SnoopyStyle An invisible man attacks Dr. Devin Villiers demanding something called buffer. Villiers tells him that Maggie Dalton (Laura Regan) should have buffers and he kills Villiers. Police detectives Frank Turner (Peter Facinelli) and Lisa Martinez investigates but is soon pulled off the case. They are reduced to guarding Maggie. The invisible man attacks killing Martinez. Dr. William Reisner (David McIlwraith) and Col. Gavin Bishop (William MacDonald) had set up the trap with Maggie as bait. Turner with Dalton goes on the run from both the military and the invisible man. Maggie reveals that a DOD program code name Silent Knight run by Reisner had picked up from the previous failed experiment. Maggie had created a buffer to keep the invisible subjects from dying. Special forces member Michael Griffin (Christian Slater) had been turned invisible but is now on the run.This actually started well considering this is strictly straight to DVD. Although the teens doing night vision sex tape is pretty stupid. I have no idea why the invisible man was in that room other than to see some boobs. The voyeuristic aspect of the original is still bleeding into this movie. This one needed to go all out action, but the money isn't there for that. Christian Slater is headlining but he's barely in this. He does some voice work but his character is invisible. The best option was probably for this to go far more into horror if they can't afford big time action.

Scarecrow-88 Michael Griffin(Christian Slater)wants a serum called "The Buffer" which counteracts the ill-effects of invisibility. The only one with real knowledge on how to create this agent is Dr. Maggie Dalton(Laura Regan, the opening victim in "Dead Silence")whose being guarded by detectives Frank Turner(Peter Facinelli)and Lisa Martinez(Sarah Deakins)thanks to the division head of where the Invisibility project continued, Dr. William Reisner(David McIlwraith). When Lisa is killed by the homicidal Griffin(who is trying to find out the formula of the buffer agent or to kidnap Maggie), Frank wishes to know why his partner died. Reisner had used Maggie as a guinea pig to kill Michael but this plan fails and the doctor wants to know why Michael's superior, Colonel Gavin Bishop(William MacDonald)couldn't catch him when his men had the invisible maniac within their grasp. On the lam, Frank will try to keep Maggie from harm as Reisner has his goons out searching for them while they also try to stay one step ahead of an invisible pursuer who has the upper hand.Okay direct-to-vid B-flick makes the mistake of casting Slater as the lead villain. Let's just be honest, it's not Slater's voice which makes him likable but his overall performance. If you cast an actor for whom you rarely see during a film's duration he needs to have a distinctive believable voice..Slater just doesn't cut the mustard. Facinelli is moderately interesting as the hero but nothing special. Regan as the female being pursued by everyone is adequate if unimpressive. The visual effects are decent..one standout scene has two invisible men duking it out in the rain. Instantly forgettable flick which really does nothing for Slater's sagging career. Definitely inferior to the original, but that's normally the case with a much cheaper sequel that hits DVD shelves pretty quickly.

ma-cortes This is a horror feast and killing based on H G Wells' novella and the previous film.It concerns about a biologist(Laura Regan)using the same invisibility formula in a military experiment over a soldier(Christian Slater).A detective(Peter Facinelli) is assigned to protect her from invisible man whose invisibility formula drives him insane and the killing,but his mind definitely nut and he plans to use his power to vengeance.The investigator also inoculate himself the powerful potion to battle the mad soldier become in a murdering megalomaniac.But the process is irreversible degenerating into body-count. This invisible man cannot be compared to Kevin Bacon in the first one.We discover who he is and we find out that he was sent out to kill political enemies of the establishment.Slater to get the opportunity of following in Bacon footsteps.The picture follows a lot of rules with being invisible,for instance he can't have any clothes on if you're invisible,when he materialize it can be a little embarrassing like an invisible striker,gets chilly out there running around without clothes.The producers thought in Christian Slater originally for this role because he has such a distinctive voice and while he doesn't appear as much ,because,of course,he's the invisible man he has that voice which is just so recognisable.So much film is done electronically ,the actors are used to working with blank spaces in front of them,nowadays actors in situation having to work with nobody.Paul Verhooven's Hollow man I visual effects were trying what were,at the time,very groundbreaking effects and they were very expensive,in this sequel look better than the original but they're doing it for one-hundredth of the visual effects that they had in the first movie.So the visual detail is excellent ,in spite of the low budget though it can't hide screenplay's lack of imagination.Setting standards and stunning effects specials are copied from previous film because they are difficult to surpass.So,they strap the actors into harnesses,they yank them around on wires,they shove them around with poles and I think it's helpful for the actors to kind of react to a bunch of stunt people, a bunch of wires,it creates a more honest emotion and reaction.The director Claudio Faeh is really interested in making this one a lot creeper than the first one.Darkest in tone and more suspenseful ,it's all about not showing everything we know, a kind of withholding information,withholding bits and pieces.Claudio's vision for the film is to do a modern film noir,but he's still trying to keep it very natural and realistic,keeping it very mood but not too theatrical.

mjw2305 Christian Slater takes the lead in this follow up to Hollow Man, this time the invisible man is a rogue soldier in the hunt for a serum, to prevent him from dying a slow and painful death.For a low budget movie that went straight to DVD it's actually pretty entertaining, the effects are used sparingly to keep the cost down, but they are effective enough when required. The cast is reasonable and there is enough action to make it enjoyable, even it is inferior to the original in every way.If you liked the original, then this shouldn't disappoint you too much, but part of me does still think - What was the point? 5/10