Why on earth does this movie have such a lousy reputation? The mind boggles. Daredevil is a second-tier movie about a second-tier Marvel character, and so it follows that it lacks the operatic grandeur, emotional complexity, and mind-bending special effects of the Spider-Man and X-Men movies. Therefore, taken on its own modest merits, Daredevil delivers. The backstory is generic as all get-out (kid loses dad to bad guys, gains super skills, resolves to wage a one-man war on crime), but there's a nice twist here: Daredevil is blind, and his other four senses are extraordinarily heightened. It's nice to have a hero who turns a physical handicap to his advantage (and the visual effects artists deserve props for depicting Daredevil's amplified perceptions). It's also refreshing to have a character who's a semi-regular churchgoer; even though there are plenty of folks in the Marvel universe who are allegorical Christ figures, I'm glad one of these films makes room for some actual religion when its hero explores (albeit not terribly deeply) the moral weight of his vigilantism.

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