Verhoeven also storyboarded most of the film, as he had done with all of his American films after experiencing trouble coordinating the action of Flesh+Blood (1985). Of the 560 visual effects shots in the film, approximately two-thirds were worked on by SPI and the remaining third by Tippett Studio. Approximately $50 million of the film's $95 million budget was reserved for visual effects work, which was primarily worked on by Sony Pictures Imageworks (SPI) and Tippett Studio. Kim Dickens as Doctor Sarah Kennedy, the feisty and rational veterinarian of the team who disapproves of the animal testings being done and has a strong dislike for Sebastian.įollowing the multi-layered and controversial Starship Troopers (1997), Verhoeven wanted to tone down the levels of sex and violence in his next film, aiming to make a more 'conventionally commercial blockbuster'.Josh Brolin as Matthew 'Matt' Kensington, Linda's new boyfriend and co-worker to both her and Sebastian.Linda and Matt emerge from the burning lab and emergency personnel take them away in an ambulance. Linda disconnects the elevator cables, causing Sebastian to fall to his death down the shaft. He pulls her off the ladder and onto the top of the elevator. Sebastian, despite his injuries, grabs Linda's ankle. They attempt to climb a ladder in the elevator shaft to escape as the bomb explodes. Linda and Matt find the bomb, but cannot stop it. Sebastian recovers and approaches Matt and Linda from behind with the crowbar but Matt deflects the blow, throwing Sebastian into a nearby circuit box, electrocuting him and rendering him partially visible.

Before Sebastian can kill Linda, Matt strikes him with a crowbar. Just as Sebastian enters the elevator, Linda fires the flamethrower at him. Meanwhile, Sebastian builds a makeshift bomb that will destroy the facility after he leaves. Linda constructs an electromagnet using a defibrillator to open the door, then gathers materials to assemble a flamethrower. Sebastian then kills Sarah and Frank, and locks an injured Matt and Linda in the freezer, leaving them to die.

Sebastian mortally wounds Carter before getting into a fight with Matt. Linda and the others hide in the lab, while Matt and Carter take tranquilizer guns to hunt for Sebastian using thermal imaging goggles. He begins to murder team members one by one, with Janice being his first victim. The next day, Sebastian waits until the whole team is inside the lab before he disables the phones and the elevator codes except for his own. After they leave, Kramer attempts to alert the Army, but Sebastian, who followed Linda and Matt to the house, kills him. Linda and Matt go to Kramer's house and confess all. The team discovers that they have been watching a recording and that Sebastian has been leaving the lab without their knowledge. Sebastian, becoming increasingly unstable, also kills a dog being used as a lab animal in a fit of rage. He leaves the lab again and spies on Linda and Matt, becoming enraged when he sees them about to have sex. Ignoring their threat, Sebastian assembles a device that runs a video loop of his heat signature in his quarters. Linda warns Sebastian that if he leaves again, she and Matt will tell the committee about the experiment. After he drives to his apartment to retrieve some lab supplies, he notices a female neighbor undressing and violently rapes her inside her apartment. Unable to cope with the isolation, he defies instructions and leaves the building. Sebastian is quarantined in the laboratory due to his condition and the other researchers construct a latex mask for him to wear around the lab. The procedure to return him to visibility fails, and he is almost killed. The team becomes concerned that Sebastian is taking it too far. He enjoys sneaking around the lab in order to scare and play pranks on his fellow co-workers, including molesting Sarah.

The procedure is successful and Sebastian turns completely invisible. He convinces part of the team to go right into human testing without military authorization, keeping the rest in the dark. Instead of reporting his success to the military, Sebastian lies to an oversight committee which includes his mentor Howard Kramer, telling them he is close but needs more time. Sebastian becomes infatuated with Linda again but, unbeknownst to him, she has become involved with Matt. The team succeeds in reversing the procedure, returning an invisible gorilla to visibility. His team includes ex-girlfriend Linda McKay, Matt Kensington, Sarah, Janice, Carter, and Frank. Arrogant scientist Sebastian Caine has developed a serum for the military that can make a subject invisible.

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