DAREDEVIL (2003)

The blind Matt Murdock (Ben Affleck), a lawyer by day and superhero by night, has sworn to protect those who cannot protect themselves.  His blindness was a result of an accident with toxic waste, but the accident also provided him with sonar radar similar to what bats use to detect food.  This sonar offers him the opportunity to sense things that normal human beings cannot sense and when he combines this with his fearless behavior he becomes the one some call the Daredevil.  One day when he has coffee with his legal partner he meets Elektra Natchios (Jennifer Garner) and they fall in love with one another.  However, someone is out to harm her family and when the Daredevil attempts to help something goes wrong.  Daredevil is a superhero film with a lot of action and well choreographed fights. Nonetheless, the story falls flat when it attempts to deliver moral messages and dilemmas, since it is not followed through with and finished.  At times the film provides a choppy experience when some events in the film seem incoherent, leaveing the audience with a time filler that provides an empty feeling.

DIRECTED BY

Mark Steven Johnson

COUNTRY

USA

REVIEWED
2/14/2003
GRADE


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