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Lionsgate 4 film DVD
This is a film I hadn't thought about in over 10 years. I saw it back when it first hit VHS. Enjoyed it and then promptly forgot about it.So it was last summer,my Aunt Midget had asked me to put together a wishlist on Amazon. I saw for $7.50 a pack with 4 films. Hollow Man,Hollow man 2,I had no idea there was a sequel,Fortress 2,which I really need to rewatch and review soon and The Harvest,which I still need to watch.
I was visiting a friend. Who doesn't have cable,so I always bring them over stacks of stuff to watch. I brought this pack over because they had mentioned how much they loved Fortress and had never seen Fortress 2.
I always thought of this film as a continuation of a trend that started in the 90s with Bram Stroker's Dracula. Where the classic Universal monsters were taken and updated for a modern audience. With Hollow Man,Paul Verhoeven took the Claude Rains classic "The Invisible Man" and made it sleazier.
Kevin Bacon is good as the titular Hollow man. And the always beautiful Elizabeth Shue makes a great heroine/final girl.The invisible FX work is great,and the rest of the cast are all good.
Bacon plays a scientist that discovers a formula that turns whoever takes it invisible. But this also seems to cause him to go insane.
My only real complaint is the last 10 minutes. Where it seems Bacon is not only invisible but also can not die. If this had come out in the 70s it would have been the perfect second feature of a double feature at the drive in.
Hollow Man gets a B.
