SpunkySelfTwitter It’s an especially fun movie from a director and cast who are clearly having a good time allowing themselves to let loose.

Ariella Broughton It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

Marva-nova Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

Delight Yes, absolutely, there is fun to be had, as well as many, many things to go boom, all amid an atmospheric urban jungle.

lemon_magic 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.

TheLittleSongbird I enjoyed the original Hollow Man for all its flaws, so I was expecting something along the same lines for this sequel. It is such a shame though that Hollow Man 2 is such a mess. Not even Christian Slater could save it, I like him and he seemed a good choice, but with the characters being as stock and as irritating as they were and the script being as thin and as cheesy as it was he can't do anything with the role. Visuals are a step-down, not cheap as such, but they aren't amazing either. The music is not as atmospheric or as fitting, while the story is rushed and uninteresting with little suspense or thrills to satisfy. Overall, a real let-down. 1/10 Bethany Cox

TBJCSKCNRRQTreviews 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

ma-cortes This is a horror feast and killing based on H G Wells' novella and the previous film.It concerns about a biologist(Laura Regan)using the same invisibility formula in a military experiment over a soldier(Christian Slater).A detective(Peter Facinelli) is assigned to protect her from invisible man whose invisibility formula drives him insane and the killing,but his mind definitely nut and he plans to use his power to vengeance.The investigator also inoculate himself the powerful potion to battle the mad soldier become in a murdering megalomaniac.But the process is irreversible degenerating into body-count. This invisible man cannot be compared to Kevin Bacon in the first one.We discover who he is and we find out that he was sent out to kill political enemies of the establishment.Slater to get the opportunity of following in Bacon footsteps.The picture follows a lot of rules with being invisible,for instance he can't have any clothes on if you're invisible,when he materialize it can be a little embarrassing like an invisible striker,gets chilly out there running around without clothes.The producers thought in Christian Slater originally for this role because he has such a distinctive voice and while he doesn't appear as much ,because,of course,he's the invisible man he has that voice which is just so recognisable.So much film is done electronically ,the actors are used to working with blank spaces in front of them,nowadays actors in situation having to work with nobody.Paul Verhooven's Hollow man I visual effects were trying what were,at the time,very groundbreaking effects and they were very expensive,in this sequel look better than the original but they're doing it for one-hundredth of the visual effects that they had in the first movie.So the visual detail is excellent ,in spite of the low budget though it can't hide screenplay's lack of imagination.Setting standards and stunning effects specials are copied from previous film because they are difficult to surpass.So,they strap the actors into harnesses,they yank them around on wires,they shove them around with poles and I think it's helpful for the actors to kind of react to a bunch of stunt people, a bunch of wires,it creates a more honest emotion and reaction.The director Claudio Faeh is really interested in making this one a lot creeper than the first one.Darkest in tone and more suspenseful ,it's all about not showing everything we know, a kind of withholding information,withholding bits and pieces.Claudio's vision for the film is to do a modern film noir,but he's still trying to keep it very natural and realistic,keeping it very mood but not too theatrical.