Hmmm. This is a hard review. I love movies, and I love to critique and watch them. This is going to be a very fun year for movies. I would love to have a job that paid me to watch movies and critique them. The only problem with those fanatical critics is that they see movies as art. I like to watch movies as entertainment, and as a movie... not art. Sometimes they are so wonderful that they DO feel like art, and you can't help but to draw yourself into the picture as you are watching it. But I hope and pray that I never become that crazy of a fanatic that I begin to watch movies to tear it down and show the world that it could have been better. For this reason, I have a hard time to really pick at movies such as Lord of the Rings or Star Wars, although, there are faults, and little things everyone and their mothers agree should have been done differently, I personally loved them. One more than the other, but still, I enjoyed them as a whole. As entertainment. And as entertainment they served their purpose for me.

However... for this movie. I wanted 2 things to be proven to me. 1) Ben Affleck is on the uprising in his roles of movies. I've enjoyed his take on movies and acting in his past few rolls, (Pearl Harbor, Sum of All Fears). And I am beginning to like him as an actor instead of a cheesy, chick-magnet. And 2) I wanted to see if Marvel could pull off a 3rd Comic book movie adaption successfully. (After the two successful movies X-Men and Spider-man).

I love Marvel and I love what they've done thus far to the movie industry. They've set a high par. My wife and I watched the movie, and to answer the above 2 questions/concerns, Ben Affleck brought the character to life with what he had. I thought he did a pretty descent job.  Not great, but okay, and it could have been worse. He made Matt Murdock exactly who he was in the comic books. I really couldn't have asked for much more. The look and feel of him being in a superhero role looked comfortable to him. Still new and not perfect... but comfortable. His movies and acting in my eyes didn't necessarily raise in my eyes, but it didn't hurt him on the poll.

To answer the 2nd question; if Marvel could pull off a 3rd consecutive comicbook movie. That's what I'm having trouble with figuring out. There is one thing I absolutely LOVED about this movie. It was the way they portrayed his "sonar" so-to-speak. Yes he is blind, and yes he can't see with his eyes, but he has an enhanced sonar, like a bat. And he technically can see better than you and I. Only if there is sound. That of course becomes his cryptonite. If there is too much overbearing sound, then it criples him. And the way they portrayed his radar was amazing. Very original, and in my mind done perfectly.

The acting. Not the best... but WAY better than most comic book movies. (I'm not even going to go into my disapointing soap box about the insanely aweful Superman's and Batman's).

One thing my wife did not enjoy is seeing the innocent die. Good people die, and one thing that is unfortunate, is that quite often they are completely innocent, or wonderful people. This movie had good people die, innocent and not innocent. But there were a few of them that were more disturbing. For instance, Spider-man, during the parade and balloons scene. There were a big handful of innocent people that died. But it was done, dare I say, more classy. It wasn't flowered up, or detailed. It was done, the point was made, and it moved on.

Superman does good because he wants justice to be done for the pure and the good. He protects the innocent. Batman protects the innocent and sees justice out of Revenge. That's where it all started. His parents were murdered, and he decided he didn't like that anymore, and takes the law into his own hands. Unfortunately after the first Batman, which was darker, and more "serious", they decided to go with the horrible acting and the cheesy one-liners route. And it all went down hill after the first one, and progressively got worse and worse.

DareDevil is no different than Batman. Different man, different reasons, but the same situation. Father was murdered, and he wants justice for the innocent. With certain research with the goverment, and having a Father-in-law a retired cop, a brother-in-law a cop, and other retired policemen friends, there are too many bad people out there that get away with... literally murder. In the courtrooms, is where the blood is really shown. Lawyers don't care who is innocent. They want their client to win regardless, and they will lie, cheat, steal, and smuggle themselves to a win no matter the cost. Of course this is not the case with every lawyer. My brother is an honest lawyer. But the stories of people who rape, murder, and other acts of random violence, and then get a meer slap on the wrist is a countless amount each day. I can see how one would want to take the matter into their own hands. Unfortunately we aren't the judge. And although sometimes I would love to see the law taken into civilians hands on some of these guilty parties, we just need to bite our lip and understand they truly will "get theirs" in the end.

Matt Murdock (aka, DareDevil) can't wait that long. He decides to use his gifts to bring the guilty down. Which in some cases in this movie are more for the good, and he truly protects the innocent, or at least puts forth a solid effort. His spark, his flame, although is definitely triggered by anger towards evil, and this is not the way to go.

There is one thing to protect the innocent, but it is very different to go and destroy the evil before the evil happened. That was my problem with Minority Report. But I won't get into that.

So in a wrap up, the evil in the movie is evil. Sometimes they should have just passed it up a little quicker, instead of dwelling on the evil... that's not what the crowd wants to see. We need a hero, and the evil should have been stopped earlier a few times in the film. But unfortunately that is a reality. So this was a little more accurate that I'd like to think the world is.

In the end, DareDevil seemed to be having the same struggle I am having in writing this review. He isn't sure if he is the bad guy or not. But in the end, he proves where he really stands, and the justice prevails in a good way. This was just the beginnings of DareDevil, where he was trying to find his place in life. He has now found it, just like Batman did in the first movie, but hopefully from here on out in DareDevil, if there is ever a sequal, it won't be strewn with the awful diologue and lame storylines.