Hollow Man

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Hollow Man ★★ 2000 (R)

Scientist Caine (Bacon) heads a team that discovers the ability to make humans invisible. He decides to test it on himself and the process works, in fact it's irreversible, and his newfound power has unexpected side effects when he gives into his worst impulses and terrorizes his colleagues, including ex-girlfriend Linda (Shue) and her new beau (Brolin). Stunning visual effects can't hide script's lack of imagination and creepy sexual kink. Degenerates into body-count slasher flick as the intriguing moral questions are dropped in favor of cheap scares. 114m/C VHS, DVD, Blu-ray Disc, UMD . Kevin Bacon, Elisabeth Shue, Josh Brolin, William Devane, Kim Dickens, Greg Grunberg, Mary Jo Randle, Joey Slotnick; D: Paul Verhoeven; W: Andrew Marlowe; C: Jost Vacano; M: Jerry Goldsmith.