Okay, so I am a sucker for comic books adapted to film, but this is where I draw the line.

I don’t think there was one thing, really, which appealed to me in this movie, with the possible exceptions of the guy who played the Kingpin and the ending — i.e. how Daredevil decided to deal with him. Also, Joe Pantoliano is never bad, and Colin Farrell actually did quite well. Compared to Garner and Affleck, at least. Because the acting these to displayed was nothing short of abysmal. Sure, the script they had to work with wasn’t much to speak of, and the dialogue was absolutely horrendous, but it has been proved before that good actors can manage to bypass such problems as these, and make awful dialogue sound cool rather than just ridiculous.

Furthermore, the characters were… uninteresting, to say the least. Matthew Murdock was hardly what I’d refer to as sympathetic, and his lack of sympathetic traits were never made up for by anything cool. Elektra… well, let’s just say that I’m not looking forward to watching “Elektra” — which I naturally bought about a year ago, because I’d heard that “Daredevil” was kinda good (although I don’t blame Loki for giving me that impression; after all, he reviewed the Director’s Cut, while this was just a normal edition with a hell of a lot of special features), and because the “Elektra” DVD cost some 50 NOK.

The characters beyond that were very so-and-so. Bullseye was a little cool, but I felt he lacked depth; all we saw of his was psychotic violence, there was no background, no display of motives (other than “the Kingpin paid me to do it” and the general fondness of mayhem), just him showing up, throwing things at people, and flashing his coat — which I assume was supposed to be some kind of getaway technique, but if it was, I never got how he did it. Ben Urich was also not that bad, but I’ve seen it before. He was, to me, at least, basically the same character as the journalist in “Batman” who was chasing said man, although with less comic sidekickness. And speaking of comic sidekicks, the lawyer Murdock worked with… Least. Successful. Comic sidekick. Ever.

But again, Kingpin was also interesting, even though he, too could have benefitted from some more presentation.

When you into this mix throw unconvincing action scenes, a silly backstory (the everpresent chemicals), too much Evanescence, and some fifty tons of cheese, what you get is a nice, clean 2.5/10. Because if “Eragon” is the kind of movie which gives fantasy a bad rumour, this is the kind of crap that gives comics a bad rumour.