Hollow Man 2000 123movies

Watch: Hollow Man 2000 123movies, Full Movie Online – Having discovered they could turn animals invisible, a group of scientists test the subject on a human. Head of research, Dr. Sebastian Caine decides to use himself as the subject. After the experiment can’t be reversed, it takes a toll on Caine’s personality, causing him to hunt down and kill his colleagues.
Plot: Cocky researcher Sebastian Caine is working on a project to make living creatures invisible. Determined to achieve the ultimate breakthrough, Caine pushes his team to move to the next phase — using himself as the subject. The test is a success, but when the process can’t be reversed and Caine seems doomed to future without flesh, he starts to turn increasingly dangerous.
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Ratings:

	5.8/10 Votes: 132,393
	26% | RottenTomatoes
	24/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 2129 Popularity: 25.142 | TMDB

Reviews:

I have been unusually lucky with my SyFy-channel movie watching lately. I had no idea what this movie was really but there was nothing else on last night and I also noticed that it was directed by Paul Verhoeven which have directed quite a few movies that I really liked so I decided to give it a try. As it turned out, this is another movie that is somewhat above the usual standard for movies given on SyFy.

It has a rating on 27% on Rotten Tomatoes which is just bullshit. But then, the so called “professional critics” used by the Rotten Tomatoes are dimwits who trash every movie that is not “intellectual” enough for their self-imagined refined tastes. I do not know why they continue to use these clowns for their official rating system instead of the real audience? On IMDb it holds a 5.6 out of 10 rating which is more realistic. I was hesitating between 7 and 6. In the end I gave it a 6 because, as I said in the title, it is a quite okay movie but not a fantastic one.

The story of the movie is a fairly standard one. Scientist experiments on himself, experiment goes wrong, scientist goes mad, hack hack, chop chop, scientist dies, happy ending for the remaining survivors. Thus the movie pretty much relies on its special effects which are indeed quite good. The various invisible effects, not to mention the scenes where Caine is partially visible due to smoke or water effects, are quite enjoyable to watch.

Kevin Bacon is making quite a performance as a very disagreeable fanatic scientist. He is doing a remarkably good job of it even when he is covered by a latex mask which of course is quite a feat being deprived of any facial expressions. The rest of the cast was fairly standard Hollywood fare, that is, fairly bland.

On the whole I found the movie quite enjoyable. It was perhaps a bit slow at the beginning and Cain’s show of megalomaniacal attitudes was indeed becoming a bit tiresome after a while. As I said, his roles was a very disagreeable one. Once he became invisible things started to become more interesting although it took a wee time for things to speed up even then.

It was certainly not a wasted movie evening and the movie is worth at least 6 out of 10 stars.

Great watch, will watch again, and can definitely recommend.

This has a fantastic premise of what happens when humans discover a process to “invisible-lize” and “visible-lize” organic life forms. For a 2000 movie, this has a high production value and probably state of the art computer effects in 2000, and for most of the movie they hold up, though they do struggle at points. I honestly do think that it’s an “invisibility” effect, is what helps it hold up.

This is a rather tricky premise, it’s presented as a scientist turning himself invisible, but it’s much closer to a “Twilight Zone” episode with a philosophical waxing of a Dr.’s god complex. What would a human do when it has a distinct advantage / power over others. And while that is super interesting, it tracks a little better if you just think of him as “snapping”, but the movie fights you on this as it very quickly devolves to “I could do [horrible thing], who’s going to stop me.”. It parallels with the mad scientist trope of “We can, but do we ask if we should?”.

Kevin Bacon nails the awful, irredeemable mad scientist, and Elisabeth Shue does a wonderful job of playing support to Bacon and a protagonist in her own right. It is refreshingly different that the protagonist is the bad guy, or at least he’s fluid, and it’s almost two different perspectives blended together to make one story.

I’m a big fan “inescapable terror” type of thriller, and this is fantastic example of it, and I think other thriller / horror fans will enjoy this where the sci-fi types might not enjoy it as much, even though that’s how this one is sort of advertised.

With “The Invisible Man” soon available, I’m very excited to have watch this, and am looking forward to a newer version of it.

For fans of the sci fi and slasher genres, and fans of Kevin Bacon
“Hollow Man” has enough strong performances, nice moments, and interesting plot turns to make for an mildly enjoyable film, as long as you don’t think too hard about the plot. Visually, it is quite appealing and effective, and the soundtrack (especially the opening themes played over some effective and atmospheric opening credits) does a great job of adding some “oomph” to the action of screen. Keven Bacon is his usual on-screen self, and carries the film effectively, which is no small feat when consider that half the time he is either invisible or covered up in latex, which deprives him of most of an actor’s most effective tools (his eyes and his mouth).In the scenes where he is covered in bandages, he has to get the character’s emotions and presence out with body language and vocal cues, and even this is filtered through SFX. So I give him kudos for a professional, effective job in a difficult environment.

So why only a score of 5 out of 10? Having admitted that the film is enjoyable if you don’t think too critically about it, I am now going to think critically about it for a minute.

Problem number one is Elizabeth Shue. Don’t get me wrong, I think she is a very attractive woman, and she can hold her own as an actress in most movies. But she is horribly miscast here as a “top level research scientist” (just as she was in “The Saint”). She may come across as more than a typical “dumb blonde”, but she’s a clothes-horse, pure and simple, and I can’t believe for a moment that she could get a PhD in the physical sciences. She’s far more believable fending off Bacon’s advances than she is playing “Pentagon Barbie”. (The other two supporting actresses, who are by no means ugly or haggard, but still have considerably less “Vogue” cover potential, are quite believable in their roles).

