I have always liked Darkman a great deal since I originally saw it during its initial theatrical run. A truly underrated film! I do wish though that they would revisit the blu-ray as the original blu-ray that I own had way too much digital noise reduction (DNR) applied that made everybody look like they had been dipped in candle wax.
Just a matter of opinion I guess. Personally I don't think it looks as bad as the DNR Predator re-release. Here's a review from Blu-ray.com about Darkman's image quality:
Darkman is as schizophrenic on Blu-ray as Peyton Westlake becomes after his unfortunate "accident." Arriving from Universal with a VC-1 encoded 1080p image in an aspect ratio of 1.85:1, Darkman can be appealingly sharp, with well saturated colors one moment, and then distressingly soft and blanched the next. I have to lay most of this to the source elements, though one has to wonder why such a widely variant quality is so evident here. For instance, the opticals behind the opening title sequence look horrible--dirty, grainy and soft beyond even what one might regularly ascribe to mist and clouds. Contrast that with "Peyton"'s first identity swap, in Pauly's (Nicholas Worth) room, where detail is extremely crisp and colors and contrast are incredibly strong. As befits its title, a lot of this film plays out in shadow and dusk, and for the most part black levels are excellent. The film elements do display occasional scratches, flecks and other blemishes, so if DNR was applied (and it sure doesn't look like it was to me), it was done very minimally.
