He then conducts some clinical tests on himself. After being unconscious for about 17 hours due to shock, Sebastian wakes up in pain, and recoiling from the ambient light, realizing that he can see through his eyelids. Despite a painful shift to transparency, the procedure is successful. Howard Kramer (William Devane), and talks Linda and Matt into lying to the other four team members, saying that Kramer and the board have given them the go-ahead for human testing. Instead of reporting his success to the military, Sebastian inexplicably lies to the oversight committee including his old teacher Dr. To Sebastian, however, it feels like the end as reversion was the last big breakthrough. In celebration, the team goes out for a fancy dinner, where Sebastian makes a toast to the greatest research group in the world. Sebastian and his colleagues, who also include veterinarians Sarah Kennedy (Kim Dickens) and Carter Abbey (Greg Grunberg), and technicians Frank Chase (Joey Slotnick) and Janice Walton (Mary Randle), eventually enable the serum to work on the gorilla. Matt Kensington (Josh Brolin), another member of their research group. Unbeknownst to him, she has become involved with Dr. Linda McKay (Elisabeth Shue), who is a scientist on his team. Although work on the serum occupies nearly all of his waking hours, Sebastian becomes obsessed with his ex-girlfriend Dr. Working late one night on re-configuring the molecular model of the irradiated protein that will restore Isabelle to visibility, he solves the problem and immediately reports his success to the top members of his staff. What the team discovered is that "phase-shifting" a living organism into invisibility was easy to achieve but phasing them back to visibility has proven very difficult. His current project is reversing the invisibility effect on his test subject, a female gorilla named Isabelle. Sebastian has been attempting to perfect the formula for the last four years, and he conducts his experiments on animals kept inside a top-secret hidden military lab accessible only to him and his staff. military, as well as a serum that will return the subject back to visibility. In this version of Wells' story, the doctor is a brilliant, but slightly megalomaniacal molecular biologist, and is working on an invisibility serum for the U.S. Sebastian Caine (actor Kevin Bacon) taking the place of Doctor Jack Griffin (actor Claude Rains) and updates the story to the 20th Century.
As it is now, it's a good exercise in visual effects territory, but there are so many other possibilities that lay with the story of an invisible human being.The synopsis below may give away important plot points.
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Had there been a stronger ending, the movie would've been a little better.
He succeeds in a few instances, and he does manage to hold your attention for a while, but the ending is the weakest link in the movie. While the actors try to make the best with what they have, Paul Verhoeven tries to goose us a little. Instead, we have Bacon, Elisabeth Shue and Josh Brolin and a few others mixing it up in a hidden lab somewhere in D.C. It would've been interesting to see Caine in the real world, and what would've been done to capture him. True he does venture out into public and enters the apartment of his very fetching neighbor, but that's about all the real world we see with Caine.
But, we don't get any sense of power from Caine. We see Caine slowly going mad and trapping his fellow scientists in the lab when they threaten to go public. Caine says to his colleagues, "You have know idea how much fun this is." In truth, we don't. But while Caine's transformation and subsequent experiments with his new found power prove interesting, the movie fails to capture what it feels like to truly be invisible. Withholding information from his superiors, Caine tests his serum on himself and undergoes a transformation that is quite visually arresting. Kevin Bacon plays Sebastion Caine, an arrogant scientist who develops a serum for invisibility. Hollow Man boasts some pretty impressive visual effects and does have an intriguing story.