Daredevil (2003) Critic Reviews

Tacky and disposable. 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

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

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

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

Like Affleck himself, the film is perfectly satisfactory without being deeply satisfying. Read the full review

An action blockbuster that's one of the biggest misfires in its genre since "Godzilla."Read the full review

Kevin Smith shows up briefly as a lab technician in the miserable Daredevil, and that's a pity. This is a movie that desperately needs the presence of Smith's trademark sidekicks Jay and Silent Bob, with Smith as Bob, ragging worse than ever on his old pal Ben Affleck. Read the full review