The Movie: Hollow Man was a pretty disappointing movie. A guy (Kevin Bacon) turns himself invisible, and then he goes on a rampage. This movie falls squarely in the middle of the thriller genre, with all that entails, including a horribly predictable plot, and of course, doors left wide, wide open for the killer to return after everything is "safe". I mean, so wide open that the audience can really just sit there and say "why don't you just kill him now?" I mean, it's just bad, bad, bad.

The visual effects, I do have to say were kind of cool. I mean, I was totally expecting the "visible man" see all the internal organs effects, but they really pulled it off very well, and I was pretty impressed by those effects. You could see a tremendous amount of work went into it all.

With as much effort as there was in the visual effects department, I found myself a bit surprised at how poorly the sound effects were executed. Some of the sounds just seemed really, well... canned. I swear, they used the same exact creaking floor sound throughout the entire movie! And a lot of the other little sound effects here and there sounded terribly generic, almost as if they were from a video game or something.

And of course, there was the big hubbub about seeing Kevin Bacon's schlong in this movie. Well, you don't really see it, you just see a computer generated version of it without the skin on it. Big whoop. Overall, this movie was just what I was expecting -- a pile of crap!

The DVD: The video transfer on this DVD is quite good, though it did exhibit a bit of gradient banding early on, there weren't many noticeable compression artifacts thereafter. The images was nice and bright, though just a tiny bit soft, and the colors bold and beautiful. The audio was just average, with not particularly well executed surround sound effects, though I don't know if that's because the sound in the original movie sucked or not.

As far as special features go, there's actually quite a bit of stuff on here, including two commentary tracks, deleted scenes, a whole bunch of behind the scenes featurettes, and a little picture-in-picture comparison of the before and after of a few effects shots. And oh yes, you get a couple of trailers, as well as a few trailers for other movies. I'd say the execution of the DVD production was overall better than the execution of the production of the movie itself, haha.

What really makes me laugh is that there is a two-disc "Superbit" version of this DVD available now, which cracks me up because originally, "Superbit" was reserved for only the best movies that would benefit the most from this special treatment. Maybe the video transfer could have been better, but the quality of the movie itself... just isn't there!