Product Description

A Seattle detective and a beautiful research biologist find themselves the targets of an assassin who has taken a serum that makes him invisible and drives him insane. Sequel to the 2000 film Hollow man.
Genre: Suspense
Rating: R
Release Date: 3-JUL-2007
Media Type: DVD

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #28048 in DVD
• Brand: SLATER,CHRISTIAN
• Released on: 2006-05-23
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Aspect ratio: 2.35:1
• Formats: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .26 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 Man 2....doesnt smell like Bacon....must be Slater
In 2000 Kevin Bacon became the man who signed up to become a Hollow Man after the scientists made a monkey go invisible. After Bacon was invisible he began rampaging around killing off people one by one, terroizing Josh Brolin and Elisabeth Shue and eventually getting blown up in an elevator shaft. Now 6 years later they make another one...Hollow Man 2 and now in the spot as the invisible Assassian Hollow Man is none other then Christian Slater (Heathers, Pump Up The Volume) who is only in a couple of scenes but provides voices overs. Peter Facinelli (Can't Hardly Wait, Tempted) plays Det. Turner who after his partner is killed in an atempt to capture Hollow Slater runs around with Doc Laura Regan (Wes Craven Presents THEY) who so happened to be a part of the experiment involvoing Slater going invisible. How Hollow does this movie go? Well it has its moments and Peter Facinelli is basically the only one who keeps it alive. Slater looks cool in blue makeup but man...come on, going from crappy movies like The Deal, Manhunters to this?! I so hope he gets better movies. Regan's acting is bland and I'm not liking the short hair on her. The curly long hair in the scene where Slater goes Hollow was nice but short....no. So, all in all it wasnt that fantastic and I hope they dont make a Hollow Man 3. Well, if they do the only actor I have in mind for the role is Corey Feldman....just kidding....or am I?

Not Too Bad
The first Hollow Man was sort of an invisible man meets alien film with the title character going nuts in an underground installation. This one is more like the original Claude Raines movies. Two cops get drawn into a murder case and are immediately superceded by the military. But when one of them dies protecting someone related to the case, the lead detective, who tries so hard to be Tom Cruise, goes on a vengeance campaign to find out why his partner had to die.

There is an invisible man (unimaginatively named Griffin) who seems to be killing people. He needs a buffer that was designed by the woman being protected by the cop. A cat and mouse game follows with complications added by the military. Finally, desperate measures are called for and the film reaches its climax.

Christian Slater is the invisible man in this one but his part is quite small and his biggest scene is a flashback. The movie starts very quickly as a character is attacked at a formal function. Things continue to move quickly all the way to the end with only a few pauses to catch a breath. The only real problem I had was that there is no real reason to care about the characters. We know so little about them it is almost as if they are lab rats, just people to have things happen to. Still it is a pretty fun movie

HOLLOW INDEED
Waiting six years to do a sequel to the more engrossing original, this followup doesn't really seem necessary. Confusing plot developments, standard effects and mediocre acting combine for a rather tedious thriller. Christian Slater is going to become the next Stephen Baldwin with his laconic, devil may care and lifeless acting. Peter Facinelli and Laura Regan try a little harder, but they're swamped in the script's ineptitude. Maybe it'll be nice to say we haven't seen Christian Slater for a while!