A frenetic funhouse ride that has you laughing and screaming at the same time.
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01/01/00
Darkman (1990)
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Reviews Counted:41
Fresh:31
Rotten:10
Average Rating:6.5/10
Runtime: 1 hr 53 mins
Genre: Science-Fiction/Fantasy
Synopsis: A scientist disfigured by a gang of sadistic criminals develops a mask-like second skin which allows him to change identities. Peyton Westlake, his face hidden behind bandages, is transformed into... [More]
Starring: Liam Neeson, Frances McDormand, Colin Friels, Larry Drake
Director: Sam Raimi
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Reviews for Darkman
Top CriticIt comes on exceptionally strong, sure of itself and its basic, primitive hold on the audience.
01/01/00
Director Sam Raimi weaves a fantasy world of exaggerated mayhem for Leeson to leap about in.
04/25/01
This is one wild ride.
01/01/00
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.
05/20/03
Top CriticThis is the kind of dark, psychotic hero who could have kept us blackly entertained for years.
01/01/00
A fiendishly stylish journey that links the classics of transfiguration to the terrors of our times.
01/01/00
Top CriticIt's one of those not-all-that-well-known movies that I would recommend to anyone who really loves movies. Unforgettable.
09/10/02
The tone of the film abruptly shifts to tongue-in-cheek toward the end, damaging the feeling.
01/01/00
Certainly not Raimi at his best, but some knowing genre nods and an array of great effects make up much of the deficit.
01/01/00
...great explosive scenes, surreal dream sequences with lots of reds and yellows, and really gloomy scenes in darkened alleyways
04/21/02
One of the lamer superheroes in comic book and movie history.
10/24/02
Raimi's over-the-top filmic style tries too hard for cult movie status and becomes boring somewhere along the line. True cult movies are however born, not made, that way.
01/01/00
Simultaneously funny and thrilling.
11/07/02
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.
06/04/07
Top CriticIf you get a chance, see this movie in a theater because there is no way in the world a television screen can fully contain the stunning imagery of this film.
03/16/03
A wild ride in dumb escapist sci-fi hokum.
03/24/07
Raimi's live-action comic book aims to deliver scares spiked with laughs. That it does.
05/12/01
Top CriticIt's all very colorful and pulpy and (thanks to Raimi's mega-slick direction) a real treat for the senses.
08/13/07
Despite occasional silliness, Sam Raimi's Darkman has more wit, pathos and visual flamboyance than is usual in contemporary shockers.
06/04/07
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