Daredevil has a brooding dark and dank air about it, much like Batman. That's about the only element that lends the movie any character.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jan 4, 2019

From start to finish, the film is death-ridden and employs overamplified sound to pump up its many pornographic images.

| Dec 14, 2017

It isn't a great film, or even a greatly original one. Still, it has many grace notes, and interesting oddities.

| Jul 14, 2015

Much of the rest of Daredevil is so dark that you can't see it. I don't think you're missing a great deal.

| Jul 14, 2015

When Farrell's on screen, Daredevil becomes more than just a finely tuned entertainment machine. In a movie that will rake people in no matter what, it's fun to see something unexpected.

| Jul 14, 2015

There's good stuff in the margins. But on the heels of such successful comic-book adaptations as X-Men and Spider-Man, Johnson's film makes Daredevil look like the second-rate hero he never really was.

| Jul 13, 2015

Superhero is darker, more violent than Spiderman.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 22, 2010

Torn between moody grandiosity and cartoonish mayhem, Daredevil tries to have it both ways, and succeeds at neither.

| Jul 7, 2010

[A] dull actioner.

| Apr 18, 2007

There are enough strong moments to guarantee a good night out.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 30, 2006

Convincing in the physical demands of the role, Affleck persuades us of the pain of sightlessness and supersensitive hearing, although writer/director Johnson's scrappy construction fails him and everyone else as the showdown approaches.

| Jan 26, 2006

Johnson hasn't decided if he's making an exuberant action movie or a drama, and veers awkwardly between the two.

| Apr 4, 2003

Unconvincing touches aside, it's exhilarating stuff showing the kind of darkness Tim Burton once shed on the Batman legend.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 25, 2003

[A} marriage of big brains, big brawn, and -- most happily -- big heart.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Mar 10, 2003

One gets the sneaking suspicion that Batman never would have embarrassed himself like this.

| Feb 21, 2003

The numerous fight scenes have been filmed in Confuse-o-Rama, a headache-inducing technique that mixes a dozen too many cuts per minute, projectile P.O.V., and intermittent glimpses of the hero's sonar sensorium.

| Feb 19, 2003

A collection of false starts interrupted by an awful lot of angst-ridden contemplation, the picture serves up soul-searching gush with scant pulse-pounding rush.

Full Review | Feb 19, 2003

Daredevil has electric energy, a wickedly dark sense of humor, some ingenious fight scenes and that high-powered cast.

Full Review | Feb 18, 2003

Kind of lousy.

| Feb 15, 2003

Perfectly satisfactory without being deeply satisfying.

| Feb 14, 2003