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.
3 August 1950, Chicago, Illinois, USA
1965, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
14 December 1965, Detroit, Michigan, USA
1 February 1955, The Bronx, New York, USA
31 August 1958, Detroit, Michigan, USA
23 June 1957, Chicago, Illinois, USA
8 June 1941, The Bronx, New York, USA
6 January 1930, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
17 August 1958
30 November 1944, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
1956, Michigan, USA
24 December 1957, Walnut Lake, Michigan, USA
13 February 1966, Dorchester, Massachusetts, USA
15 August 1951, New York City, New York, USA
1950, USA
17 August 1923, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
22 June 1958, Birmingham, Michigan, USA
29 November 1954, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
May 01, 2014
Raimi, in 1990, made the best comic-book movie there ever was...
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.
March 13, 2014
It's a fun, gruesome, and original revenge picture for horror and pulp fans alike...
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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 26, 2006
Wild, woolly and occasionally wondrous.
