My Review of Daredevil
MAY BE SOME SPOILERS:
Daredevil > Spiderman.
However:
Daredevil < Spiderman.
Confused? Good. You should be.
When it comes to the characters and the interactions, then Daredevil wins. Bullseye is pissed at Daredevil (Daredevil made him miss :)), Daredevil loves Electra, and Bullseye is hired to kill Electra and her father. There's a saying regarding characters: The more characters you have, the more ways you have to figure out how they react to each other. Kingpin played a very minor role in the movie, but he got the big finale fight scene. Besides, that's the Kingpin's method: He doesn't fight unless the fight is brought to him.
Daredevil is clearly a very flawed character. This is flawed as in he is a shade of grey, not as in he is a bad character. He is tormented, he seeks vengence when justice fails. All of the codes of conduct that superheros supposedly follow, he ignores. (IE: He lets his initial target, an aquitted rapist, get run over by a subway train) Regardless of the whole superpowers thing (the gimmie of the movie), this is a person that really would exist, and likely does (again, regardless of the superpowers).
Bullseye is just fun. You know he's evil, but he's the evil that makes the movie great. A hero is only as great as his villian. This time, the villian comes close to ustaging the hero.
Electra wasn't amazing, but did pretty good as a love interest. And the Kingpin was great when he was in the scenes (not very often).
Some great cinematography, pretty good fight scenes, and many different flying objects turned into weapons also contribute to its greatness.
The problem with the movie lies within its writing. There weren't enough scenes with Kingpin in it, some of the jokes were a bit corny, and the general story had some problems. Also, there was a bit too much humor in it for a dramatic movie, which is what it would've been beautiful as. Spiderman was able to get a niche and run with it.
In review:
Daredevil's characters and general feel > Spiderman's characters and general feel.
Daredevil's overall composition < Spiderman's overall composition.
I WOULD choose Daredevil over Spiderman. ESPECIALLY considering that the second half of Spiderman basically sucked.
Here's the Ebert and Roeper review of it: Click Here.
I give it 4/5 stars. Had a lot of potential considering the characters, but the script failed to meet the requirements.
MAY BE SOME SPOILERS:
Daredevil > Spiderman.
However:
Daredevil < Spiderman.
Confused? Good. You should be.
When it comes to the characters and the interactions, then Daredevil wins. Bullseye is pissed at Daredevil (Daredevil made him miss :)), Daredevil loves Electra, and Bullseye is hired to kill Electra and her father. There's a saying regarding characters: The more characters you have, the more ways you have to figure out how they react to each other. Kingpin played a very minor role in the movie, but he got the big finale fight scene. Besides, that's the Kingpin's method: He doesn't fight unless the fight is brought to him.
Daredevil is clearly a very flawed character. This is flawed as in he is a shade of grey, not as in he is a bad character. He is tormented, he seeks vengence when justice fails. All of the codes of conduct that superheros supposedly follow, he ignores. (IE: He lets his initial target, an aquitted rapist, get run over by a subway train) Regardless of the whole superpowers thing (the gimmie of the movie), this is a person that really would exist, and likely does (again, regardless of the superpowers).
Bullseye is just fun. You know he's evil, but he's the evil that makes the movie great. A hero is only as great as his villian. This time, the villian comes close to ustaging the hero.
Electra wasn't amazing, but did pretty good as a love interest. And the Kingpin was great when he was in the scenes (not very often).
Some great cinematography, pretty good fight scenes, and many different flying objects turned into weapons also contribute to its greatness.
The problem with the movie lies within its writing. There weren't enough scenes with Kingpin in it, some of the jokes were a bit corny, and the general story had some problems. Also, there was a bit too much humor in it for a dramatic movie, which is what it would've been beautiful as. Spiderman was able to get a niche and run with it.
In review:
Daredevil's characters and general feel > Spiderman's characters and general feel.
Daredevil's overall composition < Spiderman's overall composition.
I WOULD choose Daredevil over Spiderman. ESPECIALLY considering that the second half of Spiderman basically sucked.
Here's the Ebert and Roeper review of it: Click Here.
I give it 4/5 stars. Had a lot of potential considering the characters, but the script failed to meet the requirements.
posted by Wraithy at 2/19/2003 07:07:00 PM
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