A brilliant scientist's discovery renders him invisible, but transforms him into an omnipotent, dangerous megalomaniac.A brilliant scientist's discovery renders him invisible, but transforms him into an omnipotent, dangerous megalomaniac.A brilliant scientist's discovery renders him invisible, but transforms him into an omnipotent, dangerous megalomaniac.
- Nominated for 1 Oscar
- 7 wins & 15 nominations total
- Boy in Car
- (as Jeffrey George Scaperotta)
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- TriviaAn anatomically correct, totally working computer model was created of Kevin Bacon's entire body - down to the last capillary. The 3-D model has since been donated to scientific researchers.
- GoofsWhen the latex mask is being poured over Caine's face, it's smooth on top as if he were bald, instead of getting caught up in his hair.
- Quotes
Sebastian: Did you ever hear the one about Superman and Wonder Woman?
Matt: Stop clowning around
Sebastian: No come on this is a good one. Superman's flying around metropolis and he's horny as hell. He's checking out the rooftops and all of a sudden he sees Wonder Woman sunning herself on the roof of the Justice League. I mean she is lying there buck naked and spread eagle. Looks like she wants to get fucked right? So Superman starts thinking to himself, "Man I gotta get myself some of that wonderpussy." and then he realizes that he can fly down, do a little fast pumping and be gone before she even sees him. Because he's Superman. he's faster than a speeding bullet, right? So Superman, he swoops down, he fucks her so quick, she doesn't even see him. Wonderwoman sits up and says, "What the fuck was that?" and The Invisible Man says "I don't know but my asshole is killing me." That's funny right?
Matt: hmm
Sebastian: C'mon, guys. That's funny.
- Alternate versionsThe Director's Cut is ~7min longer than the Theatrical release, mostly incorporated deleted scenes previously available as home video bonus extras. The Director's Cut is Unrated.
- ConnectionsEdited into Saw II (2005)
- SoundtracksPower Struggle
Written by Jon Harris
Performed by Sunna
Courtesy of Virgin Records, Ltd./Melankolic
Sure, the whole invisible man thing has been done before. Done to death, if you include literary examples. But let's face it, the possibility of human invisibility is one of the most fascinating premises that you can possibly tell a story about. The unfortunate thing about Hollow Man was that no one involved with the making of the movie seemed to realize that. What you have here is the development of an invisibility serum (as well as a reversing visibility serum) by a brilliant scientist, who successfully uses it on a gorilla in some of the best special effects scenes to date, and then uses it on himself. Well, of course he uses it on himself, what scientist could possibly resist? And why would any scientist WANT to resist? Well, the reason may be that, evidently, invisibility serum turns even the most intelligent scientists into raving madmen.
The absolutely infinite amount of possibilities for an invisible character are completely ignored here in favor of turning him into yet another bland faceless killer. This time, we may know who it is that's trying to kill people, but what we don't know is why he completely ignores the outside world. This is the greatest scientific discovery of mankind, and this bonehead decides to use it to become a peeping tom and to spy on his girlfriend. This vast and hugely unfortunate simplification of the potential for the story of an invisible man is both bitterly disappointing and more than a little insulting. As Roger Ebert mentions in his review of Hollow Man, it seems that director Paul Verhoeven, who directed such great films as RoboCop and Total Recall, seems to think that his audience is so intellectually dim that they prefer a mindless killer to the incredibly imaginative villain (or protagonist) that Dr. Sebastian Caine could have become.
Hollow Man is an absolutely fascinating display of brilliant special effects, which seem to map out internal anatomy just as good as any medical textbook, and is also a great deal of fun as the visible characters desperately try to make Dr. Caine visible again, but it is a dismal failure on the story level. The film starts out with a gigantic amount of intelligence, both that required for the development of an invisibility serum and that involved in the brilliant premise of the story, but winds up in the end as nothing more than yet another mindless thriller, completely lacking in thought and intrigue.
- Anonymous_Maxine
- Apr 6, 2002
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- Невидимка
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- Budget
- $95,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $73,209,340
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $26,414,386
- Aug 6, 2000
- Gross worldwide
- $190,213,455
- Runtime1 hour 52 minutes
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- 1.85 : 1