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Actors: Ben Affleck, Jennifer Garner
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Daredevil |
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All the Hollywood money, beautiful faces, and marketing in the world can't make Daredevil an enjoyable movie; unless you are willing to leave your intellect at the door. If you are one of those annoying people who check to see if anything is out of place from frame to frame, or count the number of bullets ejected by a gun and whine that the character never reloaded, then avoid this movie.
The main character Matt Murdock a.k.a. Daredevil (Ben Affleck), had a rough childhood in New York City. After being blinded by often misplaced and always pesky radioactive material, Matt finds that his other four senses have been heightened. This doesn't merely mean that he can hear and smell better, he also has sonar similar to that of a bat, can suddenly leap huge distances while tumbling like a trained acrobat, and seemingly feels very little pain as he takes a heck of a beating. The Daredevil persona is used to bring justice to evil doers. Matt meets the beautiful, martial arts trained Elektra (Jennifer Garner) one afternoon and falls head over heels. Kingpin (Michael Clarke-Duncan) is a big crime boss in New York who hires Bullseye (Colin Farrell) to off some people for him. Daredevil gets caught in the middle and heroics ensue.
Every role in this movie is filled by an exceptional actor, and the characters have the promise of being intriguing, unfortunately the screenplay underestimates the intelligence of the audience. No connection whatsoever is felt with any of the characters in a story that serves as merely a backdrop for action sequences that we've all seen before. The fun of going to a superhero movie is to believe that there may actually be mutants out there or a man who is enormously wealthy who chooses to dress as a bat. It is the job of the screenwriter and the director to deliver us a world that we can slip into with our imaginations, one that isn't chock full of glaring inconsistencies that are impossible to ignore making the possibility of fully enjoying a movie unattainable.
It's guaranteed that Ben will deliver the bucks, and we will almost surely see Daredevil 2. It will probably be rushed out for next year giving us another under thought, over budgetted, unimaginative cookie cutter movie. The best part of my ten dollar ticket price was to see the trailer for X-Men 2, which was more captivating in its two minute running time than Daredevil in its entirety.
--Christopher Bryan, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Daredevil |
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 50%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 20%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 30%
Time/Era of Movie:
- present (2000-2010)
Superhero movie?
Yes
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- champion of justice
Age:
- 20's-30's
Has special powers?
Yes
Magical/mental powers of main character:
- is very quick
Hair color?
- brunette (Brown)
Hair style
- short/standard wavy (man)
Body type
- muscular (man)
Events of movie makes character more...
- aggressive
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- very athletic
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
Hair style
- (woman) medium/shoulderlgn wavy
Body type
- average (woman)
Unclothed?
- very tight clothes
How much in movie?
- 40%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 20's-30's
Profession/status:
- mastermind
Eccentric:
Yes
- obsessed
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 40%
Hair color
- bald
Body type
- muscular (man)
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Black
Physique
- Bulging muscles
Setting
United States
Yes
The US:
- Northeast
City?
Yes
City:
- New York
Misc setting
- sewers/subways
- building
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- non-gory references to death/punishment
Movie makes you feel...
- excited
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- kissing
Kind of violence:
- karate chop
- hand to hand
- guns
- knives
- swords
Unusual forms of death
- dropped from large heights
- impaled
- perforation--swords/knives
Any profanity?
- Occasional swearing
Is this movie based on a
- comics
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