Darkman III: Die Darkman Die
Darkman, needing money to continue his experiments on synthetic skin, steals a crate of cash from drug lord Peter Rooker...
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- Cast:
- Arnold Vosloo , Jeff Fahey , Darlanne Fluegel , Roxann Dawson , Diana Platts , Nigel Bennett , Shawn Doyle
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Undescribable Perfection
Great movie! If you want to be entertained and have a few good laughs, see this movie. The music is also very good,
Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.
The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.
Another cheap straight-to-video sequel to Darkman, This time Darkman finds himself up against drug lord Jeff Fahey, all the while developing feelings for Fahey's mistreated wife. Cheesy dialogue, terrible acting, poor action and effects. Vosloo continues to unimpress as a replacement for Liam Neeson. Fahey is a weak substitute for the hammy Larry Drake from the previous two films. Filmed back-to-back with Darkman 2. As with that mess, this has none of the creativity or craftsmanship of Sam Raimi's Darkman. The writing is truly terrible. Some of the lines will make you wince with embarrassment for the poor actors who have to speak them. The title is appropriate because this was the death of Darkman as a viable movie franchise.
The second sequel to Darkman is action packed but lacks the greatness of its prequel, Darkman.The action scenes are good and the acting by the returning Darkman played by Arnold Vosloo are good.This sequel is a good film but I prefer the original Darkman first.
Dr Peyton Westlake continues to live in the City's sewer system, hiding his disfigured face and working on his synthetic skin. When he steals money from a criminal gang to buy more medical equipment he draws the attention of Peter Rooker. Rooker uses Dr Thorne to get to Westlake and work out how he has become so strong. With Rooker planning to create a small army of `Darkmen' Westlake must learn to trust again to overcome Rooker's plan.Despite the fact that this was another direct to video sequel and that it was shot at the same time as Darkman 2, it is actually quite good. In terms of the basic story it could have been better (creating super strong street thugs) but really there is plenty in the plot to enjoy. Westlake posing as Rooker and finding joy in Rooker's family life etc brings more humanity to the film than was done in part 2. Obviously the plot does has weaknesses it's very short for one, it's quite clichéd for another, although there are nice touched around Rooker.The use of OTT visuals and nightmare vision scenes is retained and very like Rami's style in fact some of the shot almost mirror the first film. While Westlake lacks some of the craziness that he had in the first film he is still a tortured soul it's just a shame that this is mixed with the image of him as a sort of Batman figure.Vosloo (best know as the Mummy) isn't as good as Neeson and sounds like he's reading some of his voice over lines. However he still does OK, but it's pertinent that he takes second billing behind Fahey. It's not Vosloo's fault that his character has become an ill-conceived Batman type. Fahey may well be playing an one-dimensional character but he does it well. He's not a great actor but he can hold his own in TVM's and video movies! The rest of the cast are OK but suffice to say you're never in any doubt that this never saw the inside of many cinemas.Overall it's not brilliant but it's actually quite good certainly better than the second. Basically you know what know what you're getting and it doesn't let you down. Also it's got a really cool title .'Die Darkman, Die' B-movie homage or what!
The first Darkman movie was awesome. The 2nd was stupid. Durant comes back from the dead to torment Darkman once more, please. If you're in the kind of chopper crash he was in, you're dead and you stay dead.This sequel however was pretty good. Darkman is tricked by a doctor into allowing a procedure to reconnect his nervous system, but instead it's connected to some kind of electric shock device. She uses it on him if he doesn't obey her.Darkman's skin formula and diskette the forumula's on are stolen by the doctor's boyfriend Rooker. Darkman has to try to get them back, but while he's doing this, ends up falling in love with Rooker's emotionally battered wife and child.The movie would've been better if it wasn't done on a shoe string budget with lowgrade special effects (like garbage cans sailing into the air when they explode, please). But it's still a step up from the 2nd movie.