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Hollow Man II

Hollow Man II (2006)

May. 23,2006
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4.4
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R
| Horror Thriller Science Fiction

After the mysterious death of scientist, Dr. Devin Villiers, Det. Frank Turner and his partner are assigned to protect Villiers' colleague, who revealed that a veteran soldier was subjected to an experiment with the objective of creating the ultimate national security weapon... an undetectable soldier. The experiment failed – with disastrous side effects.

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Ehirerapp
2006/05/23

Waste of time

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Console
2006/05/24

best movie i've ever seen.

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Afouotos
2006/05/25

Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

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Brendon Jones
2006/05/26

It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

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Wizard-8
2006/05/27

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.

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TBJCSKCNRRQTreviews
2006/05/28

It's not as good as the first one(which wasn't quite a masterpiece, its third act was a step down), but you probably knew that already. Unfortunately, it simply isn't great by any standard. "Average" is the key-word here, with few exceptions. The effects aren't half bad, and the overall production is decent enough. There's at least a single reasonable detail in this, and there's arguably one decent action scene. It isn't entirely deprived of entertainment value. However, everything in this is one-dimensional. The plot that takes the next logical step from the original, the characters that range between bland to irritating or downright obnoxious, the whole shebang. There is little suspense or tension. It tries too hard at scaring us(and several of these are cheap jump-ones, the one that opens this being particularly stupid) and making us laugh, and it fails with every lame attempt at the latter. The script is clichéd. So many of the things done when invisible are just plain silly. The dialog varies between being nothing special and poor. Too many things don't make sense or hold up, even without thinking much about them. You have to wonder why they bothered, if this was all they could come up with. There is a bunch of moderate violence and disturbing content, relatively infrequent strong language, and equally gratuitous, a little nudity and sexuality in this(purely for the sake of eye-candy). I recommend this to those who just *gotta* have more Hollow Man horror, regardless of the quality. 5/10

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Paul Andrews
2006/05/29

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.

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mjw2305
2006/05/30

Christian Slater takes the lead in this follow up to Hollow Man, this time the invisible man is a rogue soldier in the hunt for a serum, to prevent him from dying a slow and painful death.For a low budget movie that went straight to DVD it's actually pretty entertaining, the effects are used sparingly to keep the cost down, but they are effective enough when required. The cast is reasonable and there is enough action to make it enjoyable, even it is inferior to the original in every way.If you liked the original, then this shouldn't disappoint you too much, but part of me does still think - What was the point? 5/10

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