Hollow Man 2 (DVD)

If anything ever stank of "pointless sequal" it was going to be this. Most people watching this will have seen the original and be fully aware the lab was destroyed, Kevin Bacon was killed and all the research destroyed. Only 1 person escaped alive. This one drops you right into the invisiblity and I assume that was Christian Slater (the only recognisable name in the cast) playing our Invisible Man judging by his voice, you know the film is going to stink as they go for gratuitous nudity in the opening scene. After the gruesome murder scene eventually leading to the squeaky stair I figured we were going to be lead by the nose and told ...  Read the complete review

A worrying trend is beginning to develop in Hollywood. In days past some of the studios dodgier output would skip theatrical release and end up in the market known as DTV (Direct To Video). Such films would wind up on the bottom shelf of the local video store and pull back some of the dollars spent on making the film without the need for blowing more money on expensive marketing for a film that wouldn’t pull back any coin. But now Studios are openly welcoming the direct to video market by actively making sequels to some of their more successful movies purely for the home video market. A low-rent movie made for a low budget riding on the name of a more famous ...  Read the complete review