Smell the Movies
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A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
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| Year: | 1994 |
| Country of origin: | USA |
| Director: | Bradford May |
| Genre: | Comic book adaptation |
| Starring: | Larry Drake, Arnold Vosloo, Kim Delaney |
| Rating: | 3/5 |
| IMDB link: | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109552/ |
| Tagline: | Vengeance strikes hardest in the dark. |
| Favourite line: | "Be careful - he bites!" |
Darkman returns in a sequel that is little more than a remake of the original, though without the directorial panache that Sam Raimi brings to proceedings.
Gone too is Liam Neeson - clearly too expensive by this point - and in his place is Arnold Vosloo, one of those actors who has been in loads of things, though you can never really remember him.
It's not a bad film all round - Durant and his cronies want a piece of land for their criminal activities, but, wouldn't you know it, a scientist who just happens to be experimenting on photo-sensitive flesh-like polymers refuses to sell up. Step to the plate Mr Darkman, to assist him against the forces of tyranny of the finger removal type, and you've got a dark comic book caper.
Enjoyable, for sure, though I couldn't credit it as being unmissable.
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