Daredevil

I'm pretty sure that this film meant to be something else. So many deft comparisons of vision and sound -- reflections in mirrors and glasses, how Ben Affleck's character uses his extra- sensory capacity, what happens when it rains -- but this premise is downplayed and confused because they had to modify the film to compete with X-Men and Spider-Man and The Matrix (X-Men became wildly popular as they were filming this). OK, so a film about a comic-book hero is going to have a lot of action in it anyway, but it's obvious that many of the action and CGI animation sequences were tacked on after the script was finished. Daredevil, for the uninitiated, is a blind lawyer/superhero who meets the woman of his dreams but loses her when he fights the bad guy, Bullseye. Everyone in the film is slumming -- not much thoughtful acting happening -- especially Colin Farrell. He showed such promise in Tigerland but hasn't lived up to that eyebrow-raising performance. I hear Phone Booth is supposed to be decent, thank goodness. For the those in the know, there are some cameos by famous artists and moguls within the comics world. Even the characters are named after artists who have done stints drawing Daredevil. So, at least that part was fun.

year: 2003
length: 103 min.
rating: 2.0
IMDB link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0287978/combined