Problem number two is a certain weakness in the script regarding how and why Bacon’s character goes around the bend. The movie implies and foreshadows all kinds of reasons: Bacon is already a creep with a God-complex; the serum which turns him invisible is affecting his brain’s neurochemistry; being invisible confers addictive power and opportunity he doesn’t want to give up; invisibility creates an alienation and isolation from society…etc. But the script doesn’t really drive any of these points home, and just flits from idea to idea without doing real justice to any of them. A line of dialog or two is meant to imply a whole series of attitudes and moral values changing, (“It’s easier to sin when you don’t have to look at yourself in the mirror”, etc.), and even a pro like Bacon can’t manage it in the space he is given.

Problem number three is (are) the escalating misogyny and graphic completeness of the voyeurism, molestation, and finally rape scenes included in the movie to convince the viewer that the Hollow Man is becoming a human monster. The first two scenes were bad enough (especially the CGI of a sleeping woman’s bare breast being fondled), but perhaps necessary, but the final full blown rape scene was way too mean and misogynistic for my sensibilities. That scene didn’t need to be there, and its inclusion makes it hard for me to recommend it to my more conservative friends…they would be angry at me if they watched this on my say-so and came upon these scenes unprepared, and they wouldn’t buy or rent this movie if they knew these scenes were in it.

Problem number four is that the movie producers overreached themselves a bit with the invisible SFX…some of them, especially the transformation scenes, don’t quite work. The figure struggling on the table is very plastic and inorganic-looking and doesn’t convince. (Ironically, the first transformation scene, with the gorilla, works much better, possibly because our human eyes aren’t as familiar with the textures and shapes of the simian physique). And here and there the articulation of the shoulders isn’t quite right, or the swing of the hips. These deficiencies seem to be a common problem for 3D computer graphics of the human form, and they dog the animators here. Sometimes the animators get it, but sometimes they don’t. I know it wasn’t easy, but if they couldn’t pull it off, they shouldn’t have used it.

The last major problem was that the movie should have ended when Shue does her wonderful “base-stealing” slide into the elevator and hoses Bacon’s character down with her home made flame thrower. That was a great moment, and should have been the climactic payoff for the film. Instead the movie staggered on for another 10-15 minutes in “Friday the 13th” territory with the Hollow Man popping back up from what should be mortal injuries again and again – who knew that naked invisible men could be so resilient?

So that’s why only 5 out of 10. Too many problems and weakness to score this as a classic. But I do own this movie (bought it used) on VHS, and will buy it (used) on DVD if I find it cheap enough. Enjoy the eye candy and strong supporting performances and the many nice little touches here and there…if you are into that sort of thing.

Now you see him, now you don’t… now you’re dead!
In Paul Verhoeven’s entertaining take on H. G. Well’s The Invisible Man, Kevin Bacon plays scientist Sebastian Caine, who inadvisably tests his top-secret ‘invisibility’ serum on himself, and becomes a deranged homicidal maniac. Caine, a genius with something of a God complex, is a little flaky BEFORE he undergoes the experiment, but, afterwards, with the serum seriously affecting his mind, any semblance of sanity flies right out of the window as he makes the most of his new power by raping and killing at will.

There is a big clue to the condition of Sebastian’s fragile mental state at the beginning of the movie: as he taps away at his PC, trying to solve a scientific problem, the word ‘unstable’ appears on the screen, before cutting to a close-up shot of his face. And this, being a typically OTT Verhoeven FX-fest, is about as subtle as the film gets—which is fine by me ‘cos I love the Dutch deviant’s more flamboyant style: mucho gore, minimal plot, sexy gals and GREAT BIG special effects sequences that blow your socks off. Hollow Man has all of this and much more.

From the opening scene, in which a rat in a cage is graphically chomped in half by an unseen creature, it is clear that this one is going to be one hell of a ride. Verhoeven and his effects team pull out all of the stops to astound the audience with scene after scene of show-stopping CGI enhanced visuals and bloody mayhem. Whether it be the amazing ‘disppearing/reappearing’ FX, the pool-side attack on a surprised William Devane, or the tense finalé in which Caine hunts his scientist colleagues trapped in an underground lab, your gob will be well and truly smacked!

Although there are plenty of silly moments which defy logic (in typical horror fashion, the scientists decide to split up to find Caine, who by the end of the movie seems almost superhuman and impervious to harm), the sheer verve and audacity of the film means you’ll be having too much fun to care.

Ending with a tense and action packed climax, which see the movie’s survivors (sexy Elisabeth Shue and stock hunk Josh Brolin) ascending a lift shaft rocked by a huge explosion and chased by the kill-crazy Caine, Hollow Man isn’t exactly demanding on the old grey matter, but if what you’re after is a fun slice of excessive popcorn cinema, then this one is for you!

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 52 min (112 min), 1 hr 59 min (119 min) (director’s cut) (USA)
Budget 95000000
Revenue 190213455
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Director Paul Verhoeven
Writer Gary Scott Thompson, Andrew W. Marlowe
Actors Kevin Bacon, Elisabeth Shue, Josh Brolin
Country United States, Germany
Awards Nominated for 1 Oscar. 7 wins & 15 nominations total
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix SDDS (8 channels), Dolby, DTS
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera Arriflex 35 BL4, Zeiss Standard Speed and Super Speed Lenses, Arriflex 435, Zeiss Standard Speed and Super Speed Lenses, Arriflex 535B, Zeiss Standard Speed and Super Speed Lenses, Fries Mitchell 35R3, Zeiss Standard Speed Lenses, Moviecam Compact, Zeiss Standard Speed and Super Speed Lenses
Laboratory DeLuxe, Hollywood (CA), USA
Film Length 3,081 m (Sweden), 3,132 m (Spain)
Negative Format 35 mm (Kodak Vision 200T 5274, Vision 500T 5279, SFX 200T)
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm