Review Of Daredevil
Submitted by barfbean on 06/30/2008 05:21 PM
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Review Of Daredevil
DAREDEVIL
Rating: Poor
The first thing that struck me about superheroes even before the underwear jokes came up was the tight suits. What’s it with superhuman strength and tight fitting clothing? And also the masks that don’t really conceal anything.
Daredevil is a stranger in these streets. The Indian audience haven’t really heard of most of the other Marvel Comic heroes apart from the customary ones. Chances are that they would confuse Daredevil with The Flash from Justice League. Yes, this one wears a tight fitting red costume too. And yes this one also is an ingenuous working Joe when he isn’t wearing his tight fitting costume thumping bad guys.
So ‘Daredevil’ is based on the popular Marvel Comics character, this is the story of Matt Murdock, son of a boxer who gets killed by 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.
The movie is an epitome for cheap shots. Apparently we live in a world where the first thing you need before you seek revenge is a costume. No, I’m not getting at the characters the comics brought in or their attributes or the concept that it addresses. It’s the outrageous desuetude of that. That and a lot of other discrepancies. The film stuffs in too many characters and eventually most of them land with a miniscule part that suggests a very meretricious aspect to it. Again it strays away from the book characteristics. For instance the character of ‘Bullseye’ played by Colin Farrell. The last time I checked...
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