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.
6 January 1930, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
14 December 1965, Detroit, Michigan, USA
13 February 1966, Dorchester, Massachusetts, USA
17 August 1923, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
25 September 1952, Kilwinning, Ayrshire, Scotland, UK
22 June 1958, Birmingham, Michigan, USA
13 November 1952
1956, Michigan, USA
4 September 1937, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
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.
May 01, 2014
Raimi, in 1990, made the best comic-book movie there ever was...
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.
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.
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.
June 04, 2007
Despite occasional silliness, Sam Raimi's Darkman has more wit, pathos and visual flamboyance than is usual in contemporary shockers.
May 12, 2001
Raimi's live-action comic book aims to deliver scares spiked with laughs. That it does.
January 26, 2006
Wild, woolly and occasionally wondrous.
June 22, 2015
...comicbook slapstick and off-the-hook mania in a combination only previously seen in Evil Dead II.
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.
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.
March 13, 2014
It's a fun, gruesome, and original revenge picture for horror and pulp fans alike...
