I enjoyed Totall Recall, Starship Troopers and of course the classic Robocop. I really did. But this one...
Hollow Man could have been waaaay better. All the 'usual' clichés are here: The corny one-liners, the use of medical terms because they sound professional, the computer screens with impossible depictions of 'security programs' (one scene had me laughing out loud, just remember the words 'stable' and 'unstable', then you should know what I'm referring to). All this I was willing to accept had the story or characters been any good. But they aren't, they're just a substandard rehash of other, better movies. No attempt is made to let us care about the people that, in the latter part of the movie, are dropping like flies(deaths that can be seen coming miles ahead), they're just 'innocent scientists' and Sebastian Caine, the one who becomes invisible, is the bad guy.
But that's still not the biggest problem...the biggest problem lies in the fact that this movie thinks it's being serious. Verhoeven's other sci-fi works certainly didn't!! Hollow Man tries to be somewhat true, serious entertainment, but all the clichés only make it look like a really bad film, which, in the end, it is.
This movie has a lot of special effects. That's of course the reason why anyone would see it in the first place. The scenes with the gorilla and Caine reappearing and disappearing are the best, without a doubt. One small thing: While watching the video I noticed a bit of unfilled greenscreen at the bottom, during the scene where the gorilla is brought back. It's only proof of how fast this movie was supposed to be made, and that it was made only to cash in some quick bucks at the box office.
In the end, crap. Try not to waste money on it unless you have to.
Hollow Man could have been waaaay better. All the 'usual' clichés are here: The corny one-liners, the use of medical terms because they sound professional, the computer screens with impossible depictions of 'security programs' (one scene had me laughing out loud, just remember the words 'stable' and 'unstable', then you should know what I'm referring to). All this I was willing to accept had the story or characters been any good. But they aren't, they're just a substandard rehash of other, better movies. No attempt is made to let us care about the people that, in the latter part of the movie, are dropping like flies(deaths that can be seen coming miles ahead), they're just 'innocent scientists' and Sebastian Caine, the one who becomes invisible, is the bad guy.
But that's still not the biggest problem...the biggest problem lies in the fact that this movie thinks it's being serious. Verhoeven's other sci-fi works certainly didn't!! Hollow Man tries to be somewhat true, serious entertainment, but all the clichés only make it look like a really bad film, which, in the end, it is.
This movie has a lot of special effects. That's of course the reason why anyone would see it in the first place. The scenes with the gorilla and Caine reappearing and disappearing are the best, without a doubt. One small thing: While watching the video I noticed a bit of unfilled greenscreen at the bottom, during the scene where the gorilla is brought back. It's only proof of how fast this movie was supposed to be made, and that it was made only to cash in some quick bucks at the box office.
In the end, crap. Try not to waste money on it unless you have to.
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