Darkman III - The Experiment

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Movie
German title Darkman III - The Experiment
Original title Darkman III - The Darkman Die
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1996
length 87 minutes
Age rating FSK 18
Rod
Director Bradford May
script Michael Colleary
Mike Werb
production David Roessel
music Randy Miller
camera Bradford May
cut Daniel T. Cahn
occupation
chronology

←  Predecessor
Darkman II - Durant Returns

Darkman III - The Experiment is an American television film from 1996 and the second sequel to the film Darkman , which, like Part 2, was released as a direct-to-video production. The film was released in Germany on November 14, 1996 on VHS .

action

To fund his research, Peyton Westlake steals money from criminal gangs, most recently from drug baron Peter Rooker, who is fascinated by his strength.

Westlake himself is now on the verge of a breakthrough, he has succeeded in producing a sample of his liquid skin that lasts longer than 99 minutes, but he does not have the technical means to analyze the sample precisely.

Rooker wants to find out the secret of Darkman's superhuman strength and buys the doctor Dr. Bridget Thorne, the burn specialist Westlake treated after the explosion. Dr. Thorne goes in search of him and wins his trust. She explains to him that she has developed a new method with which she can reactivate his nerve center in order to restore his sense of touch. She also offers him to let him work with her "DNA sequencer" in order to produce sufficient amounts of his liquid skin.

However, she only installs a sensor in him, which, triggered by remote control, triggers violent pain impulses and Rooker takes his test bottle with the permanent liquid skin and the only copy of his diskette with his research results. Westlake is being held as a guinea pig. Tissue samples are taken from him, from which a new type of drug is to be developed that increases physical strength many times over.

Westlake manages to free himself and remove the pain sensor. Now he is setting out to get his research back. He gets to know Rooker's wife and daughter and develops feelings for the two of them who actually only suffer from their brutal and negligent husband and father.

In a kind of quarry there is a showdown between the gang boss and Westlake, who was able to smash his organization in the well-known manner with masks and voice exercises. Rooker shows his ruthlessness by using his own family as a shield. During the altercation, a pipe burst with hot steam and scalded the face of Rooker's daughter Jenny. The latter destroys Westlake's diskette in the course of the fight and finally falls into a machine for crushing stones.

Jenny is brought to the hospital and is already being prepared for a skin transplant, when Westlake appears in a doctor's coat and gives her his only sample of the permanent liquid skin.

The little girl's face is restored and Darkman retreats into the night alone.

Reviews

  • Lexicon of international films : Another continuation of a successful horror film, which does not find any new facets in its simply constructed plot and reduces the main character to the function of a popular figure.
  • Cinema : Arnold Vosloo also appeared almost entirely in a decayed state as “The Mummy”. No wonder that, in contrast to the first “Darkman” Liam Neeson, his career was denied. Thanks to the weak script and the much more present villain Jeff Fahey, Sam Raimi's variant of the "Phantom of the Opera" looks twice old this time.

backgrounds

  • Some plot elements have been changed, such as: B. in the prologue, in which the "birth" of the Darkman is shown.
  • The combustion specialist Dr. Bridget Thorne is a new character who was added to the story afterwards.
  • While Part 1 and Part 2 talked about masks cast in the form of molds, Darkman's artificial skin in Part 3 is a liquid that, when applied, takes on the desired shape.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Darkman III - The Experiment. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed February 22, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used