Product Description

After losing his sight to radioactive exposure, Max Murdoch uses his other, now heightened, senses to fight crime.
Genre: Feature Film-Action/Adventure
Rating: R
Release Date: 6-SEP-2005
Media Type: DVD

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #11092 in DVD
• Brand: AFFLECK,BEN
• Released on: 2004-11-30
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Aspect ratio: 2.35:1
• Formats: Closed-captioned, Color, Director's Cut, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Original language: English, Greek, Italian
• Subtitled in: English, Spanish
• Dubbed in: French, Spanish
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 133 minutes

Amazon.com
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

Additional Features
The long-rumored director's cut of Daredevil delivers a better film, 30 minutes longer than the original due to not only new scenes but also small extensions here and there and the removal of the nonsensical love scene. There's more action--Daredevil beating up a biker bar, more Elektra-Bullseye, and more Kingpin--and more character for Matt Murdock, including his relationship with his dad, and banter with Foggy. Director-writer Mark Steven Johnson and producer Avi Arad (also Marvel's CEO) do a good commentary track discussing the changes and why they felt the original came up short (the studio wanted a faster pace, less violence, and more Jennifer Garner), though they do lapse into self-congratulation (when Johnson says people are divided on the playground scene, Arad asks, "Over what? 'Is it great' or 'is it tremendous'?"). There's also a 15-minute featurette about the new cut. Fans might want to hang onto the original DVD because of its copious bonus material, particularly the comic book-related features. --David Horiuchi

From The New Yorker
Ben Affleck is a blind lawyer who becomes a superhero at night, and much of this new comic-book spectacular is so dark that you can't see it. Not that you're missing anything. What can be seen is derivative, flat, and halfhearted. Dressed in a maroon jumpsuit, Affleck flips from nowhere to nowhere in a digital New York that seems based on sketches rejected by the creators of the first "Batman" movie. Affleck tries for a light-voiced, unemphatic presence, and he registers no more powerfully here than he did in "Pearl Harbor." He seems a put-on movie star, a lazybones puffed by helium bursts of publicity. -David Denby
Copyright © 2006 The New Yorker

Customer Reviews

DAREDEVIL! Pioneer of Wire-Fu and Stick Fighting!
I subscribed to the early comic book. I liked Daredevil because he was different with his disabilities (blind and mortal) and strengths ('radar-sense' and martial arts style of moving and fighting). I thought the film was a great version of my favorite underdog hero. There's a dark feeling in the look and story of this 'early wire-swinging' hero. A earthy cross between Batman and Spiderman with a realistic approach that is almost noirish. The picture and sound are BluRay bests! Basically, Daredevil is a blind stick fighter, who is so hyper-sensitive, that he has to medicate himself and get into a isolation tank, to get any sleep. And he's got a girl. Give DAREDEVIL a chance.

What's Wrong with This Film...
That title is not a question; it's a statement, because I'm going to tell you what I think ruined this movie. It wasn't Ben Affleck. As far as well-known actors go, he performed quite well in a niche role. It wasn't Michael Clarke Duncan. Even thought the Kingpin is white in every other version, what big white guy are you going to get to play the role as well as Duncan did? Turning a white character black is not a concern for me; they're doing it with Nick Fury for the Ultimate Avengers, and it works.

No, the problem with this film is two-fold: Jennifer Garner and Colin Farrell. Or maybe it should be Jennifer Garner and Mark Stephen Johnson. Well, whoever's responsible for the crap-tastic versions of Elektra and Bullseye, they're responsible for the lameness of "Daredevil."

Jennifer Garner is just not a good actress. She looks nice, but that's it. Her portrayal of Elektra was such a deviation from the original character; she's too outgoing, too nice, too kind-hearted. She's Greek, but she can't even speak to her father in their native language, even when he speaks it to her? She also talks too much. And couldn't they have at least dyed her hair black? This is like making Jean Grey a blonde; you don't do it.

Maybe Colin Farrell isn't to blame for Bullseye's failure; maybe he was just doing as directed. Either way, he took an already cinematic character from the comics and made him so incredibly generic. Bullseye's cocky and talkative; Farrell was soft-spoken and had an accent (Don't try to tell me he can't fake an American accent. "Phone Booth"). I understand that the comic book version of Bullseye wore a silly spandex outfit that wouldn't look good on film, but couldn't they have done better than a trench coat? Go play "The Punisher" video game that came out in 2005 to see a perfect representation of Bullseye that would have worked for the film. To bad Garth Ennis didn't work on this film.

I'm interested in seeing Director's Cut, but I see no way it will change my opinion on the failings of these two characters. Maybe I'll just skip around their scenes.

Daredevil: Director's Cut - Blu-ray Info
Version: U.S.A / Region-A
Aspect ratio: 2.35:1
MPEG-4 AVC BD-50 / High Profile 4.1
Running time: 2:13:08
Movie size: 27,17 GB
Disc size: 47,57 GB
Average video bit rate: 19.95 Mbps

DTS-HD Master Audio English 3977 kbps 5.1 / 48kHz / 24-bit / 3977kbps (DTS Core: 5.1 / 48kHz / 24-bit / 1536kbps)
Dolby Digital Audio English 448 kbps 5.1 / 48kHz / 448kbps
Dolby Digital Audio French 448 kbps 5.1 / 48kHz / 448kbps
Dolby Digital Audio Spanish 448 kbps 5.1 / 48kHz / 448kbps
Dolby Digital Audio English 224 kbps 2.0 / 48kHz / 224kbps

Subtitles: English / English SDH / Chinese (Traditional & Simplified) / French / Spanish

Number of chapters: 45

# Enhanced video mode - BonusView
# Audio commentary with Writer/Director and Producer
# Fact and fiction feature - Pop-up trivia on the story, characters, and Marvel Universe
# Beyond Hell's Kitchen - The making of Daredevil
# Jennifer Garner screen test
# Featured villain - The Kingpin
# Daredevil: HBO First Look - Hosted by Jennifer Garner
# Moving through space - A day with Tom Sullivan
# Giving the Devil his due - Editing process for Daredevil
# Multi-angle dailies for Daredevil
# The Comic Book
# Music videos
# Still galleries
# Trailers