2000 Directed by Paul Verhoeven
Cocky researcher, Sebastian Caine is working on a project to make living creatures invisible and he's so confident he's found the right formula that he tests it on himself and soon begins to vanish. The only problem is – no-one can determine how to make him visible again. Caine's predicament eventually drives him mad, with terrifying results.
Scott A. Hecker Susan Dudeck Jason W. Jennings Michael J. Benavente Matthew Dettmann Joseph Geisinger Richard Duarte
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love Kevin Bacon? Watch this film.
Hate kevin Bacon? Watch it anyway, you won't have to look at him for long.
Leave it to Verhoeven to make an Invisible Man movie and just dive head first into all of the queasy, voyeuristic, perverted and truly despicable things that every teenage boy has fantasized about doing with a power such as this one. Kevin Bacon does a good update of the original Claude Rains portrayal, by playing a "mad scientist" who rather than being driven insane by his invention, was someone who was already totally depraved and just looking for an outlet. It's a minor Verhoeven, but still a truly nasty and shocking movie.
"You're goddamn right it's a gift. And if you weren't so shortsighted, you'd let me out of this cage to explore it."
Verhoeven's patented misanthropy extends past the obvious sci-fi overreacher plot to cover not just the basic inhumanity of a person unbound by consequence, but also to consider all of the ways darkness tempts us, not just the physical but the subconscious places where nobody can see us.
not a particularly complicated work but as in a lot of Verhoeven's films he makes the subtext text while the general depravity and exaggerated genre tropes subtlely conceal a deeper cynicism.
"It's amazing what you can do when you don't have to look at yourself in the mirror anymore." Back in 2000, I was so disappointed in this film that I practically denied that Paul Verhoeven directed it, to the point where over the years, I remembered it as a watered-down, PG-13 studio compromise. (It most assuredly is not.) Now I can see it's very much a Paul Verhoeven movie, using the H.G. Wells story to affirm his jaundiced view of human nature-- who we really are when we're accountable to nothing but our basic instincts. The film sets up Kevin Bacon's character as an arrogant, aggressive, morally compromised person from the very first scene, and comes to the not-unreasonable conclusion…
Paul Verhoeven rocks because they gave him 100 million dollars in 2000 and he used it to show us a living gorilla’s circulatory system
scoop! footloose hunk kevin bacon headlines a new pic from robocop creator paul verhoeven, but dont worry ladies--despite stalking/sexually assaulting women & murdering a dog, hes not a cop, just invisible!
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Ingenious visual design and unrestrained engagement with the pathology of power-sick men.
Verhoeven wastes no scenes.
Paul Verhoeven's reimagining of The Invisible Man may be his weakest film; but there is still a lot to get your teeth into. The first scene really shows what you are in for - this is a very mean spirited film, and the director's fingerprints are all over it. The lead character (very effectively played by Kevin Bacon) is a cocky and headstrong scientist, who decides to test his new serum - which grants he recipient invisibility - after a successful test on animals. The overarching theme of the story condemns both science and vivisection at once - certainly there are things in nature that man should not tamper with, and animals are so different to humans that testing on…
After creating an experimental serum for invisibility, conceited scientist Sebastian Caine (Kevin Bacon) tests it on himself-with terrible consequences for everyone involved in the project, in Paul Verhoeven’s science fiction horror with Elizabeth Shue, Josh Brolin and William Devane.
The film acts as a modern update of the Invisible Man story for a new millennium; by focusing on the whole process (unlike the 1931 original) we’re shown how arrogance and attempting to play God ultimately only leads to destruction. To this end, Caine serves as a realistic version of the hotshot maverick trope so many movies indulge in, the film subverting this by showing how that same recklessness directly leads into everything eventually going wrong.
Bacon finds the perfect mix…
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Hollow Man (2000)
Wacky Dutchman Paul Verhoeven tries his hand at this 2000s update of The Invisible Man, which happens to be the last film he made in the States before returning to his native Holland.
Even as a big fan of Paul's other work, this one came to me as a curiosity more than anything, as it's considered one of the worst films in his career (even Paul isn't fond of it). Just like with John Carpenter's Ghosts of Mars however, is it fair to say that I feel alone thinking this was actually pretty good? Because what is generally considered a distasteful, uneven and CG-laden mess still manages to be a entertaining and…
