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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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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I don't like Ben Affleck, and comic book adaptations that endlessly variate the decoction of Burton's Batman get on my nerves... that's why I don't really understand why I liked Daredevil so much. Perhaps because the blind hero is a nice guy, Farell is true to tradition excellent, the music is listenable, the choreography standard (albeit chaotic at times) and the atmosphere is decently darkened due to the tragedy at the end of the film. It cannot be overlooked that director Johnson is slightly above-average and does not offer us any great visual feasts, even using the gift of the main hero rather non-inventively. Despite this, Daredevil is a very pleasant and easily digestible film, which, while it cannot compete with the comic book elite, is good enough in its weight category.
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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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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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