Wednesday, April 02, 2003

DareDevil
This was perhaps the worst comic book movie ever. It included such cheesy lines as "You killed the only two people I ever loved! Why? Why?" and "When good things happen to me I get scared.""I will protect you." There was little to no plot development and little to no character development. Let's go through the characters and talk about each....

DareDevil/Matt Standing up for the little guy is this little guy's mantra? Apparently, even before he was blind and before his dad died, he was a driven kid. "We had an unspoken pact"? C'mon. I am not very good at this, but let's just say that we didn't get a good look at who he was. There was a scene were a girlfriend had broken up with him over an answering machine, and this was about as good an insight at who we were dealing with as the 30 minute intro diatribe.

Electra Nachios The mexican appitizer was appatizing. She was a hotty, but the action scenes were too much and she wasn't given any good lines. She died shortly after realizing that DD was her boyfriend and after she nearly killed him. (speaking of nearly killing him, she stabs him and he collapses and she says "I want to watch you die" yet he was able to magically get up, run across the city, fight Bullseye, fight Kingpin, and go home for a nap. Do you see the plot holes????) There was some potential with the tragedy of the moment, but they didn't exploit it, but rather assumed that our 15 second attention spans couldn't handle it.

Kingpin I went in thinking he was the wrong actor for the part. Then we got into the movie and I was wrong. He was a good Kingpin. Scratch that, he could have been a good Kingpin. Apparently the writers never READ a Daredevil comic book. The Kingpin is supposed to be elegant, calculating, cold, powerful, strong, and always have a plan. He (in the movie) was a thug. Granted he did know that DD was coming for him and had his guards leave. This was very Kingpin. But Kingpin would not have entered that situation without a backup plan. He would have had some escape plan or had someone there on site to help him out or something. Kingpin is strong and can pack a punch, but he is a cold, calculating KINGPIN of crime. He didn't get there by taking chances. Another wasted resource. (sidenote: his assistant was supurbly cast)

The Writer And the point of this character was.....? 'Nuf said.

The other Attorney This was the only character properly developed and he was a bit player. He was funny. He was a good friend. He had high hopes. He knew, but didn't know, that Matt was special. He was honest, but aspired to bigger and better things.

Bullseye A cool villan, but apparently really stupid. He figures out how to hurt DD but then stops for several minutes to brag about how he is going to kill him. Let's not forget his famous lines "You took away my hands" and "He made me miss. I never miss." Did I mention that these writers suck?

I say we start a petition that they never release this piece of crap to video. Barf-O-Rama.

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