The concept behind "Hollow Man," summarized in its tagline -- "It's amazing what you can do when you don't have to look at
yourself anymore" -- is an excitingly creepy one. We're used to invisible men being good guys, generally, trying to reverse whatever it is that made them disappear. But what if an invisible guy used his powers for evil, not good? An unseen menace is always more scary than a seen one. Unfortunately, the unseen menace behind "Hollow Man" is director Paul Verhoeven, whose ham-fisted, exploitative style -- the man will show us naked breasts any chance he gets -- oozes through this film the same way it seeped into his last four ("Total Recall," "Basic Instinct," "Showgirls" and "Starship Troopers"). Sharing the blame is screenwriter Andrew W. Marlowe (last year's stupid "End of Days" and 1997's good-only-because-of-Harrison-Ford "Air Force One"), whom we'll lambaste momentarily. Watch as nearly all the possible ways this film COULD have been good disappear one by one.
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