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Undescribable Perfection

I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

Quite frankly I did not find this film all that bad. The should have written Slater out entirely. Other than that it wasn't bad. The acting by the Detective really works. The plot and concept are kinda interesting. One of those films without a center or a purpose, but somehow it holds your peripheral attention and gets you interested. It might be the large amount of action shots and the interesting quick changing shots. Not quite sure if I can put my finger on it. I do like how they kill off Slater at the end. A spade to the chest. That's gonna leave a mark. The whole concept of being invisible, what cures it, deteriorating health, etc is as old as the hills. But somehow they make it work.

Looking back, I see that my rank for the original "Hollow Man" was something like a strong "5" (it suffered from a tacked on "second" ending that made it 10 minutes too long, some gratuitous misogyny and some bad casting choices, also it dragged in spots). This movie isn't as good (or as slick), but I feel it had some points of interest and did a few things well (different things than the first movie), and somehow that adds up to a "5" as well.Well, a foolish consistency and all that. "HM" I was a "strong 5", this one barely makes "5", but I am feeling generous.BTW, Christian Slater is "in this", but 90% of the time he's a disembodied voice and pretty much phones his part in anyway, so don't let his name in the credits pull you in. The annoying bits first: the biggest problem with HM2 is its "hero", Fascinelli. I have nothing against the guy - he's good looking and he can act - but he's all wrong for the part, and looking at that smooth pretty boy face, there's no way you believe for a moment in the beginning of the movie that he could be a top homicide detective in a big city police department.(To his credit, and maybe the director's, he seems to "harden" and settle in after the point in the movie when his partner dies;at that point, the actor may have had more to work with. For all I know, this may have been deliberate, and if so, good for him.)2nd problem is the other lead, the female research scientist, who gives such a subdued performance for most of the film that I kept wishing that Elizabeth Shue would show up and hijack the role or something. Again, part of the problem is that she just doesn't have anything interesting to do for the first 30-40 minutes or so, and after that it's all "Oh my" and "goodness me" stuff for the character. 3rd problem is that the screenwriter wants and needs the audience to forget how physics (and everyday human interaction) works. An invisible assassin works best when no one knows he's coming in the first place. But if you know he's coming...infrared and night vision, tear gas,ether, lasers, nets, sonar, bags of flour, trip wires dead falls and man traps could all be set up. I'm not an especially devious guy, but I came up with 5 ways to trap and hurt a barefoot, naked man in an enclosed space in the first 30 seconds, not to mention that if he grabbed me, I'd start breaking the fingers of the hand he grabbed me with...and he is supposedly being trailed by an elite team of scientists and SWAT members? Who try to nail him with automatic weapon fire? What about a "dogpile" of bodies in an enclosed space? Still, I could tell the director and screenwriters were trying hard to make something that was different from the original and were trying to inject some quality here and there, at least as much as the budget allowed. The "invisibility" effects were at least as good (to my eyes)as the original - or at least the director and SFX guys knew what they could pull off and knew how to use it. Some of the locations worked well, and there were a couple of plot twists and setups that were well done. The element of political corruption (originally the invisible assassin was being used to bump off enemies of the current bureaucracy instead of for national security)at least lends a bit of verisimilitude to the plot. I got HM2 as part of a 4 pack for $5, and it wasn't a bad way to kill a couple of hours late on a weeknight when cable didn't have anything I liked, and I had a nice glass or two of shiraz to keep things mellow. If your expectations aren't any higher that that...you probably won't be too disappointed.

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.

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.