Once again, Arnold Vosloo can't get top billing in a movie where he's the hero. What's up with that? I wish I could say this recaptured the sense of fun and potential of the first Darkman movie, but it looks like it was filmed pretty much concurrently with Darkman II.
Darkman (Arnold Vosloo) is still trying to get his skin formula to work, buying medical equipment with the money he gets from ripping off bad guys. But when he blatantly robs Peter Rooker's (Jeff Fahey) drug dealing, he draws some very unwanted attention. Rooker is looking for something to juice up his henchmen and he is very impressed with Darkman's ability to not feel pain. And he's not the only one. Dr. Bridget Thorn (Darlanne Fluegel) was one of the original doctors that worked on Darkman when he first got blown up. She was the one who severed his nerves in the first place and she tracks him down in order to fix her mistake. Excited at the prospect of being able to feel again, Darkman allows a woman he doesn't know to perform major surgery on him. This turns out to be a stupid idea, as she is working for Rooker all along and plans to use Darkman's adrenaline samples to create a super-steroid.
This movie is pure cheese. On the plus side, it makes Jeff Fahey's involvement in Machete make a lot more sense.
Additionally, I watched the mini-series Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome this weekend as well. It's not as in-depth as Caprica but it's okay.Young William Adama (Luke Pasqualino) is a hotshot ensign fresh out of the Academy and assigned to the Galactica during the First Cylon War. He is looking forward to making a name for himself but his commander (Brian Markinson) thinks a more staid mission will cool him down. Adama is assigned to a "milk run" with co-pilot Coker (Ben Cotton), who is finishing up his mandatory second tour, on a four-day mission to transport goods and pick up spare parts. The goods in question turn out to be software engineer Dr. Becca Kelly (Lili Bordan), out on a super-secret mission.
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