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Plot: Daredevil is a man blinded by a radioactive chemical accident as a young boy but left with superhuman senses and agile acrobatic ability. Daredevil attempts to lead a normal life by day as Matt Murdock, a Hell's Kitchen defence attorney. By night Matt becomes Daredevil, a brooding superhero fighting for justice in the dark and squalid New York streets overrun with vermin and criminal injustice.
Release details
DVD Region: DVD
Studio(s): 20TH CENTURY FOX HOME ENTERTAINMENT
Release date: 23/04/2007
No of Discs: 2
Catalogue No: 2378901054
Barcode: 5039036030052
Languages
Main Language: English
DVD Description
The Marvel Comics superhero Daredevil (Ben Affleck), is a man blinded by a radioactive chemical accident as a young boy but left with superhuman senses and agile acrobatic ability. Like his Marvel compatriot Spider-Man, Daredevil attempts to lead a normal life by day as Matt Murdock, a Hell's Kitchen defence attorney. By night Matt becomes Daredevil, a brooding superhero fighting for justice in the dark and squalid New York streets overrun with vermin and criminal injustice. Wearing a red leather suit and mask, Daredevil leaps from high skyscrapers and tracks his enemies with his radar-like vision, punishing those who are guilty but whom he cannot tackle in the courtroom. At the centre of the city's villainous underbelly is Daredevil's nemesis Kingpin (Michael Clarke Duncan) and his psychotic, knife-wielding deputy-assassin Bullseye (Colin Farrell). Daredevil fights their powerful forces alone, until he meets Elektra Natchios (Jennifer Garner of ALIAS fame), a skilled martial artist and sexy superheroine who is after Bullseye and Kingpin for murdering her father. Sparks fly as the two heroes take on the underlords of crime together in this action-packed adventure fantasy that will surely delight fans of SPIDER-MAN, X-MEN, or BATMAN.
Advantages: great acting Disadvantages: only fans will think its brilliant
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Run time: 1hr 40 min
Cert: 15
The film:
The film starts with the story of Matt Murdocks (daredevil) father who was a great boxer when Matt was not born but now is a drunken man who just watches TV all day and then tells the story of how Matt became blind in a chemical accident.
After coming to terms with his blindness they make a promise to each other to work together and for his father to get back training and become a top class boxer again and for his son to live as normal life as he can with his disability which they do and his dad becomes a great boxer again but the good life is short-lived for Matt went he is discovers his father being beat up and eventually murdered in a side street of a boxing arena, after refusing to take a fall in a corrupt match that someone wanted him to lose in so Matt?s dad is murdered for it...
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Advantages: Good action, Jennifer Garner in tight leather, cool soundtrack Disadvantages: Jennifer Garner trying to act, Affleck's chin, some of the acting is a little bit cheesy!
...parents), and his deadly assassin, Bullseye (Colin Farrell).
Overall, Daredevil is a solid action/superhero film, with some great action sequences, some reasonable (in small doses) acting and a finely told story.
This 2-Disc Special Edition has a whole extra disc full of special features to enjoy. These include: A 20 minute behind the scenes featurette with cast and crew, Jennifer Garner's screen test, Music video's for Evanescence 'Wake Me Up Inside', The Calling 'For You' and Fuel 'Won't Back Down', Beyond Hell's Kitchen: The Making of Daredevil which is an enjoyable behind-the-scenes featurette looking at the making of the film with various insight from, and interviews with, director Mark Steven Johnson and Affleck et al. Oh, there is also a gag reel as a hidden Easter Egg.
Daredevil is one of those films that warrants a return...
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.... There is little consideration paid to anyone during the movie that might meet with a bullet accidentally or otherwise. The language is quite safe, no preponderance of bad language to offend just the odd swear word as and when required.
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