IGN.com|AskMen.com|Rotten Tomatoes|GameSpy|FilePlanet|TeamXbox|CheatsCodesGuides|GameStats|Direct2Drive
RottenTomatoes.com
Register | Log In | What is RT?
Home Movies DVD Celebrities News Critics Trailers & Pictures The Vine Forums
Box Office | Best Of | Certified Fresh | Showtimes
RT Search Powered by Google
help icon Enhanced RT
searches on Google
Click here to turn on enhanced search results from RT on your Google searches by subscribing to our Google Subscribed Links profile.
 
Movies / On DVD / Daredevil
Daredevil

Rate this Movie Help Icon

  • Write a Review
  • Read Reviews
  • Email to a Friend
  • Add to List
  • Bookmark and Share
  • Buy Poster External Icon
  • Visit Official Site External Icon

Daredevil (2003)

  • T-Meter Critics
  • Top Critics
  • RT Community
  • My Critics
  • My Friends
  • DVD
44 %
Tomatometer

How does the Tomatometer work Help Icon

Reviews Counted: 202

Fresh: 88

Rotten:114

Average Rating: 5.2/10

Consensus: Passable entertainment even if it is a little derivative.

Runtime: 2 hrs 4 mins

Genre: Action/Adventure

Synopsis: The latest Marvel Comics superhero to hit the big screen is Daredevil (Ben Affleck), a man blinded by a radioactive chemical accident as a young boy but left with superhuman senses and agile acrobatic ability. Like his Marvel compatriot... The latest Marvel Comics superhero to hit the big screen is Daredevil (Ben Affleck), a man blinded by a radioactive chemical accident as a young boy but left with superhuman senses and agile acrobatic ability. Like his Marvel compatriot Spider-Man, Daredevil attempts to lead a normal life by day as Matt Murdock, a Hell's Kitchen defense attorney. By night Matt becomes Daredevil, a brooding superhero fighting for justice in the dark and squalid New York streets overrun with vermin and criminal injustice. Wearing a red leather suit and mask, Daredevil leaps from high skyscrapers and tracks his enemies with his radar-like vision, punishing those who are guilty but who he cannot tackle in the courtroom. At the center of the city's villainous underbelly is Daredevil's nemesis Kingpin (Michael Clarke Duncan), and his psychotic, knife-wielding deputy-assassin Bullseye (Colin Farrell). Daredevil fights their powerful forces alone, until he meets Elektra Natchios (Jennifer Garner of ALIAS fame), a skilled martial artist and sexy superheroine who is after Bullseye and Kingpin for murdering her father. Sparks fly as the two heroes take on the underlords of crime together in this action-packed adventure fantasy that will surely delight fans of SPIDER-MAN, X-MEN, or BATMAN. [More]

Starring: Ben Affleck, Jennifer Garner, Colin Farrell, Michael Clarke Duncan

Starring: Ben Affleck, Jennifer Garner, Colin Farrell, Michael Clarke Duncan, Jon Favreau, Paul Ben-Victor, Scott Terra, Ellen Pompeo, Joe Pantoliano, Leland Orser, Lennie Loftin, Erick Avari, Derrick O'Connor

Director: Mark Steven Johnson

Director: Mark Steven Johnson
Screenwriter: Mark Steven Johnson
Producer: Arnon Milchan, Gary Foster, Avi Arad
Composer: Graeme Revell
Studio: 20th Century Fox

[See More Credits]

  • Trailers
  • Pictures
1 - 5 of 22

See More Movie Trailers & Pictures

Reviews for Daredevil

  • T-Meter Critics
  • Top Critics
  • RT Community
  • My Critics
  • My Friends
  • DVD
 
 
1 - 20 (sorted by date; UK critics are listed first)
Text View | 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 >> >|
Arrange By: Fresh | Rotten | Comments | Name | Source | Date
 
 
Ratings Image

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

Full Review Source: Empire Magazine | comment Comment
12/30/06
Kim Newman
Empire Magazine
Top Critic Icon Top Critic
Ratings Image

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.

