But don't come to Max looking for movies like House of Gucci. And HBO MaxР’В just started streaming King Richard, about the father to young Venus and Serena Williams, last week. HBO Max, in particular, has become synonymous with the practice. but you're not likely to mistake it for a particularly well-made film.This year has seen an unprecedented number of new theatrical movies being released on streaming services the same day they hit cinemas.

Fans of this sort of low-end genre fare might find it just a little more entertaining than they were expecting. More of a semi-watchable chase thriller than any sort of horror movie, Hollow Man 2 is a fairly mindless, yet admirably efficient, little piece of Sequel We Didn't Ask For. There's also a 7-minute Visual FX Comparison (which I dug), a Storyboard Comparison, a Storyboard Gallery, and a bunch of Previews for When a Stranger Calls, Ultraviolet, The Dark, Hostel, The Fog, Freedomland, Basic Instinct 2, and The Amityville Horror. Slater earns a few chuckles by showing up 'invisible,' while several other participants dole out some dish on how the flick got made. The 17-minute Inside Hollow Man 2 is a solid little behind-the-scenes piece with interviews from a few members of the cast and crew. Video: Anamorphic widescreen (2.35:1) and pretty slick across the board.Р”Р„udio: Dolby Digital 5.1, with optional English subtitles. but it's pretty darn disposable all the same. The principals do what they can to breathe some life into the proceedings, but it's pretty clear that the special effects are the star of Hollow Man 2 - some of which are surprisingly cool (a final rain-shower battle between two Inviso Men is pretty slick indeed) while others are hilariously cheap-looking.Р”В®ssentially a goofy little matinee flick for the FX geeks and the schlock-obsessed sequel-lovers, Hollow Man 2 isn't nearly as bad as it could have been. Hero Cop is played by the less-expensive Tom Cruise (Peter Facinelli), and Lady Scientist is portrayed by the expressionless Laura Regan.

Imagine Memoirs of an Invisible Man with fewer intentional laughs (and some extra unintentional ones) and you're close to getting what Hollow Man 2 is all about.Р”В¬hristian Slater gets top billing, despite having maybe 91 seconds of screen time. Basically, it goes like this: Inviso Psycho is chasing Lady Scientist. The plot is convoluted and the flick's not edited particularly well - but the basics are laid down with just enough clarity to keep things decipherable. Let's just say that Joel Soisson's screenplay is not the main selling point of Hollow Man 2. In an effort to combat the side effects of the inviso-serum (apparently it makes you decay or something), Michael Griffin must track down the team of scientists who dabble in high-tech transparency. This time around we have Christian Slater's voice as a psychotic inviso-man who also happens to be a former solider extraordinaire. 'In name only' is the phrase of the day here, as Hollow Man 2 has next to nothing to do with the first entry. provided you didn't outright hate the first flick. And while it's not even up to the meager standards of the first entry, Claudio Faeh's Hollow Man 2 delivers just enough B-movie sci-fi slickness to warrant a rental. Paul Verhoeven's Hollow Man didn't exactly take the world by storm, but the flick apparently sold enough DVDs to warrant this (much) lower-budgeted direct-to-video sequel.

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