A little kid gets blinded by chemical but he grows to be a good attorney. Due to the accident his other senses enhanced quite dramatically. Putting his powers to use, at nights he transforms into a vigilante to deal with the bad guys.
When Farrell's on screen, Daredevil becomes more than just a finely tuned entertainment machine. In a movie that will rake people in no matter what, it's fun to see something unexpected.
Daredevil is a perfectly serviceable B-movie, something to tide over genre fans waiting for X-Men 2.
Daily Mail (UK)
July 14, 2015
Writer-director Mark Steven Johnson's movie is too heavily reliant on tried and tested ingredients, such as Batman-type design and Matrix-style fighting.
Daredevil, as brought to the screen by writer/director Mark Steven Johnson, brings real violence and death into the comic book mix, and the result is a fascinating blend of the fantastic and the tragic.
There's good stuff in the margins. But on the heels of such successful comic-book adaptations as X-Men and Spider-Man, Johnson's film makes Daredevil look like the second-rate hero he never really was.
The ghostly sonar effects showing how Matt "sees" through sound are interesting, and Farrell's mad dog performance is fun. But overall Daredevil is nothing to marvel about.
