Daredevil (DVD)

...by his superhero alter-ago – Daredevil – The Man Without Fear. Swinging through the city on a specially adapted billy-club, he avenges and revenges but is all too human. His human side leads to fall for the elusive Elektra – who by proxy is wrapped up in the evil machinations of the Kingpin. Can Daredevil find the Kingpin? Can he stop the rogue assassin Bullseye from being naughty? And who is that woman who looks exactly like Elektra who is poncing ...
...remain. Opening on a bloodied Daredevil draped over a cross on a church spire is a great image – but irrelevant until the last 15 minutes or so of the movie. The next sticking point that makes me cringe is the “radar-vision”. Director Mark-Steven Johnson employs a CGI device that shows us what Daredevil “sees”. It’s blue and x-ray looking. And a tad over-used. If a better actor (thank jeebers it wasn’t Vin Diesel as was once considered) had been ...

peppersinclaire 21.04.2004 (19.05.2004) · Read full review
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...hero herself and goes after Daredevil for revenge. Meanwhile the Kingpin -a hugely influential gangster- watches over the crime and punishment, meddling himself - with disastrous consequences. Daredevil is a brave Hollywood comic-book hero movie; its darker and more adult than many of the others and wrestles with themes that a lot of action movies would shy away from, its fight scenes are gritty and realistic and the eventual outcome is moving in ...
...seem at odds. Daredevil does have its nice moments. Most of them include the vibrant and beautiful Jennifer Garner- but I will come to her later-. Unlike many I quite enjoyed the central romance, it doesn't require too much investment but is still emotional enough to make an impact, both the romantic leads are believable as a couple and the script captures some beautiful moments. The most romantic sequence arises when Elektra takes the blind assassin ...

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Daredevil is a further adaptation of a super hero comic that is written and directed by Mark Steven Johnson that was released back in February 2003. ****Story line**** Matt Murdock (Ben Affleck), a schoolboy, loses what most consider to be the most important sense after a run I with some toxic chemicals. With the loss of a sense all his other senses become stronger in order to compensate, with one becoming very strong. Matt develops a sixth ‘radar’ ...
...heroes I don’t think that Daredevil is that good. His ‘super power’ if you can call it that, is poor in comparison and I struggle to see how it can get so powerful, especially since he is ‘self taught’. I appreciate that when you lose one sense the other senses are meant to improve to compensate for it but I don’t think that if you lose one sense all of a sudden you become powerful. The way that Superman got his powers (i.e. being an alien) and Spiderman ...

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...a second X Men movie. Daredevil is far less known in this country than in his native America, where Daredevil comics have been immensely popular since the 1960s. A few years ago, the title was cancelled and relaunched with a new edgier look, under the more mature Marvel Knights banner. It was an incredibly successful change and probably secured the possibility of a feature-length Daredevil film. Whilst I am a long-term fan of many Marvel Comics, ...
...how things should work. Daredevil has a darker, more violent feel to it than the Spiderman movie. This is reflected in its 15 certificate, but right from the start, the film seems gritty and stark, and lacks any real sense of fun or adventure. Part of the appeal of Spiderman was the excitement and adventure experienced by the young Peter Parker as he gradually became accustomed to his powers. Daredevil is a much more tragic tale, and portrays a ...

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...I sat down and slung Daredevil into my DVD player. It follows on the trend of turning comic books into feature length films. With the likes of Spiderman, X Men and the League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen also being moved onto the big screen, Hollywood appears to have gone mad over comic book conversions, but how does this one fair. During school Matt had things tough, his dad was a boxer but he wasn’t really in any shape to defend himself, always being ...
...However by night Matt is Daredevil a superhero who wrecks revenge on those he feels have done wrong, bringing them to justice, one day hoping to find the man who killed his father. He meets Elektra Natchios (Jennifer Garner) the daughter of one of the cities wealthiest men, Nikolas Natchios (Erick Avari). Who just happens to be one of the allies of the new head of the city, the Kingpin (Michael Clarke Duncan) but he wants out. The Kingpin isn’t ...

