Daredevil (2003) Critic Reviews
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The movie is, in short, your money's worth, better than we expect, more fun than we deserve.Read the full review
It's an adequate superhero yarn, but, hopefully, it's not the best of the burgeoning genre that 2003 has to offer.Read the full review
It isn't a great film, or even a greatly original one. Still, it has many grace notes, and interesting oddities. Read the full review
Unfortunately, Garner doesn't have as much screen time as her prominence in the advertising would indicate: Daredevil has a hard time staying alive when she's not on the scene. Read the full review
This franchise-hungry champion of the underdog brings no sense of fun to his pursuit of bad guys; it's just the fate he's stuck with. Read the full review
Daredevil the movie strains itself trying to catch up with Sam Raimi's web-slinging megasmash. It's a faceless copy, right down to the muscle-rock groaning on the soundtrack. Read the full review
Johnson rips off a lot of "Batman," especially in the cathedral climax, but that's not so bad: The movie looks best when it looks like other, better movies. Read the full review
Like Affleck himself, the film is perfectly satisfactory without being deeply satisfying. Read the full review
Daredevil is the sort of half-assed, visually lackadaisical potboiler that makes you rue the day that comic-book franchises ever took over Hollywood.Read the full review
Casting Affleck would have paid off had the conflicted, acerbic star of “Boiler Room,” “Changing Lanes,” or even “Bounce” shown up. Instead we're left with the cardboard hero of “Armageddon” and “The Sum Of All Fears,” a caretaker leading man wholly dependent on the quality of the movie around him. Sadly, there's not much of that.Read the full review
