i thought the movie was okay. good special effects but the story got boring fast.

here's a nit i noticed
1) after sebastian kills the veternarian he's covered in blood but mere seconds later he's attacking his former girlfriend with no trace of blood on his person. so if people are trying to trying to shoot you do you stop to take a quick shower? or is blood just one of those easy to remove substance?

Everyone in this movie thinks it's so cool that Kevin Bacon is invisible. So what? Vanilla Ice accomplished this feat 8 years ago!

Brian, please stop ripping off Leno for your posting material.

From the previews, one of the problems of this movie is that the writers seem to equate invisibilty with invincibility.

Saw this one today. Not bad, lots of nits, but a fun store.

ah, that should be "movie" not store, not sure why I typed that.

maybe you were gonna type "story"?

maybe, but I doubt it. I thought the story as not too great, too many nits. But all the nudity was nice.

Oh well...I tried. :) There was nudity in this movie?

heck yeah!

Lots of breasts, and a lot of Kevin Bacon's not so invisible peni$. (how interesting this board censors a scientific word like peni$ and lets hell through.

There were a couple of things shown in the preview that were not in the movie. The first was the Invisible man walking through a water puddle. Another was Elizabeth Shue taking the sheet off of her bed and spreading it across a room, to land on the invisible man's head.

True, I'm guessing some of the stuff not shown was just cut material.

NIT: When the other guy pours the plastic onto Sebastian's face. You can clearly see a lot of it end up on Seb's air tube. The next scene shows it completely clean!

Also, did Seb kill the woman in the apartment across from him or what? Did he rape her? Or did he really just scare her (Like he told the "cool guy" he did)?

I thought he raped her.

So let me get this straight, when you are invisible you can get attacked with multiple bursts from a flame thrower, cracked over the back of the head with an iron bar, electrocuted then escape an inferno and plummeting lift? I realise the film makers have to make a suspenseful ending but this is stretching reality (ok I realise the whole film did that). Also I just could'nt buy that you can be phased out of our quantum existence (or whatever) by being injected with a serum. Some sort of exposure to a power source would have been more plausible.

Despite all this I thoroughly enjoyed the movie and applaud Verhoeven for further pushing the boundaries of CGI as he did with Starship Troopers - still the best CGI FX ever committed to film.

I liked this film, but there are numerous problems with it, (but, hey you know that already) .One that I have been pondering is this...Towards the end, Seb fills a load of bottles full of nitro and loads them into a centrifuge, programming it to start up in 5 minutes.He then destroys the controls and locks it shut, and the others act like there's nothing they can do.Would it be absolutely beyond the realms of possibilty to UNPLUG THE THING?And how did Seb survive being at nearly ground zero during an explosion powerful enough to blow the lift up the shaft?

I recently read a review that raised the following points:

"We've got an invisible man running around. We can only see him with these visors. Let's try to get him without wearing the visors for a while, see how we do."

"You're lying frozen on the ground, so I'm gonna build this fire above you and it'll thaw you out, hopefully ignoring the fact that heat rises."

Wow, this is such a silly movie. The point about no one using the special visors is a big one. They are running around trying to catch him with THE VISORS IN THEIR HANDS.

Elizabeth Shue trying to be sexy just comes across as creepy.

The special effects are about all this movie has going for it.

When the headphones guy (I can't remember his name) is dying, the curly headed guy (his either) is told by the vet girl (and her) to apply pressure to his neck. When the shot comes back to him about a minute later, he is sitting over the guy telling him not to die, and not applying any pressure at all. Oops. Maybe that's why he's dying.

Elizabeth shue is able to MacGyver a powerful electromagnet out of some junk stored in a big meat locker. Right.

Kevin Bacon is DOUSED in flames by a MacGyver'd Flamethrower. He's not singed, he's completely engulfed in flames for a good thirty seconds or more. All his clothes burn off. But about a minute later he is beating up Elizabeth Shue like nothing happened. He seems perfectly fine, though he must have some pretty severe burns.

Then he gets whacked big time with a crowbar in the back of the head by Shue's boyfriend. Then the two of them (shue and the boyfriend) walk off like that's the end of it! Jeez! they don't even try to restrain the Bacon or anything! They just leave him there!

