Product Description

A seattle detective and a biologist go on the run from a dangerous invisible assassin gone rogue as well as the government forces that created him. Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 07/24/2007 Starring: Christian Slater Laura Regan Run time: 91 minutes Rating: R

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #15442 in DVD
• Brand: Sony
• Released on: 2006-05-23
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Aspect ratio: 2.35:1
• Formats: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .20 pounds
• Running time: 91 minutes

Amazon.com
Hollow Man 2 ups the ante established by Paul Verhoeven's 2000 science fiction thriller by involving not one but two invisible men in this direct-to-home-video sequel. Christian Slater is top billed as a former Army assassin who volunteers to undergo the same invisibility experiments endured by Kevin Bacon in the original film. Like before, Slater is rendered transparent but also dangerously unstable, and detectives Peter Facinelli and Laura Regan are called in to stop his killing spree. Scripter Joel Soisson has had a hand in most of the recent horror/thriller franchise sequels (Hellraiser, Dracula, Mimic, and others), so he understands what's required to draw in genre fans (violence, special effects, nudity); what he's less capable at producing is an un-cliched script, which essentially strands Swiss director Claudio Fah and the cast (who are much better than the material). Undiscerning horror enthusiasts might check this out hoping for a quick thrill--and they'll find it here, but not much else. -- Paul Gaita

Customer Reviews

Hollow Sequel. Don't Waste Your Time
Those who have seen the first Hollow Man will certainly find this "sequel" bad. The acting is poor, the sets are poor, special effects mediocre and you may not notice that Christian Slater is in it if you don't look at the credits.

The story begins with a cranky scientist who says he kills monkeys for a living being thrown around at a party by some invisible force. He nearly gets thrown out of a window, then gets his throat cut in the bathroom. All the while, there was no visible assailant. The cops arrive first, followed quickly by the military who declare that they are taking over the investigations.

Meanwhile, our hero and his female partner are tasked to protect a female a colleague of the murdered scientist. They suspect that she may be the next target. They try to secure the premises, but the female cop gets knocked out by an invisible force. The soldiers rush in and a confusing shootout follows. Our hero escapes the scene with the female scientist who tells him the whole story about a military experiment to induce invisibility. The subject of the experiment was betrayed. The buffer which was supposed to keep him alive, was never given to him. The invisible man returns and seeks revenge on the scientists and military men.

Our invisible man goes on a rampage, killing his CO and other big and bad guys. Every scene is shot in such poor lighting, both indoors and outdoors that one may really need night vision goggles to see not just the invisible man, but the visible ones as well.

There is a slight twist in the tale towards the end, but the final scene is neither scary nor exciting. Don't waste your time with this one.

More like Verhoven
The original film that was directed by Paul Verhoven was a step away from his classic action film and took the form of a thriller. The sequal to the Film HollowMan 2 Takes it back ti the action genre.

Starring Christian Slater as the newest experament in the human testing of invisibility. The results are a mentally unstable killing machine on a quest of personel power and profit. A due of a scientist and a police detective team up to find and stop the killer and it soon comes down to Hollow Man Vs Hollow Man, the battle of the invisibles.

The film was a direct-to-DVD release and had significantly less promotion and propaganda than its prequal. It has recieved a standard 3 star reception in most reviews and websites.

Well, Christian Slater Is an Invisible Man ... Not a Good Career Choice, I Believe
I didn't particularly find Paul Verhoeven-directed `Hollow Man' impressive and I actually thought its characters are stupid and the story was silly (tell me, who would like to be absolutely invisible without thinking about its risk?), but the plot of the sequel is even more preposterous, After the promising opening ten minutes, the film soon runs out of gas, depending on so-so set-pieces and countless plot conventions.

The story is, in short, about an invisible killing machine Griffin (played by Christian Slater who is not seen but heard almost all through the film). Griffin needs serum that would keep him alive, so he stalks the scientist who knows how to make it. There are stock characters like a determined PD detective, his partner and military officials. Peter Facinelli plays the cop Frank Turner, Laura Regan the scientist Maggie Dalton and William MacDonald the officer whose name, sorry, I don't remember.

The attack and chase scenes involving the invisible killer are passable at best with OK effects, but the film spends so much time to show Frank and Maggie running and driving around in the city without knowing what to do next. Usually directors like Michael Bay can keep entertaining us with his loud, showy and very enjoyable actions, but Claudio Fäh, as in his previous B-action film `Coronado,' takes too much time to get to the point. The stunts are decent, but the slack pace of the film damages it considerably.

But what kind of military officers and scientists would dream of creating invisible soldiers before inventing invisible weapons first? Are they supposed to fight with bare hands? In the original film CGI-enhanced actions and Kevin Bacon's over-the-top acting made us temporarily forget the silliness of the plot and numerous holes in it. It was guilty pleasure, but in the sequel, you even don't get that.