Intcatinfo A Masterpiece!

RipDelight This is a tender, generous movie that likes its characters and presents them as real people, full of flaws and strengths.

Fatma Suarez The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

Deanna There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

Wizard-8 I know that Paul Verhoeven was unsatisfied by the results of the original "Hollow Man" movie (which he directed), so I am kind of mystified by why he would participate in not just a sequel, but a fairly low budget direct to DVD sequel. (Though he just acted as a producer and didn't direct this time around.) Anyway, I thought that this sequel did improve on the original movie in one aspect - it doesn't have the sour and nasty feel that happened the first time around. And while this movie had a much lower budget than the original, the special effects are often quite good for a straight to DVD movie. However, the script clearly needed some more work before shooting began. There are some dull stretches, but a more pressing problem is that there are some murky plot details that are clearly lacking proper explanation. In the end, the movie is so-so, and is only recommended for fairly undemanding viewers who can see it for free or little cost.

LeonLouisRicci Not much to see in this DTV Sequel. Coming a bit late at that (6 years) it is a vapid and vacant Horror Movie with two expressionless Leads stiffly making there way around a most boring story of Govt. Super Soldier experiments and well, not much else. After a gory and effective opening, things flatten out and it methodically moves as a Police chase and quite a bit of talk. This isn't Awful but not by much. The effects are infrequent and unimpressive and the Cast is unremarkable with some really Bad Acting even for a B.Christian Slater fans can again marvel at the once popular Actor's decline and inability to find nothing more than supporting Roles or the Lead in some really iffy stuff. There is a Mystery there that has yet to be uncovered.Anyway, this is not much of a Movie and is recommended for Horror Completest only, and for those Shut-Ins that will watch anything, even something that is nothing.

Paul Andrews Hollow Man II is set in Seattle where scientist Dr. Devin Villiers (John Shaw) is brutally killed at a society function, Seattle detectives Frank Turner (Peter Facineli) & his partner Lisa Martinez (Sarah Deakins) are put on the case but are soon taken off it again when the US military show an interest. Frank & Lisa are assigned to protect fellow scientist Dr. Maggie Dalton (Laura Regan) who might be the killers next target but the job was one big set-up designed to lure the killer into the open by the military & Lisa is killed by an invisible assassin named Michael Griffin (Christian Slater) who needs a serum developed by Dalton to stay alive & will do anything to get it. Frank saves Maggie & together they go on the run from the US military & Griffin the invisible assassin who could quite literally be anywhere...Directed by Claudio Faeh this was the straight-to-DVD sequel to Paul Verhoven's rather splendid horror thriller Hollow Man (2000) & I think it's fairly safe to say that Hollow Man II is nowhere near as good. The script by Joel Soisson has no real connection to the original apart from the fact it features invisible men & an invisibility serum, while the original was a tight tense thriller set in a hi-tech lab with a small group of character's & features plenty of Verhoven's sex, gore, sadism & spectacular effect here in Hollow Man II the plot is reduced to nothing more than a strictly average at best cop thriller told from the point of view of a detective who sets out to be the hero & kill the bad guy & if that wasn't clichéd & predictable enough even his partner is killed so there's a little bit of revenge motivation in here as well. Then there's the been done to death plot about the US military trying to create the 'ultimate weapon' through science & it all going wrong & spiralling out of control as innocent people start turning up dead & then they wanting to hush it all up as they try to rectify the situation. The whole film feels by-the-numbers, lifeless & a bit forgettable although having said that at least it moves along at a decent pace & at under 90 minutes in length it doesn't outstay it's welcome. The character's are fairly poor, the cop is standard thriller clichés all the way, by the end the scientist has just becomes a screaming female to be rescued type character & even the bad guy's are given little development with Griffin given no more motivation other than he is mad.So there's definitely a large drop in the quality of the story & that's not the only aspect that suffers in comparison to the original Hollow Man as the special effects are fairly forgettable & there isn't even a proper scene where someone goes invisible unlike the original where there's a highly detailed & impressive effect where Kevin Bacon becomes invisible vein by vein & the two or three brief shots in Hollow Man II were actually taken from Hollow Man. The special effect are of the cheap variety, scenes of doors opening by themselves or merely the sound of someone walking or people having to 'fight' thin air. The only real special effects scene is at the end when two invisible men fight each other in the pouring rain & the rain drops hit them & reveal their outlines. There's a brief scene with some nudity & a nice opening murder as someone has their throat slashed with very bloody results but apart from those two scenes this is all rather tame & doesn't contain anywhere near the glorious excess gore & sex of the original. Not good in my book & a definite strike against it.Probably made on a fraction of the originals budget Hollow Man II has pretty good production values although it's rather cold, dull & colourless to watch. Although set entirely in Seattle the film was shot entirely in Vancouver in Canada in order to keep that budget as small as possible. The acting is alright but the two main leads lack any charisma or personality, one time A-list Hollywood star Christian Slater only has about five minutes of screen time since the rest of the film his character is invisible.Hollow Man II is an alright film if your looking for an average cop thriller with a few Sc-Fi horror elements thrown in there to pass the time but it's nowhere near as excessive or good as the original & you will probably have completely forgotten about it by the time the end credits stop rolling.

ctomvelu-1 HOLLOWMAN 2, an STV, continues the story of a secret government experiment to create an invisible man who then might be used as a weapon of war. Or for peeping at naked women. Or something. Everyone seems to have forgotten about a little issue of insanity that goes along with being invisible. I guess no one reads H.G. Wells anymore. This time around, the invisible fellow is played by Christian Slater, but he is seen so little I figure they could have hired anyone to play the role. On the other hand, he is the only name actor connected to this slightly wobbly sequel. But Kevin Bacon he is not. Bacon kept the original HOLLOW MAN from sinking without a trace. Interestingly enough, this sequel adheres pretty closely to H.G. Wells' story, 'The Invisible Man," which is a plus. It also is fast-paced, violent and occasionally suspenseful, another plus. The FX are kept to a minimum, which is probably for the best -- at one point, there is a fight in the rain between two invisible men that is likely to get the viewer chuckling, if the viewer has imbibed enough beer beforehand. The cast is mostly young and inexperienced but eager to please, obviously to draw the under-30 audience. The bad guys, including a senator and Army colonel, are older. No surprise there. Peter Facinelli, a dead ringer for David Arquette but easily 10 years his junior, is the hero, a cop caught up in the search for the missing invisible guy. The film is one long chase, which wears a little thin after an hour. Fortunately, HOLLOW MAN 2 is barely 90 minutes long and is over almost before it has begun -- that is, assuming the viewer has gotten into the swing of things. It also has one of the best and touching endings I have seen in a horror pic in years. Just beware the likelihood of an endless string of STV sequels.