Director Paul Verhoeven likes creating memorable cinema moments. Remember when Arnold Schwarzenegger's head opened up in Total Recall while disguised as a woman or when Sharon Stone uncrossed her legs in Basic Instinct.

It's no surprise then that that opening sequence in HollowMan sees a rat torn apart by an invisible creature. Blood and gore is not in short supply. Plenty more is spilt over the next couple of hours.

The diet seems to be going pretty well

However, Verhoeven gets more effect from what he doesn't show. The real tension is built up by the lab animals you can't see and when scientist Sebastian Caine (Bacon) turns invisible himself.

Don't be fooled by the films title. This is the Invisible Man by any other name. Having said that, in terms of style and effects, it's a million miles from the 1933 original staring Claude Rains.

Watching Bacon transform into an invisible state has to be seen to be believed as does the size of the syringe used to inject the brightly coloured magical formula.

Come out, come out, wherever you are

Sadly, once out of sight, the former Footloose star realises his unlimited potential as an invisible man, especially where women are concerned.

It doesn't take long for him to commit murder at which point Hollow Man turns into a carbon copy of Alien.

Bacon decides to kill the rest of his scientific team so no one will know his little secret. Unfortunately his former colleagues fail to learn the cast iron movie rule - always stick together.

You think I'm hot. OK, let's turn up the heat some more

One by one they are picked off in Verhoeven's typical OTT brutal style.

For all it's predictability, Hollow Man is well worth a look if only for the special effects which are genuinely special.

Good all round performances from the cast, even if the climax stretches credibility to the extremes with the superhuman recuperative capabilities of some of the heroes.