Darkman II: The Return of Durant

Continuity mistake: There is a color change on Darkman's burned skin. In the beginning of the movie, in his lab, his burns are pretty much flesh colored. Later on in the movie, they are a much darker red and brown.

Character mistake: The reporter refers to a "box of ashes" being buried in Westlake's grave, whereas in the first film, all that was buried there was "an ear", which was all they could find of his body.

Revealing mistake: When the movie starts there's a car chase where a baddie throws a grenade at a car. When the burning car flips and rolls it is very obviously hollow and the driver has been replaced with some structure that doesn't resemble a man at all.

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Continuity mistake: In the opening credits, we see a re-cap of the first film. If you pay attention, in most shots Peyton/Darkman's eyes are a dark color. However, in one extreme closeup, we see one of his eyes and it's suddenly bright blue. (From where footage from the first film, featuring a different actor with different colored eyes, was used).

Revealing mistake: In Darkman's daydream where he launches himself across the boardroom table and chokes out Durant, look at his mouth when Durant rips his mask off. You can see Arnold Vosloo's real teeth behind the fake ones.

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Other mistake: When Durant and his men chase Lauri out on the streets, they are waving around their guns and causing great commotion and panic amongst bystanders. However, in certain wide shots, you can see some of the extras are standing still, and not reacting to the chaos as they were in previous shots.

Revealing mistake: After stealing the battery out of Durant's weapon near the end, as Westlake says "Batteries not included", you can see the actor's undamaged lips under the fake burn prosthetics on his face and mouth. (Look underneath the exposed teeth where his lips supposedly were burned off.).

Revealing mistake: Near the beginning, when Westlake is experimenting and his mask melts, you can clearly see that the mask is not really melting, and is just covered with suds while a "melting" sound effect plays.

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Trivia: "Darkman II" was the first direct-to-video release for Universal Studios. It was granted a larger budget in comparison to many other subsequent direct-to-video releases and had a decent marketing push, as Universal was testing the waters for movies exclusively made for the video market. The gamble with a success, with Universal continuing to release direct-to-video (and more currently, direct-to-Netflix) releases well over twenty years later.

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