Blind vengeance from a lawyer who takes the law into his own hands (or billyclub) in the dark alleyways of New York's mean streets? That'll be Daredevil, then.
Widely considered the red-headed stepchild of the current Marvel movie family, Mark Steven Johnson's fan-specific effort never quite hits the peaks of X-Men or Spider-Man. But don't write it off that easily. For while there are dubious moments (log-fire love alert!) and a somewhat mixed tone, Johnson's brave adap largely echoes the dark core of the source material, unafraid to get grit in its leather-clad knees. This is a noirish, faithful conversion that shares a spot-on comics sensibility with its superhero stablemates - and, in Colin Farrell's OTT Bullseye, it also gives us a belting baddie.
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Brutal honesty is the theme for the commentary with Johnson and producer Gary Foster. They're happy to mix picking nits with giving due praise, and always manage to keep the gush in check. An hour-long comic-to-screen doc takes time to delve deeply, easily showing up a basic HBO behind-the-scenes featurette that adds exactly sod all, while the text commentary is a mecca for trivia hounds. And don't miss the interviews with the important writer/artist types who contributed to the Devil's development - you don't have to be a comic-book fanboy to lap up gab this informative.
