Cinefex no. 83

This issue includes info on the X-Men, the popular Marvel Comics series about a team of mutant humans, outcasts from society, who use their singular superpowers to oppose a team of evildoers with comparable skills, comes to the screen in an action/fantasy film from director Bryan Singer. Effects for the film are being produced by Oscar-winning Digital Domain and others. Also covers the Hollow Man, when a scientist's experiment on himself renders him invisible, the process makes him mentally unhinged in director Paul Verhoeven's high-tech updating of the Invisible Man story. Visual effects by Sony Pictures Imageworks are abundant throughout this science-fiction thriller, starring Kevin Bacon and Elizabeth Shue! Also included in this issue are shorter features on director John Woo's hyperkinetic Mission: Impossible II, director Robert Zemeckis's supernatural thriller What Lies Beneath, and the Mel Gibson Revolutionary-War epic, The Patriot.