Rude, crude jokes and sight gags kept the movie from tripping over its own weight. Where Universal’s monsters are concerned, let’s hope we see more of its like. Kevin Bacon, Elisabeth Shue, and a pre-Thanos Josh Brolin gave the cast a huge injection of star power. While The Mummy exhausted your eyes, Whannell widens them with its controlled precision. Wonder Woman looks up, surprised as hell and says 'What the hell was that.' And the Invisible Man replies 'I dunno know, but it sure hurt like hell.' Sebastian: You know, that could be the last. Other MVPs include Benjamin Wallfisch, whose score throbs with sustained menace, and Director of Photography Stefan Duscio, whose deep images force us to crane in close. In Paul Verhoevens appropriately shallow Hollow Man, Kevin Bacon plays a bad-boy egotistical scientist who heads up a double-secret government team. The serum to make him invisible works layer by layer. And one or two elaborate developments stretch credulity, raising more questions than answers.īut Moss maintains her hold on us, walking a fine line between self-certainty and nerve’s-edge fear without once losing her footing. Elisabeth Shue confronts Kevin Bacon on the difficulty of dealing with him in his invisible state. Compared to Rains’ deliberately droll tussles with British bobbies in James Whale’s 1933’s adaptation, one OTT police ruckus here is unwittingly silly. Kevin Bacon, Elisabeth Shue and Josh Brolin star in this intense thriller filled with extreme suspense, terrifying twists and incredible special effects. Other audaciously nasty twists emerge in public spaces, though Whannell stumbles over his confidence in the second half. As the days pass, he grows more and more out of control, doomed to a future without flesh as the Hollow Man. Hollow Man is a 2000 sci-fi film directed by Paul Verhoeven, starring Kevin Bacon as a scientist who develops a serum that makes him invisible. The bedsheet scene is ingenious, the punch out of nowhere brutal. Dead space and dark corridors are well-used to prime our expectations meanwhile, horror clichés are smartly tweaked to max the suspense and shock value. With steady character work banking our investment, Whannell tightens the screws to scare.
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