Daredevil - The Director's Cut [Blu-ray]

Daredevil has been in the Marvel Comics Universe since 1964. In that time, he's gone through many changes. (The same can be said for just about any comic super hero.)

It's a great challenge to create a Super Hero movie. The movie must appeal to a wide range of viewers, ranging from those of us who were there in the beginning, to those who've seen the comics in the decades since, and those who've never read the comics.

In my opinion, the best super hero movies honor the comic book image of the character. Again, that's not easy if the character has changed over several decades.

When I heard about this movie, I was skeptical.

Ben Affleck as Daredevil?! Isn't he too thin?! (I remember the Johnny Romita version of Daredevil.)

The entire cast was well-chosen. Ben Affleck & Jennifer Garner were great together as Daredevil and Elektra. Michael Clarke Duncan was great as Kingpin, and Colin Ferrell was great as Bullseye.

I loved the movie, and so did my ex-wife... She was never a comics fan.. so that is a great recommendation!

excellent purchase again, fast turn around and exactly what you expect to get, if not more than you expect to get

Jennifer Garner actually can do this stuff...it makes you feel sorry for Ben
Affleck having to do fight scenes with her. The ending just isn't your "Kill Bill" blood everywhere revenge. It is a sad story with an kind of upbeat point of view with a mystery of the Mother's necklace.
From a Marvel comics point of view, it is an upgrade for the second line superhero, the Daredevel, to put him in the ranks of Spiderman and Batman.
Ben Affleck is too gentle a fellow for this type of role and probably shouldn't have been cast for it: he is more a Gary Cooper type "reluctant hero" than the revenge crazed blind man. It needed a person who has a glow of inner torment... he did a good job anyway.

The Director's Cut of Mark Steven Johnson's Daredevil is a much better film than its theatrical cut, mostly because of the fact that there's more depth to this cut. In my opinion, Marvel has had only two real failures, Hulk (2003) and The Punisher (2004), and those films are being remade as we speak, in the form of The Incredible Hulk and Punisher: War Zone, with TIH scheduled for release on June 13, 2008 and P:WZ set for release on December 5, 2008. Like I stated in the title, Daredevil (2003) is now in my opinion one of the three best Marvel movies, with the other two being Blade and X-Men. The sequels to those two films aren't that bad either. Unfortunately, the downside to this DVD release is that, like Spider-Man 2.1, the original bonus material is lacking, and a new featurette, along with the teaser trailers to AVP: Alien vs. Predator (2004) and I, Robot (2004), and a commentary track takes its place. There is more substance to Daredevil, which sets it apart from the Spider-Man and Fantastic Four franchises, which are geared more towards children. It is also separated from independent features like Ghost Rider (2007), (which is a hybrid of dark horror, and the campiness of the Spider-Man (2002) and Fantastic Four (2005) franchises)as well as Man-Thing (2005), (which is strictly Sci-Fi/Horror). I have a feeling that this year's Iron Man will fall along the lines of either Spider-Man or Fantastic Four, and The Incredible Hulk may too. Punisher: War Zone may be the only dark Marvel movie of the year. In conclusion, you'll probably like Daredevil if you appreciate comic-book movies with depth.

Like many, I've seen the theatrical release and though : "Good movie...but..." It left me lukewarm, and there are too many elements that not quite make sens in the theatrical version. In an effort to get rated as PG-13 lots of the best this movie has to offer went down the drain, making for a badly butchered one-dimensional version of it.

The director's cut is finally solving this injustice and this make for a whole new movie, with a very exiting plot, and a whole new sub-plot that actually bring a LOT to the movie. No more wishy-washy morale and illogical sex scene in this one. And all the elements of the theatrical releases are actually put in the right order as well, so that you aren't left wondering why on Earth did Matt wear a grey suit in the morning and is shown later in the evening in a black one when he leaves office.

And for those who like me felt that Jon Favreau's role as Foggy got really truncated and should have been more, well the director's cut deliver, he is brilliant in his comical relief role and will have you laugh all through that otherwise dark and intense movie.

If you have to pruchase Daredevil on DVD, this is the only buy worth your money, give the other edition a big miss.