Hollow Man 2 (2006)

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	Year of first release: 2006
	Director: Claudio Faeh
	Actors: Christian Slater (Broken Arrow, Robin Hood, Bullet to the Head), Peter Facinelli, Laura Regan
	Country: USA
	Genre: Thriller
	Conditions of visioning: 18.08.2014, DVD, 11" computer screen
Synopsis: A cop (Facinelli) is in charge of protecting a biologist (Regan) after a colleague of hers is brutally murdered. The military is involved and of course the project on which she was working is secret.
Review: I didn't even know there existed a sequel to the pleasant SF Thriller by Paul Verhoeven starring Kevin Bacon and Elizabeth Shue, until I saw it on the shelf of a DVD store. The original movie was the interesting exploration of the effects of invisibility on the psyche of a man, like only Verhoeven can do. It was a grade A movie with a solid budget and thus excellent special effects. The 'sequel' was released directly to DVD and was obviously cheaper, but it cleverly recenters the story as a police investigation. The few invisible man effects are well done. It is often that sequels are produced for cheap because people want to 'see more of the same thing' but they rarely deliver. In the case of Hollow Man 2 I found that it was fulfilling my expectations which were no different than the ones of other people. Even the climax is satisfying (SPOILER: a duel between two invisible men). As I already thought after watching Bullet to the Head, it is nice to see the too rare Christian Slater, even if we see most of the time only his contour.
Rating: 6 /10