User:LancedSoul/sandbox/Hollow Man

Hollow Man is a 2000 science fiction slasher film directed by Paul Verhoeven and starring Kevin Bacon, Elisabeth Shue and Josh Brolin, a story inspired by H. G. Wells' 1897 novel The Invisible Man. Bacon portrays the title character, a scientist who volunteers to be the first human test subject for an invisibility serum. When his fellow scientists are unable to restore him back to normal, he eventually becomes violently insane and goes on a killing spree. It was released on August 4, 2000 in the United States and October 12, 2000 in the Germany.

Plot
After years of experimentation, brilliant but arrogant scientist Sebastian Caine has discovered a way to make matter 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 begins to show some unexpected side effects of his extraordinary condition.

Reception
Despite Hollow Man received negative reviews from critics, it has now increasingly positive in recent years. On Rotten Tomatoes the film holds an approval rating of 27% based on 118 reviews, with an average rating of 4.35/10. The site's critics consensus states: "Despite awesome special effects, Hollow Man falls short of other films directed by Paul Verhoeven. This flick over time degenerates into a typical horror film.". At Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 24 out of 100, based on from 35 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews”. Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "C" on an A+ to F scale.