******SPOILERS****** Left for dead after he was blown out of his laboratory offices by the Durant Mob who were looking for a document that would be devastating to their boss Louis Strack, Colin Friels, a big time city land developer. Peyton Westlake, Liam Neeson, is recovered from the river and brought to the local hospital. In an effort to keep the pain of his injuries bearable the nerve endings to his brain were severed, but by doing that it greatly enhanced his emotions, love hate and rage among others. Those strong emotions soon came into play when he he broke out of the hospital looking first for his girlfriend Julie, Francs McDormand, and then the Durant mob and their boss Louis Strack to whom Julie worked for Strack's firm as his law partner.
Left with his mind as well as his body horribly deformed. Westlake living in a deserted factory went back to his project of developing synthetic skin to replace the burns that he received from him being attacked by the Durant Mob. The best that he could do, like before him being burned, was that the skin would last for less then 100 minutes before it would dissolve and become useless.
With an unstoppable fury Westlake/Darkman takes out his rage at the Durant Mob whom he smashes to bits and then confronts Strack and, who after telling Darkman that he doesn't have the conscience to do it, drops him some 650 feet to his death from a building site of his on the city waterfront. Strack obviously didn't know that Darkman put away Durant, Larry Drake, and his boys without any trouble to his conscience at all.
Unlike most comic super hero's Darkman didn't have a secret identity and doesn't get the girl that he loves at the end of the movie. Darkman unlike most comic book hero's is not really a crime fighter. The bad guys that Darkman takes care of in the movie were for personal reasons not for the elimination of crime from society. These are the reasons that makes Darkman unique and why the audience can personally identify with Darkman more then with most of the comic book super hero's put on film: Darkman wasn't out to save the world from evil, he was out to avenge the evil that was done to him.
Left with his mind as well as his body horribly deformed. Westlake living in a deserted factory went back to his project of developing synthetic skin to replace the burns that he received from him being attacked by the Durant Mob. The best that he could do, like before him being burned, was that the skin would last for less then 100 minutes before it would dissolve and become useless.
With an unstoppable fury Westlake/Darkman takes out his rage at the Durant Mob whom he smashes to bits and then confronts Strack and, who after telling Darkman that he doesn't have the conscience to do it, drops him some 650 feet to his death from a building site of his on the city waterfront. Strack obviously didn't know that Darkman put away Durant, Larry Drake, and his boys without any trouble to his conscience at all.
Unlike most comic super hero's Darkman didn't have a secret identity and doesn't get the girl that he loves at the end of the movie. Darkman unlike most comic book hero's is not really a crime fighter. The bad guys that Darkman takes care of in the movie were for personal reasons not for the elimination of crime from society. These are the reasons that makes Darkman unique and why the audience can personally identify with Darkman more then with most of the comic book super hero's put on film: Darkman wasn't out to save the world from evil, he was out to avenge the evil that was done to him.