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Darkman (1990)

August. 24,1990
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6.4
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R
| Action Thriller Science Fiction
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Dr. Peyton Westlake is on the verge of realizing a major breakthrough in synthetic skin when his laboratory is destroyed by gangsters. Having been burned beyond recognition and forever altered by an experimental medical procedure, Westlake becomes known as Darkman, assuming alternate identities in his quest for revenge and a new life with a former love.

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Rijndri
1990/08/24

Load of rubbish!!

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Comwayon
1990/08/25

A Disappointing Continuation

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Fairaher
1990/08/26

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

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Geraldine
1990/08/27

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

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climbingtiger957
1990/08/28

Am i only the one of few who thought this movie was trash !unless most of the reviews were written by junior school kids .the plot was terrible ,acting was terrible ,i actually turned it of ten minutes before the end because i was so bored with the same old plot.no real story behind it except for a document that i cant even remember what it was about.he had no super powers i can remember except he didn't feel pain ,and was a bit stronger than others ,could he take a bullet hmm not sure ,just made no sense ,shoulda called it mr.crispy ,really bad film with awful acting ,i wonder how he made a rubber willy for himself ??

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slightlymad22
1990/08/29

Long before Liam Neeson was Brian Mills, Qui Gon Jin or Oskar Shindler, he was Peyton Westlake AKA The DarkmanSam Riami's wanted to make a superhero movie, and unable to secure the rights to either The Shadow or Batman, Raimi decided to create his own superhero and struck a deal with Universal Studios to make his first Hollywood studio film. The result featured Neeson in the title role as "The Darkman"Plot in A Paragraph: Peyton Westlake (Liam Neeson) a scientist who is attacked and left for dead by a ruthless mobster, Robert Durant (played by a fun Larry Drake), after his girlfriend, an attorney (Frances McDormand), runs afoul of a corrupt developer (Colin Friels). Neeson is great in both roles, and Larry Drake is a pantomime villain as he hams it up as finger collecting Robert Durrant (all that was missing was a spot of moustache twirling!!) fifteen years later, some of the green screen special effects have not held up that well, but the make up definitely has.There were two direct-to-video sequels, "The Return of Durant" in 1994 which Drake returned for, and "Die Darkman Die" in 1996

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Spikeopath
1990/08/30

Sam Raimi's trial run for the Spider-Man franchise is a whole bunch of fun. Liam Neeson plays Dr. Peyton Westlake, a super scientist who after a major run-in with the villainous Robert G. Durant (Larry Drake), reinvents himself as Darkman, a super-anti-hero who sets about ridding L.A. of its mobsters.It's a comic book film that isn't based on a comic book, Raimi inventing his own tortured protagonist whilst homaging similar beings of eras past. All the silliness of such fare is here of course, overblown violence and colourful characters are frequent, but there's good thought gone into the revenge theme, while the action sequences are often excellent. The pace hardly sags, as Raimi's creations move about a Los Angeles that is equally decaying or affluent, and in Neeson the story has a lead actor with swagger, pathos and emotional force in abundance. 7/10

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jrkkearney
1990/08/31

I don't write reviews, i'm open minded about all films and was excited to check this out, from a perspective of someone watching it twenty years after release. Liam Neeson has come a long way since this and thankfully so because I even googled him saying this was one of his less desirable movies on reflection. Firstly the plot is riddled with humorous holes, though the first fifteen minutes play out actually well, the film isn't sure whether Darkman is a superhero or not. The fact he can set up a lab so quickly by himself with no money in a couple of days is debatable, inconsistencies often occur with masks and how long they last for, we're told 99 minutes, yet other scenes show him with a cupboard full of these things. Cut to end scene where everyone is shooting guns at nothing, even the bad guy in the end is 2 feet from Darkman with a big gun and after a dozen shots still misses him. One scene has him lose it over a pink elephant, whether it's supposed to be humor is uncertain, if it was serious then it's sooo dumb. As I said after a while you cringe and feel embarrassed for the actors. With Sam Raimi behind it there is a huge Xena feel to it with its silly action, then it's confused with making it dark and almost horror like in other scenes. The 'Quick and the Dead' by Raimi is a far cry better than this. In the end I was disappointed and kind of glad I watched it by myself. There's nothing I can really save from this movie, again twenty years ago it was probably the bomb but I doubt it, Godfather, Rocky, Star Wars all pre-date that and they were much better. Batman and Robin is less stupid, and sadly that's saying something.

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