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Jun 25, 2014ManMachine rated this title 2 out of 5 stars
A blind, crime-fighting superhero!? Gee! What will they think of next? I know this isn't saying much, but I found that about the only really interesting conversation that took place in Daredevil's story (this happened more than a few times) was in regards to all of the speculation being made over whether or not there were alligators actually living down inside NYC's sewer system. It's not like I really care, one way or the other, about alligators being down there amongst all of that crap & crud, but that just gives you a pretty good idea of how insufferably dull & dreary the overall rapport was between all of the characters in this let-down-of-a-movie. Personally, I think that this time around Stan Lee and Bill Everett's conception of the Daredevil character has got to be the absolute dumbest of all their joint superhero creations put together from Marvel Comics' heyday (circa. 1964). Like, c'mon, now - A 12 year-old boy gets seriously splashed in the face with toxic waste and this doesn't kill him, or make him violently ill, or even give him face-cancer!? No. It just blinds him, but this doesn't ruin his life. On the contrary, instead, it heightens his 4 other senses to the extreme (which is a big plus). And as he matures into a man he becomes as agile as an acrobat from the 5th Dimension, or something. (Spare me!) Daredevil's story suffered a further traumatic blow by the unwelcome introduction of Elektra Natchios into all of the crime-fighting action. The icky romance that inevitably transpired between Murdock and this ninja-fighting rich-girl was an ultimate stinkeroo. And, finally - Like, what the heck was with that goddamn over-sized pressure-cooker (?) that Murdock sometimes slept in? Did he design and build that contraption, too!?