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When I first heard Daredevil was to make the transition to the silver screen I was skeptical that a faithful movie could ever be made. When I heard that Ben Affleck was to portray the blind hero, any hope I had for the movie disappeared (apart from Chasing Amy I’ve been unimpressed with just about everything I’ve seen him do). So you can imagine my surprise when I left the cinema thinking ‘that wasn’t half bad’ and on reflection I think the Daredevil ...
...the movie. The New York Daredevil inhabits is a foreboding place, it ain’t called Hells Kitchen for nothing and we soon see Daredevil has no time for criminals, his one concern is justice. I have only a few gripes about the movie, the main one being that Ben Affleck, while in his Matt Murdock mode, just didn’t cut it. He just looks like he's trying too hard, like the scene had been rehearsed and rehearsed until any spontaneity had been squeezed ...

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...As in Spider-Man, the computer-generated daredevil moves more fluidly than a real human being ever could. Computer graphics are also used to demonstrate Murdocks "sight". It is realised in much the same way as the aliens’ vision in "Pitch Black", with images made up of tiny dots which cluster around solid objects, creating light and shade. A kind of pointillism for the 21st century. It is very effective and gives the impression that Murdock ...
...the mood of the movie and ranges from (a little too much) heavy rock to appropriately sad songs. So, is it any good? Erm, the short answer is "yes". With its flashy visuals and frenetic pace, you never have the chance to get bored and it seems a lot shorter than its two-hour running time. It somehow meshes the gothic sensibilities of the early Batman movies (troubled hero, night shoots, a city in trouble) with the pantomime excesses of Flash Gordon ...

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...or what is Daredevil? Daredevil follows hot on the heels of X-Men and Spiderman in Hollywood's race to grab as many comic book heroes and put them onto the small screen as they can. Daredevil was born Matt Murdoch, a young boy growing up in Hells Kitchen in New York, being raised by his boxer father. After seeing his dad rough someone up he dashes away, a fork lift truck swerves to avoid him and crashes into hazardous waster, covering the young ...
...father is killed, believing that Daredevil did it, she goes hunting for revenge, where did her powers come from? If revenge can suddenly make you jump tall buildings then I want some!! Bullseye, oh dear Lord what can I say about him, evilness personified, I was led to believe by some of the reviews, he's a joke, yes the bit on the aeroplane is funny, but the rest was clichied and awful, about as scary as the socks you find under the bed, having ...

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...am a fan of the Daredevil character. I love the comics, and so the thought of a film version was an appealing one. Of course, that probably biases my opinion of the film, slightly, but I'll try to be as even-handed as I can with this review. The film version of Daredevil has been 'in the works' since before X-Men and Spider Man, but until the success of those two films, it was considered a box office risk and had a low budget associated with the ...
...to play Matt Murdock / Daredevil couldn't have harmed things. Now the big names started to roll in. Two more big DD fans, director Mark Steven Johnson and the enormous Michael Clarke Duncan as crime overlord The Kingpin followed, with Alias star Jennifer Garner taking the lead female role, Elektra and hot-prospect Colin Farrell as the mental assassin Bullseye filling out the main roles. And so 6 years after Fox bought the license from Marvel, Daredevil ...

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...video shop and pick up Daredevil for the boyfriend, who has wanted to watch it since it was on at the cinema a few months back. I personally wasn’t keen on watching it, but thought I’d give it a go as it has the lovely Colin Farrell in it, and also starts Ben Affleck who seems to have made more good movies than bad. Now I wish I hadn’t bothered, as I actually feel slightly stupider for watching it. THE PLOT: What plot?? Daredevil is based on a ...
...naturally, Daredevil. By day, Daredevil is better known as Matt Murdock. We are first introduced to him as he lies beaten and bloody on the floor of a church, and are told he is blind. We then get a flashback that informs us that his dad used to be a boxer named the Devil (hence Daredevil presumably) and one day young Matt spotted his dad beating up someone in an attempt to get money for a Mob boss he claimed he didn’t work for. Matt runs away shocked, ...

