Daredevil!!!!!!

looks the part in places, individual scenes are gorgeous but they just don’t stitch together. affleck is too po-faced and serious, garner has nothing to do and farrell and duncan seem to be the only ones enjoying themselves (farrell has the dirrtiest dublin accent i’ve heard on screen in ages – i loved it).

can’t quite buy the notion of listening to house of pain in an english pub though – well, maybe an oirish pub in kilburn, but the one in the film looked like an english pub (certainly you don’t expect to find paddy-baiting english twats in oirish pubs). apart from that one song, the rest of the music in the film was terrible.

the action scenes didn’t rock me. too many masturbating ‘practice’ scenes and not enough real violence – and even the real violence was edited to distraction. and the cgi – good god, could it have looked more like cgi?

bits were interesting, hinting at the darkness of da red evil but ultimately affleck destroys it all – he’s a wuss, he looks likes a wuss and he talks like a wuss (voiceovers – that was the first warning it was all going to go to hell in a handcart). that whole crisis-of-conscience shtick just doesn’t convince.

kevin smith’s cameo (didn’t daredevil cameo in jay + silent bob’s last outting?) was cute and i caught frank miller’s and stan lee’s names on the closing credits. so lots of detail to marvel at, just don't try looking at the bigger picture.

I thought it was pretty good. The fight scenes were fun. It didn't make alot of sense that
I just didn't like Affleck. He was too clean and conventional for what is a more alternative comic character. His build is far too bulky for instance. Casting more unusial people in superhero roles like with Spiderman is definately the way to go.

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