Rating: NN
Here’s a film that’s trying to follow up on Spider-Man’s success, though Daredevil is really just Marvel’s answer to Batman, a hyper-athletic vigilante, but blind. The problem is twofold. First, the script is clunky and sort of lumbers from plot point to plot point. Second, Ben Affleck doesn’t move well, which is very apparent because he’s surrounded by people who do, like Alias’s Jennifer Garner and a demented Colin Farrell as the secondary villain.
Daredevil has also been overloaded with flash to hide its threadbare centre, and — another common ailment these days — fails to establish the rules by which the characters operate, so just when we think we know the rules, they break them.
johnh@nowtoronto.com
