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.

Story of a man who, due to an accident, was deformed. For that reason he was covered with fabrics, having lost the love of his life. Liam becomes a punisher seeking for revenge. He (tries to) move like a shadow. As for acting, Liam was convincing, whereas his girlfriend was a disappointment. However, the script didn't help her as well since the role she was given was not a basic one. She only existed so that the existence of the darkman could be justified.Well, can't say that I didn't like the movie, but it didn't surprise me. I anticipated what happened. The movie was attempted to be something between adventure, mystery, drama and thriller. I can't say that it totally succeeded it. In any case, you don't lose anything watching it...

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!!

I don't write reviews, i'm open minded about all films and was excited to check this out, from a perspective of someone watching it twenty years after release. Liam Neeson has come a long way since this and thankfully so because I even googled him saying this was one of his less desirable movies on reflection. Firstly the plot is riddled with humorous holes, though the first fifteen minutes play out actually well, the film isn't sure whether Darkman is a superhero or not. The fact he can set up a lab so quickly by himself with no money in a couple of days is debatable, inconsistencies often occur with masks and how long they last for, we're told 99 minutes, yet other scenes show him with a cupboard full of these things. Cut to end scene where everyone is shooting guns at nothing, even the bad guy in the end is 2 feet from Darkman with a big gun and after a dozen shots still misses him. One scene has him lose it over a pink elephant, whether it's supposed to be humor is uncertain, if it was serious then it's sooo dumb. As I said after a while you cringe and feel embarrassed for the actors. With Sam Raimi behind it there is a huge Xena feel to it with its silly action, then it's confused with making it dark and almost horror like in other scenes. The 'Quick and the Dead' by Raimi is a far cry better than this. In the end I was disappointed and kind of glad I watched it by myself. There's nothing I can really save from this movie, again twenty years ago it was probably the bomb but I doubt it, Godfather, Rocky, Star Wars all pre-date that and they were much better. Batman and Robin is less stupid, and sadly that's saying something.