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Sarah
Dobbs from Sandy reviews the comic book fantasy for us...
Ben
Affleck in head to toe red leather? Surely a hit? Sadly, not quite.
By
day, Matt Murdock is a pro bono lawyer. By night he's a crime fighting,
karate-kicking superhero whose senses are heightened from the radioactive
waste that blinded him as a child.
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Garner gets to grips with Ben Affleck. |
So
what do we have? Well, there's the blind yet capable hero, haunted
by the murder of his boxer father. Then there's the super rich love
interest Elektra (Jennifer Garner) and her super kicks. Throw in
a couple of pyscho villains called Bullseye and Kingpin and you
ought to have a super film. Right? Again, not quite.
The
use of a blind protagonist is welcome for its positive approach
to 'disability' and Mark Steven Johnson's direction is, thankfully,
gritty not glossy. But this is where the film becomes schizophrenic.
On the one hand it's trying to break the slick Hollywood mould.
On the other, the boy gets girl - boy loses girl - boy tries to
win girl back love story is sickeningly formulaic.
In
conclusion, average performances all round and the thin plot will
give you déjà vu (think Batman). See it only if you're a fan of
action or Affleck and Garner. Go on, I dare you.
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