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SpunkySelfTwitter It’s an especially fun movie from a director and cast who are clearly having a good time allowing themselves to let loose.

Allison Davies The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

Jakoba True to its essence, the characters remain on the same line and manage to entertain the viewer, each highlighting their own distinctive qualities or touches.

adonis98-743-186503 Darkman and Durant return and they hate each other as much as ever. This time, Durant has plans to take over the city's drug trade using high-tech weaponry. Darkman must step in and try to stop Durant once and for all. Darkman II: The Return of Durant is one of those sequels that we never really asked or needed but somehow we got. Arnold Vosloo did a pretty decent job as Darkman but he is no Liam Neeson plus the direction the film takes is no Sam Raimi either. It has some good moments and special effects but 'Darkman II' feels more like a shadow to the 1st and just terrific original film. (5/10)

kai ringler not bad at all for a sequel,, personally i thought that it would ab solutely suck without liam neeson, well i was wrong arnold vosloo does a very credible job in this one. the storyline is very good also,, i was wondering how was darkman gonna get durant this time, in the day and age of cgi and today's movie superheroes , it's very nice to know we have darkman from the 1990's to fall back on,, it's seem like for this storyline anyway that less is more,, meaning less or no cgi is better than all of that stuff that you see today. larry drake returns as durant and is as evil as ever,, he is just such a great bad guy,, maybe not as bad as his role as the evil dentist,, but still he's a villain you sure don't wanna mess, with ,, vosloo is very credible as darkman,, so all in all a very decent sequel to watch for all.

kargaan First of all in this review I would like you to meditate on the title for just a second(Darkman 2: The Return of Durant). If you have seen the first Darkman you would know that Durant dies in a fiery helicopter crash. But in this sequel somehow he survives with only a few barely noticeable scars. I was expecting at least third-degree burns but I let that go and focused on the movie as if the explosion never happened. Arnold Vosloo is the new Darkman and he does a fairly poor job at portraying him. Liam Neeson seemed to be a more powerful Darkman with extreme emotions. Arnold Vosloo seemed shallow and lacked the presence of Liam. Considering it's the second movie, I was expecting more action out of Darkman but there's virtually no action from Darkman till the end of the movie and Darkman has nothing very good to say through the entire movie. The plot was also dull and generic which really made me wanna yawn. Darkman 2: The Return of Durant is just a sorry cash-in sequel and a disgrace to the franchise.

Coventry Only very recently I found out there's a second - and even a third - Darkman movie available on the rental market. Another member of the horror forum on this website reviewed all three of them a couple of months ago, and it was through his thread and directions I found my way to "The Return of Durant" (part two) and "Die Darkman Die" (part three). Talk about anonymous releases! It's not too surprising, since the original Sam Raimi film was fairly successful and definitely showed sequel potential, but it's still weird the producers opted for such a modest and inconspicuous release. Anyway, I wasn't in too much of a hurry to track them down, but I was remotely interested in the first sequel because Larry Drake reprises his glorious role of the mega-malevolent but ultra-cool villain Robert G. Durant. Partly because he was one of the main attractions in the original but mostly because I was curious to see how exactly they would bring his character back from the death, since he died pretty nastily in a helicopter crash at the end of the first "Darkman". Here I was imagining possible scenarios where Durant would get cloned or perhaps even resurrected through using some of the advanced scientific research Peyton Westlake was researching, but nooooooooooooooo! The almighty Robert G. Durant awakes from a three year coma from one moment onto the other! How freaking unimaginative and in fact quite impossible if you remember the images of that helicopter crash. Darkman himself transformed from Liam Neeson into Arnold Vosloo (a horrible actor with the most random face) but you're not supposed to notice that and his whole romantic background with Frances McDormand suddenly vanished as well. Other than that, "Darkman II" carries on where Raimi's film finished, as Peyton Westlake still alters scientific research with prowling the crime-infested streets as an avenging angel. He finally found a partner who's able to help him with the fine-tuning of his synthetic skin development, but this doctor then gets killed by Durant and his accomplices because he's laboratory is the ideal factory to construct illegal weapons. More than reason enough for Darkman to go after Durant again and finish him off for good this time."Darkman II" isn't as disastrous as it looks, I have to admit. It's a textbook and completely unsurprising B-movie, but that doesn't mean it can't be fun. There are several grotesquely absurd action scenes with big guns and nasty falls from great heights. This franchise has a thing with characters falling from heights, for sure! The stunts and make-up effects are obviously less impressive here than in the original, but the budget was restricted and director Bradford May indisputably isn't playing in the same league as Sam Raimi. The film's main trump is Larry Drake and, of course, his sadistic one-liners and grim facial expressions. The entire movie revolves around him, and that's quite logical since Arnold Vosloo is a terrible actor. B-movie beauty queen Kim Delaney is a joy to behold as well, but her share in the script is sadly too small. Not bad if you have an hour and a half to waste, but forget everything you know about the violent and comic-book styled original masterwork.