

Once he’s invisible and witnesses this same spectacle, he argues with himself: “Don’t even think about it.” “Who’s gonna know?” After sneaking into her apartment, he doesn’t just watch-he assaults her. He’d previously been fascinated by a woman in the apartment across from his, who’d begin to undress and then pull her blinds at the last moment. After Caine becomes invisible and the antidote fails, he begins to act erratically (that is, more erratic than he did before). There’s a reference to God being displeased with the team’s research, which would probably be correct although they’re joking when they say it.

The profanity and sexual language are extreme. The rest is standard formula Sci-Fi and with modern Computer-Generated graphics plus direction by Paul Verhoeven, it won’t be pretty. He also lies to his team, telling them that they’ve been given clearance to do human testing, and volunteers himself for the test. After Caine-in a flash of genius-has apparently found one, he hides that fact from the military researchers funding the project because he wants more time to do research his own way. As the film opens, we see (graphically, as a rat is eaten by an invisible lab animal) that they’ve already perfected an invisibility serum what they still need is a stable antidote. Sebastian Caine ( Kevin Bacon), a brilliant, but arrogant and self-centered scientist, heads up a research team pursuing the secrets of invisibility. The film title may be more a reference to his nature than to his invisibility.ĭr. Wells’ The Invisible Man, fails that test and meets a fate similar to that of the character in the original novel. A major test of a person’s inner makeup is: What would you do if no one could see you do it? The title character in this film, based loosely on H.G.
