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Daredevil (2003) -- A man blinded by toxic waste which also enhanced his remaining senses fights crime as an acrobatic martial arts superhero.
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Overview

User Rating:
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Writer (WGA):
Mark Steven Johnson (screenplay)
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Release Date:
14 February 2003 (USA) more
Tagline:
A Guardian Devil. more
Plot:
A man blinded by toxic waste which also enhanced his remaining senses fights crime as an acrobatic martial arts superhero. full summary | add synopsis
Awards:
4 wins & 14 nominations more
User Comments:
Better than Spiderman, in my opinion... more (978 total)

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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Daredevil: A Daring New Vision (USA) (director's cut (DVD title))
Daredevil (Canada: French title) (France) [fr]
Сорвиголова (Russia) [ru]
Daredevil (Finland) [fi]
Daredevil (Finland: Swedish title) [sv]
Daredevil (Italy) [it]
Daredevil (Greece) [el]
Daredevil (Germany) [de]
Daredevil (Slovakia) [sk]
Daredevil (Czech Republic) [cs]
Daredevil (Spain) [es]
Daredevil - Mies vailla pelkoa (Finland) (promotional title) [fi]
Daredevil - kartmatu tasuja (Estonia) [et]
Daredevil: El hombre sin miedo (Argentina) [es]
Demolidor - O Homem Sem Medo (Brazil) [pt]
Korkusuz (Turkey: Turkish title) [tr]
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MPAA:
Rated PG-13 for action/violence and some sensuality.
Runtime:
103 min | USA:133 min (director's cut)
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2.35 : 1 more
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Certification:
USA:PG-13 (certificate #39586) | Switzerland:14 (canton of Zurich) | Iceland:12 (video rating) | Iceland:14 (theatrical rating) | Netherlands:12 | India:UA | USA:R (director's cut) | Germany:16 (also director's cut) | Brazil:12 | USA:TV-14 (edited tv version) | Malaysia:U (2008 director's cut DVD release) | Argentina:13 | Australia:M (director's cut) | Canada:13+ (Québec) | Canada:14A | Finland:K-15 | France:-12 | Germany:12 (cut) | Hong Kong:IIB | Malaysia:(Banned) | Mexico:B | New Zealand:M | Norway:15 | Peru:14 | Philippines:PG-13 | Portugal:M/12 | Singapore:NC-16 (director's cut) | Singapore:NC-16 | Singapore:PG (cut) | South Korea:15 | Spain:13 | Sweden:11 | Switzerland:14 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:14 (canton of Vaud) | UK:15 | USA:PG-13 | Greece:K-13

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Trivia:
In the comics, Bullseye wears a blue and white costume. This wasn't used in the film in keeping with its realistic tone. more
Goofs:
Continuity: When Matt puts mustard in his coffee, some of it drips down the side of the mug, but when Foggy goes to drink it, the mustard is gone. more
Quotes:
Jose Quesada: What do *you* want?
Daredevil: Justice.
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in The Eye (2008) more
Soundtrack:
Learn the Hard Way more

FAQ

What did Bullseye mean by "I want a bloody costume"?
Who is the forensic assistant? He looks familiar!
Who created the Daredevil character?
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92 out of 168 people found the following comment useful.
Better than Spiderman, in my opinion..., 19 February 2003
Author: perni from Owensboro, KY

Where Spiderman was colorful and almost cartoonish, Daredevil is gritty and merciless. Whatever you thought couldn't happen in Peter Parker's world will more than likely happen in Matt Murdock's neck of the woods. Because people die here. Sometimes they die slowly and painfully. The superheroes go home with scars on their backs, broken teeth, and more than a few gruesome images that need to be repressed. For all of these reasons I liked Daredevil, because it takes chances by offering a hero that is by no means invincible or conventional.

The origin story of the character Daredevil is pretty complicated, but, as the helpful gentleman in the theater so aptly put it, "He's blind, but he can see stuff blind." Let's just leave it at this: As a kid, Matt Murdock was blinded by radioactive material in a freak accident. This caused his other senses to become phenomenally acute, to the point where Matt can track criminals by their scent and use sound waves as a sort of radar. He uses his newfound abilities to protect those who will not be protected by the justice system, all the while hoping that one day he will find the person who killed his father.

If you're a fan of the first two Batman movies, you'll find a lot to love in Daredevil. There are still some comic book elements that require some suspension of disbelief, like the fact that Matt could construct an entire high-tech lair beneath a church while working as a pro-bono lawyer, but the movie is not fantasy-driven. The fight scenes will make you wince at their realism, the love story is not corny or forced (as opposed to a certain flick called Just Married), and the characters are complex, uncertain people who just happen to don masks and fight on rooftops.

Do you remember the parts in the old Christopher Reeve Superman movies where Clark would hear someone crying for help in the distance? He would always be having dinner with Lois Lane at the time, and had to make up some dumb excuse for ditching the scene like, "Oh! I just forgot. I have a book due at the library." Then he would dash off to save the day, leaving Lois high and dry. Well, in today's feature, Matt hears someone crying for help, but when his love interest, Elektra, asks him to stay, he actually does. With out-of-left-field scenes like this, I couldn't help but enjoy Daredevil.

Some might be surprised at how little screen time the villains get in this movie. Kingpin, a Don Giovini mobster type, and Bullseye, an Irish nut with a couple of loose screws, are important parts of our story, but they don't steal the show. Going back to the Batman comparison, many movie buffs think that Jack Nicholson's role as the joker actually become more interesting than the winged knight himself. Not so in this movie, as Daredevil is the guy whom the role shebang revolves around. By deciding to focus on the hero more than the villain, the audience can get into his head and root for him to the last battle. Matt is a cool guy because he's not a wealthy playboy or Kryptonian who can smash through walls. Other than his heightened senses and combat skills, he's just a regular guy who happens to like read leather.

After X-Men and Spiderman became huge hits, it was expected that Hollywood would start churning out more superhero flicks as fast as they could make them. Thankfully, Daredevil doesn't seem recycled or rushed and actually brings something new to the table.

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