point Sebastian is completely psychotic and starts killing everyone who knows (the science team) to stay invisible. I watch this movie every time I catch it on HBO and I'm buying the DVD when I get a chance. I enjoy this movie and of course watching Josh Brolin. Elisabeth Shue plays Sebastian's former girlfriend and the one who saves the day in the film without giving it away too much. I love this movie and the great performances in it and don't get what all the negative comments are about. If you want to see a thrilling movie that gets more fast paced and exciting as it nears its climax then I recommend this movie. I love it.

5/5 love it
  by David A. Smith (Webberville, Mi, USA)
Hollow man is an awesome movie loved it. Kevin Bacon is awesome. this movie is really good. recommend it for everyone i don't know why everyone is putting it down

1/5 This movie is a big disappointment!
  by Harmonybee (United States)
The trailer made this movie out to be better than it really was. This movie is the only movie I can say is worse than Troll 2 at least Troll 2 didn't have the pretense of being an awesome movie. This movie had a theatrical release and an awesome trailer so there is no excuse for this movie to suck!
Hollowman had awesome special effects and high caliber actors how come it's such a worthless piece of crap?
Oh because the script much like the title is practically non-existent!

3/5 Shallow but watchable and well acted
  by T. D. Welsh (Basingstoke, Hampshire UK)
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 Heinlein and a PKD?) I think his approach to making films is condescending, meretricious, and cynical; and I don't relish being patronised.

"Hollow Man" displays all the standard symptoms of advanced Verhoeven Syndrome: shallow plot, no character development, gratuitous violence, and a contempt for the laws of science that almost amounts to an organised campaign to subvert SF as a genre. Witness the dramatic idea (stolen directly from H.G. Wells, of course) of making animals and human beings completely invisible, without the slightest shred of scientific explanation except for some mumbo-jumbo about quantum shifts. Making organisms vanish is done by injecting them with a lurid orange liquid injected from an immense hypodermic that looks like a Fisher-Price toy (but only after it's been "irradiated"). Making the creatures visible again calls for the identical process - but this time with a bright blue liquid! (I'm not making this up, honest, although I might have got the colours transposed).

Bacon, who acts as brilliantly as usual, is represented as not too tightly wrapped at the best of times, and when his cunning plan to become world-famous by being the first human to vanish and reappear goes pear-shaped, he sulks and then goes psycho. Cue an outbreak of picturesque violence loaded with themes stolen from here, there, and everywhere - music reminiscent of "Predator", hidden menaces like those in "Aliens", and of course a huge explosion that hurls a fireball up a lift shaft after Shue and Brolin like those in every other "thriller" for years. Naturally the fire almost catches them, washing over Shue's legs without crisping them or even, indeed, giving her mild sunburn. (The same explosion hurls the lift itself clean past them faster than a BMW on the M40, but there seems to be no shock wave at all). The fireball recedes down the shaft but remains on active duty, chuntering quietly to itself, ready to consume Bacon's body as he hurtles back down (whoops, sorry, spoiler, but some things really can't be spoiled any more than they already are). Brolin is run clean through the guts by some sharp metal object, then semi-frozen, and seems to be at death's door - after which he runs, fights, climbs about a hundred yards of vertical steel ladder, falls a few yards onto a roof, fights some more, and is last seen walking away quite normally, arm-in-arm with Shue.

Yet, even as you wonder what second-hand trick or stunt will come next, you have to admire the acting and even the psychological insight of it all. How many of us have known bosses like the nut-case Bacon depicts? Fortunately, your boss probably can't make himself invisible in order to stalk you - yet, anyway. Imagine how much fun that would be!

1/5 Evil Wins
  by Woodlandtrails
In real life good and evil are not completely black or white but colored in shades of grey. Kevin Bacon's character was a "good guy" but his scientific ego made him slightly grey along with the others on his staff. After their invisibility experiment worked on him, he went insane and was definitely in the black (evil) zone.

Still, it was hard not to feel sorry for him given there were a couple of scientists more evil than he was. They were not only on scientific ego trips but decided to treat him as a lab rat.

This movie was nauseating because the less evil scientists all die and the most evil scientists live. At least Bacon could claim insanity as a reason for his evilness.