Daredevil

The film Daredevil features the secret life of Matt Murdock, a blind lawyer from Hell’s Kitchen. Murdock meets and falls in love with Electra, the daughter of a wealthy politician? In both his personal and professional life, Murdock is thriving; however, Kingpin, the man who killed Matt Murdock’s father when he was 12 is still on the loose and still the mastermind behind many crimes. Kingpin has hired Bullseye, an evil man with a killer shot, to do his dirty work.

At this point, the reader may be curious how a blind man can pass as a superhero. Matt Murdock has compensated for the loss of his sight by developing keen hearing. He uses sound waves to “see” much like how bats use sonar. Rain helps him see the best because “each raindrop hitting a surface makes a sound”. This whole idea, along with the graphics available in 2003, seems, well, cheesy. The entire idea of this is difficult to believe.

In addition, it seems as though the director or producer obtained several of their ideas from pre-existing superheros. Now, I have never read the comic book so I am not sure if these were present before the film, but in the movie it seems as though they borrowed powers from Spiderman and Batman. Matt Murdock’s seeing-eye cane has many of the same powers as Batman’s belt and he uses a wire that shoots from his stick to swing through the air much like Spiderman. Because this movie came out in 2003, it proceeded the Batman Begins franchise, but Spiderman came out in 2002.

Besides the terrible graphics, the improbability of Murdock’s way of seeing, and the borrowed powers, my one other problem is the acting. This has nothing to do with the storyline, but Ben Affleck’s monotone voice is the worst I’ve seen him in any movie…including Mallrats. My one other question; in this film

*SPOILIER ALERT* Electra, Murdock’s girlfriend, is killed by Bullseye, but doesn’t she have an entire spinoff movie based on her life? It is possible that is a prequel, but still. Either way, this movie is a disappointment in regards to superhero movies. The only one it is better than is the Eric Bana version of “The Incredible Hulk”.