Of course five seconds (literally) later, he is up and attacking them again.

Then when Shue and BF are trying to escape the exploding compound, the elevator is propelled upwards by the force of the blast. It's actually propelled OVER them. Why aren't they effected by the blast? Why aren't they thrown up into the shaft?

At the same time, Shue is mere inches from the flames, which should have given her some pretty painful burns.

And of course, Kevin is still alive. Even after being horribly burned, hit in the head with a blunt object, and caught in the same explosion which just moments before lifted an elevator car about 100 feet into the air.

Then he plummets down into the shaft, and INTO THE STILL RAGING INFERNO.

How the heck did he get out in the first place? How was he able to kiss Elizabeth Shue after he had what should have been third degree burns? Why did I pay 4 dollars for this horrible movie?

And the real question is: Why does anyone believe that a 100 foot fall into a raging fire would kill Kevin Bacon, who is obviously some sort of demigod?

Just saw this last night. Special effects, amazing, unbelievable (by that, I mean totally believable!). However, the story wasn't.

My biggest nit (which caused me to shout at the screen). Shue's trapped in the little cold room with the other people and the crowbar that her doctor friend got hit with. She bangs on the window with it, barely making a mark. Then she drops it and gives up. Um, it's a crowbar! She didn't even try to pry the door open!

I suppose an adrenalin boost could explain one recovery, or two, but not the many times that Caine comes back for more.

I'm gonna keep some duct tape in my car for medical emergencies.

Hmmm, no destroyed body was shown, can you say "Hollow Man 2"? Why can't they just definitely end these movies, instead of preparing them for a franchise? Let the writers of the sequel figure out how to bring him back, but let those of us who paid to see the first one have some closure!

And, would a supersecret, multimilliondollar, scientific organization really use film to document the procedures? (As they showed to the head honchos.) They had video cameras all over the place!

When the other scientists are talking about Kevin Bacon taking off the first time, they say that who knows what he'll do? He's an egomaniac and besides, he;s been gone longer than any of the other animals and look what happened to them! Excuse me? He is shown patting the invisible dog before he "shifts" and then kills the dog when he is invisible. Am I the only one who gets that the DOG has been gone for longer than him and the dog seems just fine! I understand that the cool effect of an invisible man killing an invisible dog looks really good, but than watch what you say in the movie about it!

When the other scientists are talking about Kevin Bacon taking off the first time, they say that who knows what he'll do? He's an egomaniac and besides, he's been gone longer than any of the other animals and look what happened to them! Excuse me? He is shown patting the invisible dog before he "shifts" and then kills the dog when he is invisible. Am I the only one who gets that the DOG has been gone for longer than him and the dog seems just fine! I understand that the effect of an invisible man killing an invisible dog looks really good, but then watch what you say in the movie about it!

(More) Way to pique interest in the opening scene, but aren't gorillas generally herbivores? I'd imagine that as a lab animal she would have been well fed, and wouldn't need to chomp on a rodent. And the guy who wants to sedate her gets into the cage with a skittish, hulking, incredibly strong and invisible animal. Couldn't they use a "cattle prod" type injector (like they used in Jaws, oh, 25 years ago!).

The SFX are first-rate, and the underrated Kevin Bacon has fun in the title role.
Unfortuately, the film itself does neither justice as, by the climax, it becomes a standard slasher film, and, as is often the case in slasher films, the characters we're supposed to be rooting for(in this case, Kevin Bacon's collegues, among them the usually solid Elisabeth Shue) give new meaning to the word 'stupidity.'

Here's my question...wouldn't an invisible man also be blind? If his body can't interact with light (neither blocking it nor slowing it down) how can his retinas convert it to nerve impulses, and how can his lenses focus it?

Unless his eyes are able to absorb wavelengths of the EM spectrm not visible to humans, then yeah, he'd be blind.

Oh, yeah...he was "phase-shifted." Maybe he'd be able to see infrared or UV.

...unfortunately, this movie panders to male fantasies of rape and murder.

Panders, by making the unlikeable bad guy someone who does those things?

Yep those evil bad guys that you are supposed to hate shouldnt do anything like that.