Darkman (1990)

Tells a fascinating and unsettling true story, and does so well, without pretending to have all the answers.

A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.

This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

There's a more than satisfactory amount of boom-boom in the movie's trim running time.

It's a comic-book-like revenge caper and a tragic love story with a healthy dose of Evil Dead-like insanity thrown in for good measure.What could have been a Z-grade formulaic revenge plot is elevated thanks to Raimi's energetic filmmaking, some well-executed action, creative special effects, an awesome score, and a talented cast with a great central performance by Neeson.If you are a Raimi fan, an Evil Dead fan, or just love watching Liam Neeson being a badass; then you owe it to yourself to check out this underrated gem.

Before the Spider-Man Trilogy there was Darkman starring Liam Neeson you know it's funny how people say that Neeson became an action hero with Taken which is true but isn't this movie an action adventure movie too? Anyways Darkman is about a A brilliant scientist who was left for dead and returns to exact revenge on the people who burned him alive. Now it's been decades since i saw this movie and last night i finally saw it again and i have to say after all this time even tho it's enjoyable and it's a mix of Batman/Batman Returns it is pretty goofy and there isn't a lot of action i didn't got bored or anything but i remembered it different. Anyways this is still a movie that is very well done thanks to a very good cast, story and direction by Sam Raimi who directed the Evil Dead & Spiderman Trilogy.

Why Liam Neeson and Frances McDormand ever signed on to play the leads in this badly made low budget sci-fi/action movie is beyond me. And how Sam Raimi could direct such a crappy movie is also beyond me.This is right up there with Maniac Cop. Only with a bigger budget and better actors. But the budget is still not big enough to make the embarrassing green screen effects and fake looking explosions convincing. And even for a movie from 1990 the effects looks as bad as they did in Freejack.Larry Drake is one ugly guy and not a very good bad-guy.Do not be fooled by either the leads or the director. This movie is a bomb!!

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