Review of Daredevil (2003) by Fuad_Rmnm — 26 Apr 2022

It’s Good for Superhero Mood.

In the 2000s, Daredevil (2003) is pretty good for superhero movies themed as a vigilante – who seeks justice by themselves. In my POV, somehow, vigilante movies sound interesting to the audience because as a society we already tend to have some distrust issues with law enforcement. This issue is well narrated through Daredevil's story that seeks justice during the day by following the law rule as a pro bono lawyer, but during the night, he contrasts all of that as Daredevil – a blinded man with superhuman strength. He possesses intelligence from his lawyer job and superhuman strength from his enhanced basic human sensory, especially in hearing sensory – accurately knowing the position of everything. These make him pretty badass as a superhero and vigilant executor.

The pros are great acting performance and audience value, good storyline and visuals, and iconic music. We can see great acting performances for Jennifer Garner as Elektra and Colin Farrell as Bullseye. In my POV, Ben Affleck's performance is just standard as the Daredevil, no offense. Besides that, audience value is great by making a statement about choosing to be a bad guy or a good guy as a vigilante. Maybe it also has a little dark theme for the value but is covered with a romance story to spice it up and make it emotional. The storyline is pretty good because it felt reasonable and the visual is pretty standard quality. The most unexpected is iconic music for using Bring Me to Life by Evanescence. Tbh, I barely know why this song was hype but rn, I know that! Big thanks for this movie. However, the cons are the storyline, visual, and emotional quality is hardly considered a superheroes movie. At that time, it can’t be compared to Spider-Man and X-Men which sadly Daredevil should be much better because both of it has already been made. Daredevil should be compared to other superhero movies with the vigilant theme, The Punisher (2004) and Venom (2018). Compared to those, absolutely Venom was the winner lol. Reasonable coz it’s the newest one – the most developed film industry.

In my personal POV, this movie is good enough and not as bad as the rumors. Compared to the movie spin-off, Elektra (2005), Daredevil is still much better. Daredevil is still worth to watch wondering how Marvel Studios movie quality is in back the old days but please don’t expect too much.