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6.4/10 • 1.4K

1990-08-241h 35m

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They destroyed everything he had, everything he was. Now, crime has a new enemy and justice has a new face.

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.

Directors
Sam Raimi
Editors
Bob Murawski

Top Billed Cast

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  1. Liam Neeson

    Liam Neeson

    Peyton Westlake / Darkman

  2. Frances McDormand

    Frances McDormand

    Julie Hastings

  3. Colin Friels

    Colin Friels

    Louis Strack Jr.

  4. Larry Drake

    Larry Drake

    Robert G. Durant

  5. Nelson Mashita

    Nelson Mashita

    Yakitito

  6. Jessie Lawrence Ferguson

    Jessie Lawrence Ferguson

    Eddie Black

  7. Rafael H. Robledo

    Rafael H. Robledo

    Rudy Guzman

  8. Dan Hicks

    Dan Hicks

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  9. Ted Raimi

    Ted Raimi

    Rick

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John Chard

Jun 14, 2014

7/10

Enter Darkman. Sam Raimi’s trial run for the Spider-Man franchise is a whole bunch of fun. Liam Neeson plays Dr. Peyton Westlake, a super scientist who after a major run-in with the villainous Robert G. Durant (Larry Drake), reinvents himself as Darkman, a super-anti-hero who sets about ridding L.A. of its mobsters. It’s a comic book film that isn’t based on a comic book, Raimi inventing his own tortured protagonist whilst homaging similar beings of eras past. All the silliness of such fare is here of course, overblown violence and colourful characters are frequent, but there’s good thought gone into the revenge theme, while the action sequences are often excellent. The pace hardly sags, as Raimi’s creations move about a Los Angeles that is equally decaying or affluent, and in Neeson the story has a lead actor with swagger, pathos and emotional force in abundance. 7/10

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Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
$16,000,000.00
Revenue
$48,900,000.00
Keywords
maskcorruptionexperimentgangstersuperheroburnrevengelos angeles, californiascientistmadnessoutsiderdisfigurementconflagration