Daredevil (Full Screen Edition) Mark Steven Johnson Digital Life DVD

Daredevil (Full Screen Edition)
starring: Ben Affleck, Jennifer Garner, Colin Farrell, Michael Clarke Duncan, Jon Favreau
directed by: Mark Steven Johnson

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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: AFFLECK/DUNCAN/GARNER/FARRELL
EAN: 0024543077947
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Live, Special Edition, Subtitled, NTSC
Label: Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation
Manufacturer: Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation
Region Code: 1
Release Date: July 29, 2003
Running Time: 103 minutes
Sales Rank: 13935
Studio: Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation
Theatrical Release Date: February 14, 2003

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For Daredevil, justice is blind, and for the guilty?there's hell to pay! Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner ignite dangerous sparks and nonstop thrills in this 'dazzling action-adventure' (The Film Journal) about the newest breed of superhero. By day, blind attorney Matt Murdock (Affleck) toils for justice in Hell's Kitchen. By night, he's Daredevil, The Man Without Fear - a powerful, masked vigilante stalking the dark streets with an uncanny 'radar sense' that allows him to 'see' with superhuman capabilities. But when the love of his life, fiery Elektra Natchios (Garner), is targeted by New York City's ruthless Kingpin of crime (Michael Clarke Duncan) and his deadly assassin Bullseye (Colin Farrell), Daredevil may be about to meet his match.

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Darker than its popular comic-book predecessor Spider-Man, the $80 million extravaganza Daredevil was packaged for maximum global appeal, its juvenile plot beginning when 12-year-old Matt Murdock is accidentally blinded shortly before his father is murdered. Later an adult attorney in New York's Hell's Kitchen, Murdock (Ben Affleck) uses his remaining, superenhanced senses to battle crime as Daredevil, the masked and vengeful 'man without fear,' pitted against dominant criminal Kingpin (Michael Clarke Duncan) and the psychotic Bullseye (Colin Farrell), who can turn almost anything into a deadly projectile. Daredevil is well matched with the dynamic Elektra (Jennifer Garner), but their teaming is as shallow as the movie itself, which is peppered with Marvel trivia and cameo appearances (creator Stan Lee, Clerks director and Daredevil devotee Kevin Smith) and enough computer-assisted stuntwork to give Spidey a run for his money. This is Hollywood product at its most lavishly vacuous; die-hard fans will argue its merits while its red-leathered hero swoops and zooms toward a sequel. --Jeff Shannon

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- Not Quite A Bullseye
There are some good things about this show, and some bad things. It is a dark movie, as it should be, being that Daredevil is a dark character. Collin Farrel was absolutely perfect as Bullseye. His preformance was the best part of the movie for me. I have some reservations regarding the decision to cast Ben Affleck as the lead.

The main thing lacking is back story. They needed to show some more of Daredevil's training and explain more about how he got his powers. What they did show was just insufficient. I don't buy that a 12-year old boy could train himself like that, even in a comic book.

I also did not like the obvious CGI effects, and there was too much gymnastics in a lot of the fighting scenes.

There is nothing special about the DVD. Over all the film is entertaining and worth seeing and/or owning.

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- Blu Ray Director's Cut
This film didn't have much of a chance when it came out. Fans of the comic were disdainful of the casting choices, Ben Affleck was in a paparazzi mess with J-Lo, the theatrical cut was hacked up to appeal to a younger audience..

and yet, 5 years later, the director's cut is out on BluRay, and does not include the original theatrical version, a silent admission that Mark Steven Johnson's vision was the better of the two.

'Daredevil' is an unusual superhero movie. It is a truer film-noir than most. The essential aspect of film noir not being just a dark visual palette, but a main character becoming more tightly ensnared in a web of tragedy that he can't escape from. Matt Murdock loses his sight, his father, his love, and as the violence escalates, finds little but faith to console him, and asks if it's enough. In the opening shot, he is bleeding, clinging to the concrete cross of the catholic ... Read More

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- Director Knows Best
Director Mark Steven Johnson truly explores the shadowy aspects of justice and vigilantism in the additional 30 minutes added to the film, along with some other tweaks.

The scene which didn't make the final cut from producer Gary Foster and 20th Century Fox studio is attorney Matt Murdock (Daredevil) - portrayed by Ben Affleck - defending a murder suspect, who is played by rapper Coolio. The violence is also amped up which earned the revised film an "R" rating, a path not taken to movie theaters by comic book super heroes and movie studios.

Colin Farrell (Bullseye) and Michael Clarke Duncan (The Kingpin) are excellent in their roles as villains, with Jennifer Garner (Elektra Natchios) able to show a different side of the character in this grittier version. Director's have to be daredevils at times in the editing process and this Director's Cut aptly shows - again - who knows best when it comes ... Read More

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- Sound that Shakes the Devil
If you are looking for 'earthquake' shaking bass, then get this movie. If your system can handle it this is a "DEMO"--show off your system quality soundtrack. If one complains that the bass is "boomy" it is because their SUB cannot handle the volume of EXTREME lows. From the opening credits and all throughout this film my concrete foundation shook with clean powerful gut-punching bass. The 24 bit DTS HD MA sound is reference quality. The sound design is reference quality. The use of surrounds is in a word "involving". It draws one into the action. Subtle (and not so subtle) surround usage brings the action aggressively into your room. You will find yourself ducking as Bullseye works his evil, deadly aim. If you can, engage the EX on your system, you will add another dimension to this excellent soundtrack. (In addition to my system sub, I have a 15" sub dedicated to the "surround" channels that thunders with this track)
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