I would pay $5.00 to watch this movie

    I saw an ad for this movie several months ago and was excited. In my view, this movie had two possibilities: It could be really terrible or it could be really good. Luckily for me, and millions of other viewers, it turned out not to be terrible. Despite everybody and their uncle complaining about the darkness of the fight scenes, I thought the movie was remarkably well-put-together for a Hollywood schlockbuster superhero flick.
    Mark Steven Johnson, the director, is a fairly unknown quantity, the only movie he has directed previously was “Simon Birch”, an uplifting family movie which has very little in common with “Daredevil”. His other credits include writing “Grumpy old Men” and its sequel. To me, most impressive was his involvement with “Big Bully”, but that’s just because I love Don Knotts.
    Much has been made of Jennifer Garner and how hot she is, but I was much more impressed with her display of screen martial arts, which really came together. Personally, I thought she looked rather skeletal, but she sure did kick butt, and brought actual character to a role that was simply meant to cast the hero in a more stark light.
    Ben Affleck was, as usual, earnest and cocky, two qualities which kind of bothered me in this role. He worked in "Dogma”, but the role of Daredevil would have been better played by someone a little more gritty, in my opinion. I have to admit that Affleck was pretty good in the role, I just feel like he was missing something. He definitely had the moves in the fight sequences, though.
    This brings me to the already-famous park fight scene between garner and Affleck. This was superb, a brilliant homage to the Jackie Chan comedic action films. Using a seesaw and various props in a fight scene works well when it’s done well, Not surprising, really, when your fight coordinator is Daxing Zhang, who worked on “The Matrix” crew, as well as on “Charlie’s Angels”. Regardless, his job was well done in that he didn’t try to do too much, and what came out on the film was a well-choreographed fight scene that entranced the viewer.
Joe Pantoliano was great as a conflicted reporter, Colin Farrell did a great job as Bullseye, and Michael Clarke Duncan was furniture-like in the role of Kingpin. Sorry, I was really excited when he first came on-screen, but it just went downhill from there.
    Overall, I think this movie was pretty good. It had a great first impression, but it faded after I thought more about it. I still like the fight scenes, and those who say the setting was too dark can wake up and realize that this is a movie about a BLIND GUY, so figure it out. The movie was stylish and not as flimsy a plot as one expects from Hollywood. The actors were surprisingly good in their fluff roles, and they really brought the movie together and made it worth watching. Check it out.