Darkman DVD: Review By Comrade

If you haven't picked this fact up already, then let me let you in on this. Sam Raimi is the most dedicated man in showbiz. Whenever this guy is involved in a movie, he gives very little sh*t about the money; he just cares about making good movies that he knows audience will enjoy. Here's a guy who wanted to be apart of the Batman and the Shadow franchises but was turned down by both companies; if you ask me, they should have let him in on it. Raimi is just great in making comic book adaptations. He should have just been the man who you go to to get a director for a comic book adaptation. If Daredevil, Fantastic Four, and The Punisher were made by this guy, they would have been better than they are today, just look at the Spider man movies. You can say whatever you want about them but all three of those movies were great high octane excitement. Anyway, this guy was turned down from being apart of Shadow and Batman, so he just says the hell with yall. I'll go ahead and make my own f*cking superhero movie.

The story's about this scientist named Weslake, played by Liam Neeson; he has a girlfriend, played by Francis McDormand, who, unknowingly, works for an attorney, who's apart of a corrupt organization, assisted by a terrorist, Durant, played by the one and only, Dr. Giggles. Accidentally, Weslake's girl stumbles onto the whole organization, from some files she gathered. She was convinced that the files meant nothing, but somehow they fell into the hands of Weslake. Durant visits the good scientist, chops his finger off and blows his lab to smithereens. He's put into a coma, few days later, wakes up and takes revenge and tries to resurrect his relationship with his old girlfriend.

While Raimi was writing this movie, he must've had Liam in the back of his mind. Liam is and will always be a bad ass motherf*cker. This guy was a Jedi master, Patrick Swayze's crazy big brother on Next of Kin, and now he's this 'take no bullsh*t' former agent who's hellbent on finding his daughter. You could not think of anyone to play this crazed character, and he pulls it off so well.

Darkman is the ugliest character I've ever seen. This guy makes Freddy Krueger look like Hugh Jackman. He builds up Jason's self-esteem to where he doesn't have to wear the hockey mask anymore, because Darkman's uglier than he is. But this is a great movie, like watching a comic book on screen. I would, definitely, recommend anyone to see this. However, if you do enjoy this, please, do not get so much into this that it makes you want to see the sequels, because they should be burned.