Darkman sustains mild interest throughout, but it never takes off, partly because a real-estate scam, gangland shootouts, city corruption and a love story clutter up the sad story of Westlake's strange mutation.

Caryn James

The New York Times

Darkman, as unnerving as a gargoyle, is a classic nightmare, elegant and sumptuous, everything Batman should have been. But we're numbed after a while, as we are by the grotesquerie of the nightly news. Then again, maybe that's Raimi's intention. His work is beautiful in its scary way, and never only skin deep.

Rita Kempley

Washington Post

Certainly not Raimi at his best, but some knowing genre nods and an array of great effects make up much of the deficit.

Ian Nathan

Empire