Daredevil (Netflix series) Part 1 of 2 review

Daredevil (Netflix series) Part 1 of 2 review

Well, this series is miles ahead of the old movie of the same name. This series is what a Daredevil series should be. It is gritty, action packed and with tons of bad guys. It is street level action-superhero movie. Plus, it DOES tie into the overall MCU fairly well. This is a good series with only a few flaws. I'm so happy that Marvel got the rights back.

DD is set after the attack on New York as told in the first Avengers movie. And, the series does a great job showing us how these gangs moved in started buying property after the attacks. This plays a huge factor in the overreaching plot of the first season. And, this is Marvel connecting the series to movies in a very clever way. It shows DD is less of a superhero like the Avengers and more of a man on the street aka a vigilante.

I like seeing the reaction to the attacks in New York and all the scum that comes in and boots the normal people out. SHIELD and the main heroes aren't going to be concerned about that, but DD cares. There are bigger/darker things going on that DD and others aren't seeing as well, and I will get into that later.

The series shows us a dark hero that beats the living shit out of the bad guys, sometimes a bit too much. He's a scrapper, but the show also reveals that he isn't always good at his job. He screws up and does get beat up pretty good in a few episodes and those bruise linger for a while too. I have to wonder if DD ( Matt Murdock ) enjoys getting beat up on some level.

I have to note one fight though. DD takes on a group of Russian thugs and it is a brutal scrappy fight worth being ranked with some of the best fight scenes in movies. I loved this fight scene, but trust me there are some other really cool fight scenes to look out for later on such as the Kingpin one.

Speaking of the Kingpin, he's such a great villain who is played masterfully by Vincent D'Onofrio. The Kingpin doesn't appear for a while, but when he does it is such an amazing introduction. It is a stark and still intro, but we get a bit of insight into who Wilson Fisk is as a person and ties nicely into his childhood. In one moment, Kingpin is a calculating and sometimes calm crime boss and in another a brutal killer that beats a guy up to the point he chops off his head with a car door. Yes, that happens.

Yet, Kingpin views himself as good guy and D'Onofrio does a splendid job with that. There is a creepy and mean flashback to his childhood that you will need to see and speaks to how he treats the world.

I love Vincent D'Onofrio 's take on Fisk, and he almost steals his the series away from DD. I just hope Sony uses him in their (yet another) reboot of Spider-Man, because Kingpin is an enemy of both DD and Spider-Man. Since we know that the Kingpin is a guy connected to all sorts of crime groups, he could be connected to some of the bad guys in Spider-Man.

Charlie Cox plays the lead character of Daredevil. I have no idea where he came from, but damn it he's great in the role. He sort of downplays DD and Matt. I like his restrained approach because a lot of Marvel's characters are a bit broad (in a good way). It is a nice contrast. He does a great job playing up his blindness to outsiders when he's Matt, but is a complete ninja when he's DD. I love this aspect of him. They could have really screw this character up, but they didn't.

The cast of characters following up DD and Kingpin are compelling too...