Daredevil: The Movie

by Bruce Jones

Matt Murdock, gifted with superhuman senses when an accident leaves him blind, uses his skills to protect the residents of Hell's Kitchen as the masked hero Daredevil, pitting himself against the Kingpin of Crime.

Genres: Comics, Graphic Novels, Superheroes, Marvel

128 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 2002

Reviews

[Craig · Rating 2 out of 5]

This is comprised of a somewhat truncated adaptation of the Daredevil film, the first issue of Rucka's Daredevil/Elektra Ultimate run, the first issue of Bendis' Murdock-is-out storyline, and, for some reason, a Kingpin story from a Spider-Man book, also by Rucka. I liked Larroca's art from Ultimate and Maleev with Bendis is always nicely noirish. The writing was fine, overall. Aside from the movie part, I think the book was designed more to make the reader want to go out and buy other books for the rest of the stories, rather than actually being a book for its own right. It was all fine, but rather thin.

[Emma of Themiscyra · Rating 3 out of 5]

I don't really know what I expected, but it wasn't this. This was just a mashup of already existing Daredevil comics... I was thinking it would be more like an original publication to match the movies. I dunno. They certainly didn't flow all too well. (I did really like the college bit with Elektra, though, so at least it got me wanting to read more of that.)

They were all interesting pieces by themselves and I'm sure their respective comics are great, but because they all followed such different and unique storylines, it just didn't do it for me. (Example: In one comic, Elektra was killed in front of him after they fight and he reflects that her body was never found after. In another later comic piece, they say her body was dumped in front of Matt's door. Doesn't really follow a set storyline.....)

[Antonio D.H. · Rating 3 out of 5]

Well its a comic adaptation of a movie, so I didn't expect this one to be that good. And it wasn't. Its pretty boring and doesn't have any scenes of interesting dialogue, fighting, or character building.

[Sarah · Rating 1 out of 5]

Nothing to see here, can be skipped.

[Adrian Santiago · Rating 1 out of 5]

Historia cortada, arte horrible.

[David · Rating 1 out of 5]

More of a brief synopsis than an actual story, what little plot there was to the film is almost entirely lost in this comic book adaptation. In my opinion, one of the best things about the film was Colin Farrel's interpretation of Bullseye. The character appeared even less in the comic than in the film, so even that little bright spot is denied the comic.

Included in the TPB are are samples from other Daredevil comics lines, obviously here to fill space and entice readers to purchase more comics; but all they accomplish is wasting paper. All but the last one, from Spider-Man's Tangled Web #4, are mostly forgettable and the artwork is terrible. The first supplemental, from Ultimate Daredevil Elektra Issue 1, chronicles how Matt and Elektra meet in college and begin their relationship. It wouldn't be so bad if not for the blatant racism and sexism rampant throughout the issue, and I was surprised that it was even allowed in the issue considering it's from a mainstream company like Marvel and not one of the smaller independent presses.

Save your time, watch the movie.

[Tanvir Muntasim · Rating 1 out of 5]

A lackluster attempt to capitalise on the movie release (which turned out to be a flop as well). More of a sneak peak into the DareDevil story and nothing I saw there made me interested in reading anymore of this series.

[Capucha Roja · Rating 4 out of 5]

it's a good adpatation, i think the movie it's great, only the jeniffer Gardner's carachter is the weakness of this movie....

[Stephanie · Rating 2 out of 5]

The film adaption part was too rushed, the middle comics were ok, but were more about Elektra than Daredevil, and the final comic wasn't about Daredevil at all, it was about Kingpin.