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Daredevil (Movie Review)
("D+
--
Really
unfulfilling and also one of the worst superhero movies ever")
by
Craig Younkin
Daredevil is the most recent Marvel comic superhero turned
movie star. |
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This guy was blinded
many years ago (in his youth) by some toxic waste, but luckily
enough, his other senses increased in productivity. He begins
to train his body as a boy, and when a local gangster kills
his father he commits himself to fighting for justice. By
day, he is Matt Murdock (Ben Affleck), a lawyer who is only
interested in defending clients who are innocent. By night, he
is Daredevil, a guy in a red leather suit who looks kind of
like the old Dominos pizza mascot; only he is a conflicted
hero. A guy who believes he's doing right by ridding the world
of its scum, but also a guy who is doing it through violence
and evil himself. The rest of the movie deals with two
villains; one called Kingpin (Michael Clarke Duncan), and the
other, an assassin who would be a sure thing for NBA MVP
called Bullseye (Colin Farrell). Neither one is that
interesting nor evil, but through two very good performances
we get two fun villains. The love interest here is the very
sexy Elektra (Jennifer Garner), a woman who is also looking
for revenge herself.
Despite the absence of anything that even resembles a plot,
this movie's biggest problem is the lame, boring characters.
This movie only scratches the surface of Stan Lee’s comic book
characters. Murdock and Elektra's back-stories have dramatic
possibilities, but their not given much chance to express the
anger and sadness that would make them compelling heroes.
Affleck also isn't the right choice for this movie. His good
looks combined with blank expression don't make him seem like
the right choice to join the ranks of the great superheroes.
Murdock is much like Batman, only Affleck doesn't look like
the reclusive, vengeance-addicted sort.
Other than the boring characters, there are also a lot of
incomprehensible action sequences. Director Mark Steven
Johnson wants us to understand how Daredevil makes it through
a battle, but everything moves so fast and Johnson is throwing
so much at the screen that it's almost impossible to make
anything out. Not to mention that there are about four actions
sequences in this movie and none of them come anything close
to exciting. Then you also have those scenes where Johnson and
apparently the studio had no confidence in their product.
Somehow Daredevil manages to jump fifty feet in the air and
jump from building to building with no trouble whatsoever. It
looks like a blatant rip-off of Spiderman.
Daredevil is really unfulfilling and is also one of the
worst superhero movies ever, positioned right before Batman
and Robin. With any luck, this won't become a franchise.
Grade: D+ |
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