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Daredevil follows blind lawyer Matt Murdock, who uses his heightened senses and martial skills to fight crime by night as the masked vigilante Daredevil. When crime lord Kingpin tightens his grip on Hell’s Kitchen and assassin Bullseye enters the picture, Matt’s world becomes dangerously personal. Based on the Marvel Comics hero, the film brought one of Marvel’s darkest street-level characters to cinema. Daredevil (2003) is a Marvel Comics screen adaptation from 2003, sitting in the wider Comic Movie DB archive as one of the movie entries that helps connect page-to-screen storytelling beyond the obvious cape-and-cowl crowd. The page is especially useful for readers tracking the people involved, with Ben Affleck, Colin Farrell, Ellen Pompeo, Jennifer Garner, Jon Favreau, Michael Clarke Duncan, Vincent D’Onofrio among the main names connected to the project. Behind the camera, Mark Steven Johnson gives the adaptation its shape, helping define whether it leans more into spectacle, character drama, genre thrills or straight-up comic-book chaos. We have rated this 7 out of 10, which makes it a worthwhile entry to revisit when comparing how well comic properties translate across different studios, eras and audience expectations. For SEO and fan discovery, it belongs here because it adds context to the bigger comic movie timeline: not every adaptation has to be perfect, but each one says something about the genre, the audience it was chasing and the kind of stories studios believed could work on screen.
Director
Mark Steven Johnson
Released
October 11, 2000
Runtime
2 hr 13 min
Genres
action
adventure
fantasy
Rated
12
Studio
Array
Universe
Marvel
Updated
14 May 2026
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Daredevil (2003) Review 7/10
We have rated this 7 out of 10. Daredevil arrived before superhero films really figured out tone, and you can feel it balancing between noir tragedy and early-2000s rock-video energy. Ben Affleck gets more criticism than he deserves, while Colin Farrell clearly decided subtlety was optional as Bullseye. The Director’s Cut is genuinely much stronger and shows the film’s better version hiding underneath. Imperfect, but far more interesting than its reputation suggests.
Did You Know?
- Daredevil is based on the Marvel Comics hero created by Stan Lee and Bill Everett.
- Ben Affleck plays Matt Murdock.
- The film was released in 2003.
- Jennifer Garner plays Elektra.
- Colin Farrell plays Bullseye.
- Michael Clarke Duncan plays Kingpin.
- The Director’s Cut is widely considered better than the theatrical version.
- Mark Steven Johnson directed the movie.
- The film later spun off Elektra.
- It helped pave the way for later Daredevil adaptations.
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