Directed by:
Mark Steven JohnsonScreenplay:
Mark Steven JohnsonCinematography:
Ericson CoreComposer:
Graeme RevellCast:
Ben Affleck, Jennifer Garner, Michael Clarke Duncan, Colin Farrell, Joe Pantoliano, Jon Favreau, David Keith, Erick Avari, Paul Ben-Victor, Derrick O'Connor (more)VOD (3)
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He dwells in a world of external night--but the blackness is filled with sounds and scents, tastes and textures that most cannot perceive. Although attorney Matt Murdock is blind, his other four senses function with superhuman sharpness. By day, Murdock represents the downtrodden. At night he is Daredevil, a masked vigilante stalking the dark streets of the city, a relentless avenger of justice. For Daredevil justice is blind--and for the guilty, there's hell to pay. (official distributor synopsis)
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It’s been a long time that I have sympathized so much with the hero of a movie. I was incredibly jealous of Matt’s blindness - at least he doesn’t have to watch hogwash like this. On the other hand, I wouldn’t like to be gifted with his acute hearing, since I would probably have gone stark raving mad listening to the teen hit-parade soundtrack. That devil should be rotting in hell, with Johnson rotting with him. And they could take Jennifer Garner too, in fact the whole cast for good measure. Maybe only Farrell deserves to be left behind on the earth’s surface. In any case, this is a criminal failure at depicting one of the few engaging superheroes who, when approached seriously, darkly and in psychological noir style (hi there, Bendis), he doesn’t even need his action superhero alter ego.
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If the rule applied that the better the villain, the better the movie, Daredevil would be the best comic book adaptation. But even Colin Farrell, who thoroughly enjoys his role as Bullseye, cannot save the unremarkable action. On the other hand, I can't say that I was bored, even though Ben Affleck wanted to push me in that direction. Critics of Ben's acting always make me laugh, but here, unfortunately, he truly is a tragic blind hero. When combined with an unexpectedly overly romanticized central storyline and the absence of Daredevil's typical grittiness, this was a missed opportunity, and combined with the Elektra spin-off, a perfect blind alley.
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Daredevil is a relatively entertaining movie with great jokes, but it’s unintentionally comical in the dramatic moments. Colin Farrell is great, Ben Affleck seems bored and Michael Clarke Duncan doesn’t fit in at all. And the action is routine. This is just an average comic-book movie and it’s the first one that made me want the bad guy to kick the main character’s ass, which surely was not what the filmmakers were aiming for.
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I liked this film in its day. Even though Ben looks pretty odd with highlights and as a blind man, I still think it's better than, say, Green Lantern. I quite enjoyed the film in the movie theater those years ago, mainly because there wasn't as much of the comic book genre yet, although films of this type were already on the rise with much less clichéd scripts and characters. Fortunately, the comic showed me that this character doesn't need to be condemned. Moreover, thanks to this, I developed a crush on Jennifer Garner. But Ben was faster...
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I don't know what it is, but in hindsight, Daredevil isn't that bad anymore. It's simply a classic comic book movie with extremely boring action, but a few good moments and jokes, with a wooden Ben Affleck, a beautiful Jennifer Garner and Michael Clarke Duncan, who was perfect as Kingpin. Nothing groundbreaking, but still better than Ghost Rider.
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