Daredevil

Directed by: Mark Steven Johnson, USA, 2003

USA, 2003
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Cast and Credits

Producer Avi Arad
Gary Foster
Arnon Milchan
Ausführender Produzent Stan Lee
Stan Lee
Production Manager Bill Carraro
Director Mark Steven Johnson
Scenario Mark Steven Johnson
Director of Photography Ericson Core
Editor Armen Minasian
Armen Minasian
Production Design Bary Chusid
Costume Design James Acheson
Visual Effects James Acheson
Cast Ben Affleck [Matt Murdock / Daredevil]
Michael Clarke Duncan [Wilson Fisk alias Kingpin]
Colin Farrell [Bullseye]
Jon Favreau [Franklin Foggy Nelson]
Jennifer Garner [Elektra]
Joe Pantoliano [Ben Urich]
Joe Pantoliano [Matt Murdock (12 Jahre)]

Technical specifications
Technical Details: Color,Length: 108 minutes
Sound System: not indicated
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Reviews in German: "Nur hartgesottene Comic-Fans werden die hundert Minuten Live-Action Film ì
mit dem blinden Anwalt durchstehen, der sich nachts zum maskierten Rächer der ì
Gerechtigkeit in den dunklen Strassen von New York macht. Selten war ein ì
fetter gelackter Bösewicht so langweilig und nichtsagend wie in diesem Film, ì
auch wenn sich Ben Affleck und Jennifer Garner alle Mühe geben, der Streifen ì
bleibt durch und durch ein lahmer Abklatsch eines Spyderman oder Batman." ì
(lhg)



"The screen treatment of the classic Marvel superhero, directed by Mark ì
Steven Johnson (Jack Frost, Simon Birch), ranks up there with Batman and ì
X-Men for its melancholy, dark wit, meticulous eye for detail, baroque ì
mise-en-scène, and crackling energy. It opens with a seemingly dying man ì
telling his tale: Matt Murdock (Ben Affleck), a/k/a Daredevil, relates his ì
cornball origins. A tough kid growing up in Hell's Kitchen, he's blinded by ì
some of those pesky toxic chemicals, which also increase his remaining senses ì
to near-unbearable intensity. Driven by a never-say-die fearlessness, he ì
hones these skills into superpowers and, after witnessing his palooka dad ì
getting bumped off by the mob, vows to fight injustice: blind lawyer by day, ì
red-leather-clad whirligig by night.

Johnson renders the action scenes with kaleidoscopic drive pulsed by a ì
terrific soundtrack and weakened by sometimes geeky CGI effects. Jennifer ì
Garner makes a porcelain ninja as Elektra, DD's squeeze/nemesis, but is not ì
as appealing as Jon Favreau as his wisecracking buddy. Colin Farrell belches ì
beautifully as the lethal Irish-pub rat Bullseye. And oversize teddy bear ì
Michael Clarke Duncan, playing the monolithic Kingpin, brings a chill to ì
lines like "No one is innocent." Things get a little busy and silly toward ì
the end; my advice: save some for the sequel." (PETER KEOUGH in The Boston ì
Phoenix)



"'DAREDEVIL," the blind hero of this poor man's "Batman" played by Ben ì
Affleck in autopilot mode and a red leather suit, has had his other senses so ì
heightened he has to sleep in a sensory deprivation tank.

Alas, you may feel like you've spent an hour and half soaking in such a ì
device after sitting through Mark Steven Johnson's mind-numbing, would-be ì
comic-book franchise, which often seems as blind as its hero - not to mention ì
deaf and dumb.

Someone's lack of confidence in writer-director Johnson's storytelling is ì
betrayed by the lengthy voice-over narration that opens the movie.

A seemingly dying Daredevil relates a lengthy series of flashbacks recalling ì
how Matt Murdock (Scott Terra), a bullied Hell's Kitchen teenager, was ì
blinded by an accident - which somehow enhanced his hearing so much it now ì
functions as a kind of sonar.

Later his father, dockworker Jack "The Devil" Murdock (David Keith), a ì
washed-up boxer trying to make a comeback, is killed by the mob when he ì
refuses to take a dive.

It's fun to imagine how many times Affleck, an Oscar-winning screenwriter ì
(for "Good Will Hunting"), had to read corny lines like "I waited outside for ì
my father. In some sense, I'm still waiting" without breaking up.

As the grown-up Matt, a pro bono lawyer who likes to proclaim "justice is ì
blind," Affleck dons Daredevil's ridiculous horned suit to go on vigilante ì
patrol - and our first impulse is to wonder if he has a Daredevil-mobile with ì
matching red upholstery.

Nearly half the film is over before the story gets rolling - and we finally ì
see Elektra (Jennifer Garner), a Greek-American heiress whom Matt meets cute ì
in a playground martial arts duel.

Unfortunately, Affleck and Garner, the star of TV's "Alias," exhibit no ì
chemistry together after this first encounter - even though the film pays ì
homage to "Spider-Man" with a soggy love scene set in the rain.

After Elektra's tycoon father (Eric Avari, a fixture in Adam Sandler films) ì
is killed in a mob hit that Daredevil is unfairly blamed for, she turns into ì
an avenger herself - but, in this case, mourning definitely doesn't become ì
Elektra.

Hong Kong's Cheung Yan Yuen was brought in to choreograph the "Matrix"-style ì
fights, but they're so badly lit, choppily edited and digitally enhanced that ì
they don't have a whole lot of impact.

Director Johnson ("Simon Birch") wastes a good cast, including Michael Clarke ì
Duncan as chief baddie Kingpin, who turns out to be about as menacing as the ì
Jolly Green Giant.

Also on board with little to do are Jon Favreau, as Matt's lawyer partner, ì
and Joe Pantoliano as a remarkably mild-mannered reporter for The Post. (This ì
newspaper is also represented by numerous front pages and an accident ì
involving a Post truck on what is unmistakably a Los Angeles street ì
unconvincingly being passed off as Manhattan.)

Affleck, who can be a fine actor in small, character-based films like ì
"Changing Lanes," reverts to the condescending, frat-boy smirk he usually ì
reserves for his work in big-budget blockbusters.

Not so Colin Farrell, who delivers some much-needed pizazz in his tiny role ì
as Kingpin's multi-pierced henchman, Bullseye, who can turn paper clips, ì
pencils and even shards of stained glass into deadly weapons.

It's Farrell's gleeful villainy - delivered, for once, in his native Irish ì
brogue rather than his usual fake-American accent - and his climactic battle ì
with our red-clad hero in a church (that literally has bats in the belfry) ì
that keeps "Daredevil" from being a total snooze.

The flick misses the bull's-eye by such a length that nobody except hard-core ì
fanboys and leather fetishists will be panting for the sequel promised at the ì
end." (New York Post)




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General Information

Daredevil is a motion picture produced in the year 2003 as a USA production. The Film was directed by Mark Steven Johnson, with Ben Affleck, Michael Clarke Duncan, Colin Farrell, Jon Favreau, Jennifer Garner, in the leading parts. We have currently no synopsis of this picture on file;

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