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Year:	2000
Country of origin:	USA / Germany
Director:	Paul Verhoeven
Genre:	Invisible Man Update
Starring:	Kevin Bacon, Elisabeth Shue
Rating:	4/5
IMDB link:	http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0164052/
Tagline:	What would you do if you were invisible? How far would you go?
Favourite line:	"Oh, I'd suck the tits right off of you."

Verhoeven's (Robocop / Total Recall / Starship Troopers) invisible man updating seems to be panned by all, but not by me I have to say.

Kevin Bacon's Dr Sebastian Caine is intent on 'phase-shifting' animate objects - essentially shifting them into another dimensional place so as to render them invisible. His team have figured out how to make animals invisible, just not how to bring them back. In scenes reminiscent of Cronenberg's The Fly, animals are mutated as a result of the re-phasing process.
Suddenly, a breakthrough, and Caine can't wait to get a dose of the serum down his own neck so that he can, yep you guessed it, go around groping women.

And there's the rub, so to speak. The fact that it does turn into a bit of a pervy, voyeuristic movie seems problematic to many and, whilst it's not exactly plausible that a scientist type would be such a sex-fiend, heh, it's only a movie.
The last fifteen minutes or so see us in almost slasher mode, as Caine picks off victims one by one in numerous grisly ways.
The special effccts are simply breath-taking during the invisibility transition scenes, and the cast likeable enough.
I enjoyed it, and so did Mi.
So there.