Full Review Source: Time Out | comment Comment
01/26/06
Trevor Johnston
Time Out
Top Critic Icon Top Critic
Ratings Image

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

Full Review Source: Guardian [UK] | comment Comment
03/25/03
Peter Bradshaw
Guardian [UK]
Top Critic Icon Top Critic
Ratings Image

'What kind of superhero can be rendered helpless by a loud noise?'

Full Review Source: Teletext | comment Comment
02/27/03
Paul Arendt
Teletext
Ratings Image

For all its clichés, it has a cracking third act, helped by doses of 15-rated violence.

Full Review Source: FilmFour.com | comment Comment
02/18/03
Matthew De Abaitua
FilmFour.com
Ratings Image

A crushing disappointment.

Full Review Source: ViewLondon | comment Comment
02/15/03
Matthew Turner
ViewLondon
Ratings Image

Surprisingly good.

Full Review Source: Shadows on the Wall | comment Comment
02/13/03
Rich Cline
Shadows on the Wall
Ratings Image

Spectacular set-piece shunts spectacular set-piece, without a strong narrative arc to hook the viewer.

Full Review Source: BBC | comment Comment
02/10/03
Nev Pierce
BBC
Top Critic Icon Top Critic
Ratings Image

Affleck's lanky, offhand softness hardly suits the superheroic archetype...[but] The R-rated Director's Cut...deserves an extra half-star. [Blu-ray]

Full Review Source: Groucho Reviews | comment Comment
09/21/08
Peter Canavese
Groucho Reviews
Ratings Image

Click to read the article

Full Review Source: Sacramento News & Review | comment Comment
08/07/08
Mark Halverson
Sacramento News & Review
N/R

Click to read the article

Full Review Source: Newsweek | comment Comment
04/07/08
David Ansen
Newsweek
Ratings Image

I enjoyed Daredevil while it lasted, but ... very little of it has stayed with me.

Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com | comment Comment
07/29/07
Rob Gonsalves
eFilmCritic.com
Ratings Image

Click to read the article

Full Review Source: Big Picture Big Sound | comment Comment
07/14/07
Joe Lozito
Big Picture Big Sound
Ratings Image

[A] dull actioner.

Full Review Source: Chicago Reader | comment Comment
04/18/07
J. R. Jones
Chicago Reader
Ratings Image

It's not bad so much as it is disposable and forgettable.

Full Review Source: Combustible Celluloid | comment Comment
05/26/06
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Combustible Celluloid
Ratings Image

The shame of this mess of a movie is that it could have been quite good.

Full Review Source: Three Movie Buffs | comment Comment
09/30/05
Scott Nash
Three Movie Buffs
Ratings Image

A faithful translation of the character and one of his more memorable tales on the page; it satisfies as an adventure and as a more intimate story.

Full Review Source: Movie Poop Shoot | comment Comment
01/15/05
Michael Dequina
Movie Poop Shoot
Ratings Image

Du cinéma préfabriqué qui donne envie de revoir Hulk et X2.

Full Review Source: Panorama | comment Comment
12/16/04
Louis-Jérôme Cloutier
Panorama
Ratings Image

The relationship between Murdock and Elektra could have made for an interesting film.

Full Review Source: Looking Closer | comment Comment
12/06/04
Jeffrey Overstreet
Looking Closer
Ratings Image

Mark Steven Johnson has wisely paced his film with elaborately choreographed fight sequences and ingratiating dialogue.

Full Review Source: Kansas City Kansan | comment Comment
10/14/04
Steve Crum
Kansas City Kansan
1 - 20 (sorted by date; UK critics are listed first)
Text View | 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 >> >|
all

Latest News for Daredevil

September 10, 2008: Fox Mulls More X-Men Spinoffs, Daredevil Reboot Opens in new window
Fox's dismal summer doesn't seem to have triggered panic mode at the studio yet -- but executives are meeting to discuss a number of superhero projects, including more "X-Men"... More...

February 26, 2007: Box Office Guru Wrapup: "Ghost Rides" High Again at #1
Academy Award winner Nicolas Cage ruled Oscar weekend with his skull-on-fire motorcycle actioner "Ghost Rider," which held steady at number one in North America for... More...

