Rating of
2.5/4
Kevin Bacon at his devilish best....
MovieAddict - wrote on 09/09/12
What would you do if you had the possibility to be invisible? Would you save the world? Or would you...go insane?
Kevin Bacon plays Sebastian Caine, an egotistical but brilliant scientist who is working on a serum to make living things invisible. He works on this project with his ex-girlfriend Linda McKay (Elisabeth Shue) and Matthew Kensington (Josh Brolin) her secret lover and insists on being the first human guinea pig for the project, ever mindful of the glory angle. Problems arise when Sebastian is made invisible and discovers his process to be made visible again failed.
Kevin Bacon always seems to play a great bad guy and it is no difference here when because of his tampering with Nature and his gradual seduction by the power he controls, he finally gets his just desserts when he starts preying on his own science team.
I've always enjoyed Paul Verhoven's direction - Robocop and Total Recall are two of my favorites - and in Hollow Man he doesn't fail to bring in the chills and thrills once more.
