Scientist Kevin Bacon, while on a strict diet of Twinkies, develops a serum that
can make you invisible. After some animal testing, he decides to try it
out on himself and guess what? It works! Unfortunately, they can't
figure out a way to make him visible again. During this time Dr.` Bacon
descends into madness and eventually starts killing people.
Coming from the director Paul Verhoeven, the man behind STARSHIP TROOPERS and
ROBOCOP, I was hoping that he would have a fresh and unique vision of the invisibility
story, but no, HOLLOW MAN is just you're standard stuff and by the end it's
pretty much a weak slasher film with Bacon stalking people around a science
lab.
Impressive special effects (for the time), Elisabeth Shue with short hair,
Twinkies, Bacon listening to horrible music, a tasteless joke about Superman attempting to rape Wonder Woman, that one woman from "Nip/Tuck"
topless, messy science, silly story that gets sillier as it goes along, old computers,
average pace.
Worth a watch if you're really bored, but overall it's pretty forgettable.