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Message: <blockquote data-quote="teitan" data-source="post: 706008" data-attributes="member: 3457">Welp, time for my two cents. This review comes from a lifetime comic fan.I thoroughly enjoyed this movie, the few bits that I thought were overdone I can't bring myself to nitpick because what was done right was so well done that it overshadowed the bad bits. The rooftop scene between Matt and Elektra when he uses his radar sense to see her in the rain was the most romantic and powerful moment in the movie for me. I felt the need that Matt has for Elektra and felt the pain he felt when she was killed. Garner was just gorgeous and amazing in this movie and the whole relationship was done much better than those in the Batman movies and in Star Wars Episode II (though I could probably do a better romance scene on toilet paper with my butt than Lucas could). I can not believe that I could actually feel the emotion of this movie the way that I did.Some critics have been unduly harsh on some aspects of the movie in looking back at some of the pre-press on this flick. One criticism I read was about Daredevil letting Joe da Q die on the railroad tracks, and this criticism completely misses the point of the following scene of Daredevil beating the man in his apartment in front of his kid. "I'm not the bad guy" was the perfect summary for this movie. Seeing the child cry and Daredevil's face really brought this home to me, Daredevil in his pursuit for revenge had become the very monster that he was fighting, and now Matt, through Elektra was struggling to come through. Unlike Batman, Daredevil is not the root persona, Matt Murdock is and Murdock comes through in Daredevil after this scene. Batman is not the disguise for Batman, Bruce Wayne is the disguise for Batman and that is the difference between Marvel and DC. Johnson really seems to understand the difference between Batman and Daredevil and it shows as any other director would have made this movie like the Crow or Batman, Johnson just really hit the right stride in potraying this difference. No he wasn't as great a director as Raimi for Spiderman but he brought across that same love of the character that Raimi did for Spidey.The sensory deprivation tank was a neat idea, not as foreign to Daredevil as some think, but I really hope it is not something that Marvel imports into the comic book like the new look for Toad or the X-Men costumes. I also liked the portrayal of the radar sense, it was original and really illustrated how it works quite well. The scene with young Matt in the hospital was just amazing and portrays a real and very traumatizing experience for such a young boy. Bullseye was great in my own opinion, Colin Farrel pulled off the madness of Bullseye, which was always a goofy kind of madness and nothing like the Joker or Goblin, at least until the brain tumour kicks in. The glee that Bullseye gets in killing is a more subtle glee than the Joker as portrayed by Nicholson, but it was also more readily apparent and shocking. Frank Miller played the dead guy quite well. The old lady was spot on Bullseye.The soundtrack wasn't as bad as I thought it would be, I was expecting MTV crap, and I got some of it, I always imagined Murdock as a jazz man myself, but hey, he wants to listen to crap rock in the morning, fine with me. Evanesence was just perfect for the scenes they played it in, not obtrusive and portraying the emotions of moment so well that I felt each and every moment. (starting to sound like a geek ain't I? LOL) I wish they had gone with a little softer stuff, or more of a score than they did, but overall I really think the music kicked some rump.What I didn't like was some of the over the topness of the action scenes, though it makes sense considering the characters are Daredevil, trained by Stick (who wasn't in the movie for good reason) and Elektra, trained in a different martial art every year since she was 5 and that should lead to some amazing moves. Bullseye should have been a little more on the brutal side. The big flaw was that so many characters had similar fighting styles, so the whole deal looked a little fake, but not intrusively so.The battle with Bullseye and Elektra I thought was just perfect. No Elektra was not a pushover in the comics, nor was she in this movie. Matt getting sudden energy in the church was not very realistic, but it was dramatic and the battle was amazing though I thought the organ pipes were a bit too much, though very indicative of the comic book roots and really pretty, while it reminded me of some of the cruiserweights in WCW back in the day, very choreographed though essential to Bullseye discovering Daredevil's sensitivity to sound. Overall I give the movie an 8 out of 10 as a movie and a 9 out of 10 as a comic book movie, putting it in league with Batman Returns and Batman Forever. 10 being Spiderman and Superman I & II. 3 being Batman and Robin and 6 being Superman IV for reference sakes.Jason</blockquote>

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