Maybe we are waiting for Rona Mitra to reappear? She doesn't reappear. Yeh, there are couple of decent car stunts in Hollow Man 2, but why else are we watching? We’re watching for special effects and they’re just not there. I wouldn’t have expected this to have been as good as the first Hollow Man film, but whereas the first was absolutely packed to to the rafters with special effects - even its special effects had special effects - Hollow Man 2 has virtually none. Of all the scenes in general the ones worked out in a shopping mall work best, but on the whole Hollow Man 2 - no surprise - strikes as being cheap. Only occasionally is it effective to have items flyting across the screen however. Of course Hollow Man 2 lends itself kudos wherever it can by referencing it's bigger and wealthier brother, as in this crazy cast-aside gag: How many people in their lifetime gets to achieve it? Perfect husband, perfect father, citizen? I'm none of these things. Maggie Dalton: Ok, You got what you wanted. Michael Griffin: Oh, you're a true hero Maggie - Just like me.ĭr.
The highest standard it achieves may have ben this bit: The dialogue taxis on the runway for most of Hollow Man 2 but sadly never takes off either. One thing the hollow man does in Number 2 is he tugs and pulls people about all over the place, so instead of the special effects normal to these films (floating cigars, guns, trays and other delights) actors in Hollow Man 2 constantly go flying from one side of the screen to the other.
you should be switched off if the picture is good, and so switching on to ask what the hell is happening is either a sign that the movie is not for you, or sometimes that it has been poorly executed.Ĭhristian Slater, the star of this straight to DVD romp, is a pleasure, and thankfully (as one of the incidental characters points out) he has a lovely voice, but it’s hard to know what his invisible man wants.
There’s a fine balance in the movies to be achieved between switching on and switching off. Much of Hollow Man 2 is shot in dark rooms, so it has a repetitive feel, and although it hits the ground running with a stunning and violent murder, it becomes bogged down shortly after that in mucho chasing about, and the rather characterless two leads, whom it is difficult to care about. The problem is that although Hollow Man 2 - directed the Swiss Claudio Fäh - great name that - is not as half as bad as reviews may suggest, but it could have been a helluva lot better. You've seen Hollow Man with Kevin Bacon, so you're not expecting Tennessee Williams. A good beginning you will think when you see it, but SPOLIER ALERT - it's probably the best bit of the film.Īfter that the story is wrapped up things become a little more confused I'm afraid to say, but maybe you will keep watching, just in case something momentous happens. Dylan mentions another scientist, Maggie Dalton, who knows the secret formula the invisible person is looking for! And we're off. by this two minute stage into the movie, now implied to be a person) throws Dylan around for information. At a cocktail party of a Washington think tank a mysterious invisible force (it's an invisible man of course) drags a scientist named Dylan into a nearby bathroom, where the mysterious force (. Hollow Man 2 starts off as a kind of bad-ass First Blood, with the super-soldier Michael Griffin played by Christian Slater being tracked by his former commander, Bishop, who spends a lot of time leaning over a console with a furrowed brow.