Description:
Kevin Bacon plays a bad-boy egotistical
scientist who heads up a double-secret government team experimenting with
turning life-forms invisible. 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. Does
it work on humans? Faster than you can say "six degrees," Mr. Bacon
appoints himself human guinea pig, strapping down for an injection of
fluorescent-colored serum. —
Amazon.com
If
you were to believe Hollow Man, then all scientists either look
as hot as Elizabeth Shue and Josh Brolin. They drive flashy sports cars
and obviously do a lot of workouts at the gym to look as buffed as Kevin
Bacon does. Bacon must spend really a lot of time at the gym, since
not only does he accomplish some near impossible feats of physical strength,
he is as healthy as they come and is incredibly difficult to kill off.
I bet he and other mad slashers such as Jason Vorhees (Friday the 13th)
and Mike Myers (Halloween) go to the same gym.
Hollow Man is the Memoirs of an Invisible
Man as written by Jason Vorhees. This isn't very interesting to be
honest. Just like those other slasher movies I mentioned, Hollow Man
features characters who do incredibly stupid things that makes one shake
one's head in utter disbelief. "Let's not split up," one character
exclaims. What do they do in three seconds flat? They split up - easier
to be killed off by Jason, er I mean, the Kevin Bacon character that way. It's hard to believe that these idiots can find the bathroom, never mind
invent human invisibility (by phasing objects out of the quantum
plane or something. No doubt they've watched a lot of Star
Trek.)
Just
like said slasher movies, Hollow Man repeats the false Fatal
Attraction ending of "think the killer is dead? Yawn, well, he/she/it
isn't" ad infinitum until you wish you were rather watching the first
Terminator movie in which this thing sort was
done better, but even back then seemed pretty stale.
Now, with director
Paul (RoboCop, Total Recall)
Verhoeven at the helm one would expect some of his ironic and black-humored
cleverness. Someone described his (much superior) Starship
Troopers as a smart movie that pretends to be dumb. Well, Hollow
Man is a dumb movie that isn't anything else whatsoever.
