Name : Steven Rea / Alias : Philadelphia Inquirer
After sundry Batmans and last summer's Spider-Man, the comic-book formula of childhood loss, filial revenge, and freakish physical prowess doesn't seem all that fresh anymore.

Name : Mike Clark / Alias : USA Today
There'll be plenty of ragging to go around once audiences get a dose of the dullest live-action comic strip on record, one that lacks even an interesting villain.

Name : Mark Rahner / Alias : Seattle Times
Marvel's on a roll.

Name : Ricardo Baca / Alias : Denver Post
A well-crafted introductory course.

Name : J. R. Jones / Alias : Chicago Reader
[A] dull actioner.

Name : David Edelstein / Alias : Slate
Kind of lousy.

Name : Mick LaSalle / Alias : San Francisco Chronicle
One of the biggest misfires in its genre since Godzilla.

Name : Trevor Johnston / Alias : Time Out
Convincing in the physical demands of the role, Affleck persuades us of the pain of sightlessness and supersensitive hearing, although writer/director Johnson's scrappy construction fails him and everyone else as the showdown approaches.

Name : Michael O'Sullivan / Alias : Washington Post
Perfectly satisfactory without being deeply satisfying.

Name : Peter Travers / Alias : Rolling Stone
Daredevil isn't laugh-out -loud lousy, it's something worse: deeply, depressingly average.

Name : Jay Boyar / Alias : Orlando Sentinel
The action almost never stops, which is both Daredevil's biggest asset and its greatest shortcoming.

Name : Todd McCarthy / Alias : Variety
A pretender in the realm of bona fide superheroes.

Name : Richard Roeper / Alias : Ebert & Roeper
Daredevil has electric energy, a wickedly dark sense of humor, some ingenious fight scenes and that high-powered cast.

Name : Wesley Morris / Alias : Boston Globe
Too hollow and pedestrian to dramatize the conflict between its hero's vigilante streak and his moral straits imaginatively.

Name : Bruce Westbrook / Alias : Houston Chronicle
The best Marvel movie to date.

Name : David Ansen / Alias : Newsweek
Torn between moody grandiosity and cartoonish mayhem, Daredevil tries to have it both ways, and succeeds at neither.

Name : Michael Rechtshaffen / Alias : Hollywood Reporter
A collection of false starts interrupted by an awful lot of angst-ridden contemplation, the picture serves up soul-searching gush with scant pulse-pounding rush.

Name : Geoff Pevere / Alias : Toronto Star
Even in February, it feels like the worst movie of the year.

Name : Stephen Hunter / Alias : Washington Post
Daredevil doesn't take a single dare.

Name : Bruce Newman / Alias : San Jose Mercury News
With the appearance in movie theaters of Daredevil, we have now officially arrived at the bottom of the comic-book pile.

Name : Ed Park / Alias : Village Voice
The numerous fight scenes have been filmed in Confuse-o-Rama, a headache-inducing technique that mixes a dozen too many cuts per minute, projectile P.O.V., and intermittent glimpses of the hero's sonar sensorium.

Name : John Powers / Alias : L.A. Weekly
The movie has far less emotional weight than, say, Spider-Man.

Name : Tom Long / Alias : Detroit News
Completely devoid of subtlety or sense, the film is a series of bad scenes connected by empty characters, most of whom seem like leftovers from scripts abandoned long ago.