Daredevil

For the first half I enjoyed how briskly and insightfully it was filmed. But then I got bored with it and even the great Farrell couldn't save it. The fight scenes have pizzazz, Daredevil's perception was well presented, but the rest wasn't worth much. It needed more action and less posing and pathos. Bullseye had very little space and Affleck doesn’t fit in the role of a super-hero, although he wasn’t that bad. (15/06/2003)

If the rule applied that the better the villain, the better the movie, Daredevil would be the best comic book adaptation. But even Colin Farrell, who thoroughly enjoys his role as Bullseye, cannot save the unremarkable action. On the other hand, I can't say that I was bored, even though Affleck wanted to push me in that direction. Critics of Ben's acting always made me laugh, but here, unfortunately, he truly is a tragic blind hero. In combination with an unexpectedly overly romanticized central storyline and the absence of Daredevil's typical grittiness, this was a missed opportunity, and combined with the Elektra spin-off, it was a perfect blind alley. (13/05/2006)

Daredevil is a relatively entertaining movie with great jokes, but it’s unintentionally comical in the dramatic moments. Colin Farrell is great, Ben Affleck seems bored and Michael Clarke Duncan doesn’t fit in at all. And the action is routine. This is just an average comic-book movie and it’s the first one that made me want the bad guy to kick the main character’s ass, which surely was not what the filmmakers were aiming for. (19/02/2003)

I liked it at the time. And even though Ben looks weird with highlights and kind of blind, I still think it's better than, for example, "Green Lantern". I enjoyed the movie in the cinema years ago, mainly because there weren't as many comic book adaptations back then, even though movies of this kind were already on the rise with less cliched scripts and characters. Fortunately, the comic showed me that this character is not to be condemned. In addition, thanks to this, I fell for Jennifer Garner. But Ben was faster... (21/01/2014)

I don't know what it is, but in hindsight, Daredevil isn't that bad anymore. It's simply a classic comic book movie with extremely boring action, but a few good moments and jokes, with a wooden Ben Affleck, a beautiful Jennifer Garner and Michael Clarke Duncan, who was perfect as Kingpin. Nothing groundbreaking, but still better than Ghost Rider. (03/06/2010)