Hollow Man II (2006) (V)

Director:

Claudio Fäh

Writers (WGA):

Joel Soisson (screenplay)
Gary Scott Thompson (story)

Release Date:

20 June 2006 (Canada)

Genre:

Action | Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller

Tagline:

There's more to terror than meets the eye...

Plot:

A Seattle detective and a biologist are on the run from a dangerous invisible assassin gone rogue.

Plot Keywords:

Stabbed In The Eye | Blouse Ripping | Blood | Night Vision | Slit Throat

Awards:

1 nomination

US TV Schedule:

Wed. May 14

10:00 PM

TMC

Cast

Christian Slater	...	Michael Griffin
Peter Facinelli	...	Det. Frank Turner
Laura Regan	...	Dr. Maggie Dalton
David McIlwraith	...	Dr. William Reisner
William MacDonald	...	Col. Gavin Bishop
Sarah Deakins	...	Det. Lisa Martinez
Jessica Harmon	...	Heather Dalton
Sonya Salomaa	...	Trophy Wife
Terri Anne Welyki	...	Pearl Girl
John Shaw	...	Dr. Devin Villiers
David Abbott	...	Elderly Husband
Hamish Cameron	...	Washroom Man
Colin Lawrence	...	Captain Rollins
Zara Taylor	...	Ashley
Nolan Gerard Funk	...	Josh (as Nolan Funk)

MPAA:

Rated R for violence, some sexuality/nudity and language.

Runtime:

91 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Colour:

Colour

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Argentina:16 | Germany:16 | Sweden:15 | USA:R | South Korea:15 (video rating, cut) | Singapore:NC-16 | UK:15 | South Korea:18 | Australia:MA

Filming Locations:

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Company:

Frontera Productions

Trivia:

The newspaper photo of one of the killed doctors is of Paul Verhoeven. The photo was taken on location while filming Starship Troopers (1997), but has been altered for its use in this film.

Goofs:

Continuity: The creaky first step in Dr. Maggie Dalton's house does not creak when she and Frank Turner walk downstairs together.

Quotes:

Man on the street: Bacon is murder. Bacon kills

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Inside 'Hollowman 2' (2006) (V)

Not as good Hollow Man I

I liked the first, underrated Hollow-man with Kevin Bacon. It was about time that Hollywood redid the Invisible Man with all the special effects at its disposal, and that movie paid off in spades.

However, this movie, although it offers a few thrills and chills, is a rather weak follow up to the original.

Here, we have an assassin (Slater) who has turned insane killer, because the experiment to develop him into the "perfect weapon" for the military has gone wrong. It's basically a Frankenstein story. However, Slater is less monstrous than he is just an invisible badass, killing anyone who gets in his way of obtaining the injection of the "buffer". Understandably, he feels abandoned by the army, and therefore is raging against them--so he's not really an "insane murderer" as the DVD jacket says.

Anyway, the movie is fairly entertaining and the special effects are nice (although the conversion from invisible to visible is done much better and fully-treated in HM I), but it stops suddenly, opening the way for Hollow Man III. Does everything have to be a franchise, folks?

6 points.