2000 · action · sci-fi · thriller
Hollow Man
Directed by Paul Verhoeven1h 52m2000
Cocky researcher Sebastian Caine is working on a project to make living creatures invisible. Determined to achieve the ultimate breakthrough, Caine pushes his team to move to the next phase — using himself as the subject. The test is a success, but when the process can't be reversed and Caine seems doomed to future without flesh, he starts to turn increasingly dangerous.
Our read: Hollow Man (2000) reads as a sombre, breathless, inventive action · sci-fi · thriller entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, extreme action / sci-fi, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
- sombre
- kinetic
- extreme
- twisty
- epic-stakes
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