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...never a massive fan of Daredevil so I wasn’t going to be too bothered if they strayed away from the source material. However, a lack of reviews in the movie mags and a general “bad” feeling meant I went into the film with low expectations on the actual quality of the movie. After seeing the film, I can report that it is one of the closest adaptations of any comic to the source material and a damn fine film as well. The film begins ...
...things happen after this and Daredevil is born. Jump to the present and Matt (Ben Affleck) is a lawyer running a struggling law firm with his partner, Foggy Nelson (Jon Favreau). His powers allow him to sense if people are lying so when a criminal escapes justice in the courtroom, Daredevil can dish out his own justice at night. Daredevil is a man without fear, jumping off a building or into a packed club full of gun toting low-life’s. Unfortunately ...

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...at DareDevil. She thinks that DareDevil was responsible for her father’s death (kind of like Harry Osbourne believed Spiderman was responsible for his father’s death, who was really the Green Goblin). In reality, DareDevil was framed by the assassin Bullseye, nicknamed because of his bullseye accuracy that would put the world champion darts players to shame. Bullseye was hired by The King Pin, a powerful crime lord and ex-wrestler. The ...
...the streets either as DareDevil or Murdock the lawyer. The fight scenes in this movie were great, especially the scene next to the bench and on the roof top, both involving Affleck and Garner. You would never believe that some one who is supposed to play a blind character could move so well. It is a lot darker than Spiderman and is for a slightly older audience. Daredevil and Spiderman are very similar in some ways they both were created by accidents ...

sirmitchalot 21.06.2003 (13.08.2003) · Read full review
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...and soon X-men 2, it’s Daredevil which appears on our screens. Daredevil is a comics created by Stan Lee. Such a film was risky because Spiderman hadn’t a real success and, thus, this one could disinterest a lot of people. Ben Affleck, on purpose to attract a huger public, plays the main character. Was that a good Idea ? We are going to see that later. Daredevil had to be better than the others comics adaptations and I think that the advertising ...
...better than this one. Actually, Daredevil misses originality. The story isn’t exactly like Spideman’s or X-men’s, but we can find too much common points and I think that’s very sad. The director is Mark Steven Johnson and he made a good work. The film’s plot isn’t very good but the realisation is classical like the comics. Each catch of sight seems to be the same as the comic’s framings. Special effects are very good too : The great buildings are ...

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I went to watch Daredevil with a friend at the local cinema last weekend. I was relieved that this film was a far darker look to the Marvel comic books. The film did have that 'Batman' feel to it and was a relief after last summers colourful, child friendly 'Spider-Man'. As you may know, Mavel Comic Books have all of a sudden become 'hot property' and are being bought up left, right and centre by film studios because everyone seems to think that ...
...so good, we meet the Daredevil who seems to have a ill respect for human life when scumbags are involved. Instead of making a guy fall onto a subway track and get sliced in two by an oncoming train, if left in the hands of your friendly Neighbourhood "Spider-man", he would have stuck him to a pillar covered in sticky webbing for the police to conviently find. The dark tone then changes when we discover that Murdock has bumbling legal friends who ...

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...visual and physical attributes … Daredevil is slightly different, because although Ben Affleck is as wonderfully gorgeous as all the rest of his kind, his character suffers one extraordinary failing in that he is blind. As with all these things, however, there is some significant compensation, and our Ben, when he was involved in the car accident which took away his visual senses, found all of his other faculties wonderfully improved, such that ...
...Lippy preamble over … Daredevil is one in a long line of films based on American comic book super heroes, and certainly while Daredevil wasn’t one of the most popular, and stayed mainly in the side alley, it did attain cult status and I remember when I were a lad (lapses into faux Yorkshire accent and talks about living in a shoe box without even an outside lavvie) quite enjoying the tales of the blind lawyer Matt Murdoch (or Murdock here) and his ...

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