When Daredevil didn't screen for critics until the last minute, you had to think this film version of the Marvel Comic -- starring Ben Affleck as the blind lawyer who kicks bad-guy ass by night as a masked vigilante in a leather outfit the color of red licorice -- would suck big time.

Surprise. Daredevil isn't laugh-out-loud lousy, it's something worse: deeply, depressingly average. Writer-director Mark Steven Johnson, responsible for the wussified Simon Birch, tries to blend the dark world of…

Attorney Matt Murdock is blind, but his other four senses function with superhuman acuteness. By day he is a lawyer representing the poor, but by night he is Daredevil--a relentless avenger of justice.

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At the tender age of 12, Matt Murdock (Ben Affleck), was splashed in the eyes with radioactive waste and lost his sight--but his other four senses developed with superhuman sharpness. He grew up to become a bleeding-heart lawyer, running a law practice with his best friend Foggy Nelson (Jon…

The only thing remarkable about the drool that is Daredevil is how it scammed audiences out of $103 million. When the flick debuted in February, we were all curious. But word got out fast that the Marvel Comic created by Stan Lee and Bill Everett in 1964 had lost its darkness in Mark Steven Johnson's limp screen adaptation. On DVD, the film is a wan thing indeed. Ben Affleck seems even more lightweight and lost as Matt Murdock, a blind lawyer by day, a daredevil crusader by night. It…