This is what I remember from when I watched the film as a child and it's not much. The main character, a man, is attacked by a gang in an apartment and he was left horribly disfigured and laying out on the apartment's balcony. A little later, Main Man is keeping to himself on the balcony and a man and woman (friends?) approach him and he pleads with them he wants to see his face, one hesitantly offers him a mirror, and Main Man has a breakdown seeing his reflection. Eventually Main Man becomes a vigilante in a trench coat and throws manhole covers at criminals and that stuck with me the most because I thought it was cool.
I thought the film was Darkman. I watched Darkman last night and I didn't see the parts I described here (it is a film about a disfigured vigilante though) so now I'm wondering what film I'm actually thinking of. Any help would be appreciated.
EDIT: I was probably ten when I saw this film so that would be 1995/96.