His manic work addiction already has wrecked a past relationship with research team member Linda (Shue), even as Brolin’s less-brainy, but more socially-balanced team member (Dr. Sebastian Caine) loses his grip on research ethics as he realizes his invisibility serum - with himself as its first human recipient - is finally ready for prime time.
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Driven by the sort of geeky tunnel vision that so often upends movie scientists’ view of the bigger picture, Bacon’s character (Dr.
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The Invisible Man, in fact, served as the loose source material for Hollow Man’s story, penned by Castle series creator Andrew W. And there's oodles of bloody, gory violence combined with award-nominated special effects as Bacon’s lead character - a workaholic researcher too arrogant for his own good - transformed, one translucent blood vessel at a time, into a petulantly unhinged version of H.G. Rude, crude jokes and sight gags kept the movie from tripping over its own weight. Kevin Bacon, Elisabeth Shue, and a pre-Thanos Josh Brolin gave the cast a huge injection of star power. Panned by contemporary critics but a hit at the box office, Hollow Man checked off all the items that lent Verhoeven’s sci-fi spectacles their goofy grown-up appeal. RELATED: The 13 Scariest Horror Movies Streaming on Peacock, from Hollow Man to Knock at the Cabin
Now 84, he’s reportedly planning a return to American shores with Young Sinner, an in-development erotic political thriller set to re-team Verhoeven with RoboCop screenwriter Edward Neumeier. It’s hard to believe, but 2000’s Hollow Man (stream it here on Peacock!) was the last of his English-language films before Verhoeven retreated - seemingly for good - to the European movie market. Mature like Ridley Scott’s Alien franchise, yet silly and swashbuckling like their more family-friendly science fiction blockbuster counterparts from the 1980s, Verhoeven films like Total Recall (1990) and Starship Troopers (1997) tapped a huge adult movie audience - one that seems to have gone less acknowledged in recent years, with the advent of tamer connected sci-fi universes from Marvel, DC, and Lucasfilm. For a hot decade or so beginning with 1987’s RoboCop, big-budget movies from director Paul Verhoeven gave the sci-fi box office a certain R-rated flair.
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