February 22, 2007: Box Office Guru Preview: Jim Carrey Aims to Terrify Moviegoers
Following a busy holiday weekend when five new releases opened nationwide, the crowded marketplace will now face another four new films invading multiplexes everywhere. More...

February 15, 2007: Box Office Guru Preview: Ghost Rider Leads Gang of New Flicks
Five new films, each targeting its own audience, cram into North American multiplexes giving moviegoers plenty of entertainment options over the four-day Presidents' Day holiday... More...

See More Topics...

Related Forums for Daredevil

Better than Spiderman
by: Tomater 9/23

REEL_REVIEWER
DAREDEVIL - Extremely dark rendering of comics hero is not for the kiddies - at all!
by: REEL_REVIEWER 2/26/05

REEL_REVIEWER
DAREDEVIL - Extremely dark rendering of comics hero is not for the kiddies - at all!
by: REEL_REVIEWER 2/26/05

REEL_REVIEWER
DAREDEVIL - Extremely dark rendering of comics hero is not for the kiddies - at all!
by: REEL_REVIEWER 2/26/05

REEL_REVIEWER
DAREDEVIL - Extremely dark rendering of comics hero is not for the kiddies - at all!
by: REEL_REVIEWER 2/26/05
See All

More DVDs

Top Rentals
Tomatometer Percentage Movie
FRESH: 1 93% Iron Man
FRESH: 2 85% Forgetting Sarah Marshall
ROTTEN: 3 50% Sex and the City - The…
ROTTEN: 4 52% Leatherheads
ROTTEN: 5 12% Made of Honor

More Rentals…

New On DVD This Week
Tomatometer Percentage Movie
ROTTEN: 35 35% You Don't Mess with the Zohan
ROTTEN: 18 18% The Happening
FRESH: 75 75% Paranoid Park
FRESH: 93 93% The Visitor
FRESH: 71 71% Stuck

More New Releases…

What’s Hot On RT

Mirrors

Mirrors

Alexandre Aja talks exclusively to RT!

Best Animated Movies

Best Animated Movies

Which films top RT's list of the greats?

RT's Costume Guide

RT's Costume Guide

Dress to impress this Halloween!

The Brothers Bloom

The Brothers Bloom

New pics of Rachel Weisz' latest!

Other News

  • Top Stories
  • Popular
  • Interviews
 
 

Comments

 
 
Top Stories
Headlines Comments
  
  • Weekly Ketchup: Steve Carell to Get Smart again.
 22
  • Goyer Debunks Every Single TDK Sequel Rumor Source: MTV
 42
  • Weekly Ketchup: Branagh directs Thor, Seagal vs. aliens?
 90
  • The Net Reacts to 25 Minutes of Watchmen Footage
 50
  • Brett Ratner Is Your God of War Source: UGO
 24
  • Kenneth Branagh Directing Thor? Source: Variety
 36
  • First Shots of Mia Wasikowska as Burton's Alice Surface Source: Slashfilm
 2
  • Bill Murray Talks Ghostbusters 3 Source: Ain't It Cool News
 19
  • Weekly Ketchup: Johnny Depp to play Tonto in The Lone Ranger
 47
  • Exclusive: David Carradine Cameo in Crank 2 says Statham
 2
Popular
Headlines Comments
  
  • Total Recall: Bill Murray's Best Movies
 45
  • Box Office Guru Wrapup: Chihuahua is Top Dog
 42
  • Critics Consensus: Express Scores, Body of Lies Falls Flat
 32
  • RT on DVD: The Future of Watchmen, Plus Sleeping Beauty, Touch of Evil Remastered
 30
  • Weekly Ketchup: Steve Carell to Get Smart again.
 11
  • Box Office Guru Preview: Audiences Surrounded by Lies
 6
  • Exclusive: The Fall - Tarsem's Visual Companion - Part 2
 3
  • Exclusive: Alexandre Aja talks Mirrors and Piranha 3D
 2
  • Meet Corey Feldman Courtesy of RT
 1
Interviews
Headlines Comments
  
  • Exclusive: Alexandre Aja talks Mirrors and Piranha 3D