Daredevil - The Director's Cut [Blu-ray]

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Daredevil - The Director's Cut [Blu-ray]

Starring: Ben Affleck, Erick Avari, Paul Ben-Victor, Pat Crawford Brown, Jude Ciccolella
Binding: Blu-ray
Published: 2008-09-30

$23.95

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Daredevil - The Director's Cut [Blu-ray]

Editorial Review:

20th Century Daredevil: Director's Cut (Blu-ray) Based on the popular Marvel Comics character, this is the story of Matt Murdock, son of a boxer who gets killedby petty criminals for refusing to take a dive. This drives young Matt to fight crime, despite a childhood accident that robbed him of his sight. That same accident, however, also granted him exceptionally advanced senses of hearing, touch, taste and smell, as well as providing him with a strange sort of mental radar that helps to compensate for his lack of vision. After training hard in the martial arts, as well as excelling in law school, Murdock becomes a lawyer by day and a vigilante calling himself Daredevil by night.
Darker than its popular comic-book predecessor Spider-Man, the $80 million extravaganza Daredevil was packaged for maximum global appeal, its juvenile plot beginning when 12-year-old Matt Murdock is accidentally blinded shortly before his father is murdered. Later an adult attorney in New York's Hell's Kitchen, Murdock (Ben Affleck) uses his remaining, superenhanced senses to battle crime as Daredevil, the masked and vengeful "man without fear," pitted against dominant criminal Kingpin (Michael Clarke Duncan) and the psychotic Bullseye (Colin Farrell), who can turn almost anything into a deadly projectile. Daredevil is well matched with the dynamic Elektra (Jennifer Garner), but their teaming is as shallow as the movie itself, which is peppered with Marvel trivia and cameo appearances (creator Stan Lee, Clerks director and Daredevil devotee Kevin Smith) and enough computer-assisted stuntwork to give Spidey a run for his money. This is Hollywood product at its most lavishly vacuous; die-hard fans will argue its merits while its red-leathered hero swoops and zooms toward a sequel. --Jeff Shannon

Customer Reviews:

Avg. Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0

One of the worst comicbook adaptations to make it to the big screen:

Wow. What a dud. I grew up reading Marvel comicbooks, and am embarrassed whenever I see such terrible adaptations hit the screen. And why -- leaving aside the crappy script, muddled direction, abysmal acting, murky scenery and sound design -- do they have to muck around with the original plotline so much? Why not just tell the character's story the way it was originally written? It's a shame, really.
I wish Hollywood would quit writing and producing these things by committee, and let someone with real... more info

Not Quite A Bullseye:

There are some good things about this show, and some bad things. It is a dark movie, as it should be, being that Daredevil is a dark character. Collin Farrel was absolutely perfect as Bullseye. His preformance was the best part of the movie for me. I have some reservations regarding the decision to cast Ben Affleck as the lead.
The main thing lacking is back story. They needed to show some more of Daredevil's training and explain more about how he got his powers. What they did show was just... more info

Blu Ray Director's Cut:

This film didn't have much of a chance when it came out. Fans of the comic were disdainful of the casting choices, Ben Affleck was in a paparazzi mess with J-Lo, the theatrical cut was hacked up to appeal to a younger audience..
and yet, 5 years later, the director's cut is out on BluRay, and does not include the original theatrical version, a silent admission that Mark Steven Johnson's vision was the better of the two.
'Daredevil' is an unusual superhero movie. It is a truer film-noir than most.... more info

Director Knows Best:

Director Mark Steven Johnson truly explores the shadowy aspects of justice and vigilantism in the additional 30 minutes added to the film, along with some other tweaks.
The scene which didn't make the final cut from producer Gary Foster and 20th Century Fox studio is attorney Matt Murdock (Daredevil) - portrayed by Ben Affleck - defending a murder suspect, who is played by rapper Coolio. The violence is also amped up which earned the revised film an "R" rating, a path not taken to movie theaters by... more info

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