Darkman (1990)

Calificación de los usuarios:

6.3/10   

Director:

Sam Raimi

Escritores (WGA):

Sam Raimi (story)
Chuck Pfarrer (screenplay) ...

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

24 agosto 1990 (USA)

Género:

Acción | Crimen | Horror | Ciencia-Ficción | Suspenso

Frase comercial:

Now, Crime Has a New Enemy, And Justice Has a New Face!

Plot:

A hideously scarred and mentally unstable scientist seeks revenge against the crooks who made him like that.

Plot Keywords:

Scientist | Revenge | Mask | Lawyer | One Word Title

Premios:

2 wins & 5 nominations

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Stylish B-Type Super Hero-Revenge Tale

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Reparto

Liam Neeson	...	Peyton Westlake / Darkman
Frances McDormand	...	Julie Hastings
Colin Friels	...	Louis Strack Jr.
Larry Drake	...	Robert G. Durant
Nelson Mashita	...	Yakitito
Jessie Lawrence Ferguson	...	Eddie Black
Rafael H. Robledo	...	Rudy Guzman
Dan Hicks	...	Skip (as Danny Hicks)
Ted Raimi	...	Rick (as Theodore Raimi)
Dan Bell	...	Smiley
Nicholas Worth	...	Pauly
Aaron Lustig	...	Martin Katz
Arsenio 'Sonny' Trinidad	...	Hung Fat
Said Faraj	...	Convenience Store Clerk
Nathan Jung	...	Chinese Warrior

También conocida como:

Darkman (Spain) [es]
El hombre sin rostro (Argentina) [es]

Duración:

96 min

País:

USA

Idioma:

Inglés

Color:

Color

Relación de Aspecto:

1.85 : 1

Sonido:

Dolby

Clasificación:

Iceland:16 | Canada:14A (Ontario) | Portugal:M/16 | Germany:18 | UK:18 (re-rating) (cut) | Finland:K-15 (uncut) (DVD rating) | Finland:K-16 (cut) (VHS version) | France:-12 | Australia:M | Finland:K-18 | Norway:18 | Sweden:15 | UK:15 (original rating) (cut) | USA:R | Singapore:PG | Germany:Película restringida en Alemania

Locaciones de Filmación:

3rd Street Tunnel, Downtown, Los Angeles, California, USA

Compañía:

Renaissance Pictures

Trivialidades:

In Durant's cabin, the laughing deer's head from Evil Dead II (1987) can be seen on the wall behind him.

Errores:

Continuidad: While holding on to the helicopter, Darkman grabs the hook and rope and lets it dangle. The rope then disappears and reappears between cuts.

Citas:

[first lines]
Eddie Black: [on phone] 'Cause he's an asshole! Tell him no. Tell him no, too. Him, tell "fuck you." No, I'm gonna be here a minute. Got some guy coming up who thinks he's gonna muscle me out of my property. Just another tough guy, that's all.

Conexiones de Película:

Referenced in Humanoids from Atlantis (1992)

Banda de Sonido:

Give It To Me

Stylish B-Type Super Hero-Revenge Tale

For a Class-B type movie and feel to it, it's pretty good....better than I anticipated. I've seen it twice and enjoyed it more the second time. I had forgotten how stylish-looking it was and it was fun to see.

What I did remember were a couple of wild scenes, such as "Darkman" (Liam Neeson) being swung around in the sky on the end of a chain from a helicopter, and the big fire scene early on which turns Neeson's character into the masked hero.

The villains in the movie are over-the-top, leading with Larry Drake's character "Durant." There also is some outrageous Rambo action which stretches way past credibility, such as people shooting from five feet away and missing our hero!

Overall, not as good as the critics would have you believe, but still entertaining. At least it has two quality actors in Neeson and Frances McDormand. Drake went on to play the infamous "Dr. Giggles." If you liked this crazy film, you'll love that one.