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Darkman
When thugs employed by a crime boss lead a vicious assault on Dr. Peyton Wilder, leaving him literally and psychologically scarred, an emergency procedure allows him to survive. The scientist then returns to exact revenge on the people who burned him alive.
21 September 1957, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
17 September 1956, Rochester, New York, USA
20 December 1952, Taunton, Somerset, England, UK
3 August 1950, Chicago, Illinois, USA
10 June 1961, Carmel, California, USA
17 August 1923, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
29 November 1946, Bakersfield, California, USA
February 20, 2014
Darkman is funny, but it's no joke; it's the work of a man who underlines the conventions of adventure stories and horror because he enjoys them, and knows that even when rendered tongue-in-cheek, they're timeless.
May 20, 2003
Darkman sustains mild interest throughout, but it never takes off, partly because a real-estate scam, gangland shootouts, city corruption and a love story clutter up the sad story of Westlake's strange mutation.
March 28, 2010
Raimi isn't effective with his actors, and the dialogue lacks smart menace, but his canny visual sense carries many a scene.
June 22, 2015
...comicbook slapstick and off-the-hook mania in a combination only previously seen in Evil Dead II.
June 04, 2007
Raimi's flair for jazzy visual effects and extravagant action sequences, combined with direction that's full of punch and energy, makes this the best pop roller-coaster ride around.
May 01, 2014
Raimi, in 1990, made the best comic-book movie there ever was...
May 12, 2001
Raimi's live-action comic book aims to deliver scares spiked with laughs. That it does.
March 13, 2014
It's a fun, gruesome, and original revenge picture for horror and pulp fans alike...
January 26, 2006
Wild, woolly and occasionally wondrous.
February 25, 2014
As with most of Raimi's early work, the second-hand premise is an excuse for the director's movie-mad visual invention.
January 08, 2016
Darkman still remains one of Sam Raimi's most ambitious projects to date and it's hard to do anything but admire the kind of lofty ambitions Raimi tosses at the screen with his self-created superhero crime thriller/dark comedy mash-up.
June 04, 2007
Despite occasional silliness, Sam Raimi's Darkman has more wit, pathos and visual flamboyance than is usual in contemporary shockers.
