Fresh
Raimi isn't effective with his actors, and the dialogue lacks smart menace, but his canny visual sense carries many a scene.
Richard Corliss, TIME Magazine
Darkman
They destroyed everything he had, everything he was. Now, crime has a new enemy and justice has a new face.
1990 · 1h 35m · R
Action, Science Fiction, Thriller
Directed by
Sam Raimi
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Darkman
Overview
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.
Director and cast
- Sam Raimi Director
- Liam Neeson as Peyton Westlake / Darkman
- Frances McDormand as Julie Hastings
- Colin Friels as Louis Strack Jr.
- Larry Drake as Robert G. Durant
- Nelson Mashita as Yakitito
- Jessie Lawrence Ferguson as Eddie Black
- Rafael H. Robledo as Rudy Guzman
- Dan Hicks as Skip
- Ted Raimi as Rick
- Dan Bell as Smiley
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
80%
Tomatometer
Fresh
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.
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
Rotten
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.
Caryn James, New York Times
Fresh
Raimi's live-action comic book aims to deliver scares spiked with laughs. That it does.
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
Fresh
A fiendishly stylish journey that links the classics of transfiguration to the terrors of our times.
Rita Kempley, Washington Post
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