Paul Verhoeven's modern take on the invisible man story. The writing is terrible, the acting questionable about half the time, and the last act is an atrocity of Hollywood cliches that consists entirely of forced action scenes, explosions, and other assorted unbelievable events. But it was highly entertaining! Verhoeven delivers a very polished film that has great editing (Mark Goldblatt) and special effects. For being a CG-heavy film from 2000, the effects don't look all that bad. About a third of the effects have dated poorly (most of the 3D body models), but the smoke and water effects are highly creative and still look pretty good.
6/10. Had the film not devolved into the silly ending that it did, it might have turned out to be a sci-fi classic. Okay, maybe not.
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