10 Bad Movies That Wasted Great CGI
4. Hollow Man
Paul Verhoeven's Hollow Man saw Kevin Bacon take on the role of Sebastian Caine, a scientist who subjects himself to various tests to become invisible. However, when he's unable to become visible again, he breaks and sets out on a killing spree.
Remaining at a Rotten Tomatoes score of a pitiful 28%, this schlocky take on H.G Wells's classic novel The Invisible Man was condemned by critics for its awful acting, bare-bones plot, and bottom-of-the-barrel slasher tropes.
The film was so bad, in fact, that Verhoeven himself has denounced it, telling The Hollywood Reporter in 2013 that he felt it was "the first movie that I made that I thought I should not have made". He even went on to say that he "felt depressed with himself since 2002".
Despite its reputation, Hollow Man received an Oscar nomination for the - at times unsettling - CGI effects used to make Bacon disappear. It did lose out to Ridley Scott's Gladiator, but it did earn two nomination for the Stinkers Bad Movie Awards for worst screenplay and most unintentionally funny screenplay.