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Oh god this is awful!

posted 18 years ago by jona100
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I’ve just finished watching this and all I can say avoid this movie like you would a sledgehammer in the testicles! Its awful just plain awful, where to start?
Hmmm well lets just say its ultra low budget shows through clearly, almost 90% of the movie is the 2 main characters driving around in a car and walking down alleyways and hallways, the FX?, what FX?, if you are expecting this movie to have the cool CGI of the first movie forget it, this movies has about 20 seconds of CGI and the rest is guns on wires and people leaping into walls, I mean talk about cheap!

Christian Slater may get a prominent billing in the credits but he has less than 2 minutes screen time making it clear the producers hired him to get a star name on the credits but could only afford to have him for ½ day’s filming.

If you saw the utter bargain basement straight to DVD disaster that was Starship Troopers 2, you have a good idea of what this movie has in store for you.

[–] jmbwithcats 18 years ago

This movie isn't as bad as Starship Troopers 2, it takes a lot of skill to make a movie that bad. It's one of about 8 movies out of 800 I've rated a 1 for.

Hollowman II has decent pacing, aesthetically it works, and fairly nicely directed.

Not sure why people are so hard on the film.

I remember Laura Regan from an episode of Ghost Whisperer -- she did very well in that role as well.

Christian Slater has very little input into this movie, but that's for the best, his character is supposed to be understated and to that end it was well achieved.

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[–] jona100 18 years ago

Personally I thought this movie was actually worse than ST2, both movies though share the same big problem; sequels to mega budgeted movies with only 5% of the budget and a DTV market.

Hollow Man 2 was agony to sit though, turgid boring scene after boring scene, I kept waiting for actually something to happen but it never did, the most that ever happened was characters flying around against walls ever so often.

Whats more the movie has huge lapses of logic:

- How the hell did the cop know that a camcorders night vision could make Slaters character visible?
- It stretches plausibility to the limit that the cop would inject himself with the invisibility serum as he knows its irreversible

The use of Christian Slater was absolutely laughable, he only appears in two scenes in the movie the first half way through the film for 30 seconds, then for about 1 1/2 minutes at the end. The director was obviously using the same trick he used with John Rhyce Jones in Coranado in hiring a recognisable actor for 3 hours and giving him top line title credit to sell the movie on to Blockbusters.

The DTV sequels trend is probably one of the worse to come out in the last few years, by taking well known movies and making ultra low budget cheapo sequels to exploit the name reconginition of the original movie, as the producers know the name itself will sell the movie into profit instantly thus no investment and time needs to be spent making a good movie.

[–] jmbwithcats 18 years ago

I think you're being a bit harsh here. Movies are made direct to video because they lack the funding for a screenwide release and they dont expect it to return that type of investment.

The effects in this movie were horrendous, when the lead is being pulled backward near the end she looks like a fraggle on strings, I would have laughed if I weren't cringing.

Slater never should have been given top billing since he's barely in it, and that is misleading, but beyond that the movie is okay if you're working on something else and just have it going in the background.

Just don't pay too close attention and you can survive the experience puke free!

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[–] sillyspaghetti 8 years ago

The opening of this film made me laugh like a berk as it was so horrendous but so great at the same time! Think I may like this but for all the wrong reasons!