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:

Murder | On The Run | Topless Female Nudity | Slit Throat | Stabbed In The Eye

Awards:

1 nomination

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

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

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

Filming Locations:

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Company:

Destination Films

Trivia:

The character's name "Michael Griffin" is a direct reference to the character of "Griffin" from H.G. Wells' 1897 serial novel "The Invisible Man". In Wells' story, Griffin was driven insane by his invisibility - much like the character in this movie.

Goofs:

Continuity: Near the beginning of the movie Devin Villers gets pushed out of the window in the bathroom. He gets pushed out of the second to top window of the building. The next scene begins with the camera angle from the bottom of the building looking up, where we see that not only are none of the windows broken, but there is a gray cement ledge on the building that was not previously there.

Quotes:

Man on the street: Bacon is murder. Bacon kills

Movie Connections:

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

Soundtrack:

One On One

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.