Daredevil (DVD)

The Plot ------------ The film begins with Daredevil clutching a cross at the top of a church, bleeding. He is with the priest laid on the floor and as he is laid dying, his life flashes before his eyes, this leads you to seeing his life as he lived it. When he was a boy, Matt often got beat up by the local bullies. He would come home to talk with his father, Jack, who used to be a boxer that demanded he never fight back. He did not want his son turning out like him. He wanted him to make something of his life. One day, Matt sees Jack beating up a stranger, despite promising Matt that he never would. A devastated Matt runs away, ...  Read the complete review

=== Daredevil === Director: Mark Steven Johnson Release Date: 2003 Runtime: 133 mins Approx Certificate: 15 === Disk 1: Main Feature. === As the film starts, we see our hero, Daredevil aka, Matt Murdock (Ben Affleck), who is clutching onto a cross at the top of a church. He falls down into the church and is found by the priest. We then hear a voice over by Affleck, who says something about when you die your life flashes before you eyes, and the film then goes back to the very beggining, where we see how he gets into this situation. We see a young Matt (Scott Terra), looking down at the ground, with a cut on his ...  Read the complete review

Daredevil is a 2003 production starring Ben Affleck as Matt Murdock, a vigilante hero and a respectable lawyer. The story begins in the middle and is told in flashback. As a little boy Matt's father tells him not to fight back despite trouble that follows him around. One day Matt sees his father beating up a man. Matt works out that his father works for the hoodlums. This destroys the faith that he has in his father and consequently he runs away, a fork lift tries to avoid him, some chemicals are spilled blinding him yet giving super strength to other senses. Matt's father feels guilty; he goes back to boxing and is subsequently killed by his boss ...  Read the complete review

Graceless, shapeless, badly clothed lumps of human flesh, wandering inanely up any high street the length and breadth of this sceptred isle ? a far cry indeed from the male and female model, androgynous, flawless perfection of film, television and magazine ? I was particularly struck by that horrific juxtaposition today as I sat in a shopping mall simply watching this disgusting world going by. Of course, the superhero film genre is just that little bit different ? Batman, Spiderman, the X-Men, the Hulk ? why, all of them apart from Superman have human (or superhuman) flaws, even if it is merely split personality with a ...  Read the complete review

Believe it or not HMV are having yet another sale and yet again I get pulled into the shop so that the BF can buy anything he fancies.... that is anything he fancies aside from me of course. My experience of the sale ended up with me leaving the shop with the whole of the A-Team series on DVD, The Tailor of Panama on DVD and the Greaetest Gits of Shakin' Stevens on CD all of which are to be reviewed shortly ... there is such a thing as too much A-Team in one sitting. As for the BF, one of the offerings he left the shop with was Daredevil on DVD retailing at either £9.99 or if in the 3 DVDs/CDs for £20 approx £6.666666666 etc starring Ben Afflek, Jennifer ...  Read the complete review