the_wanlorn | Daredevil

So, last night I watched Daredevil.

It was an awesome movie - I think I might be over my disappointment with Hulk.

The plot was excellent, in my opinion. There were no gaping holes that went unexplained. For everything that you sat there thinking, "WTF? That doesn't make any sense!!" there would be an explanation at a later point in the movie.

Of course, I'm not talking about the end. The end of the movie left enough open things for there to be a sequel. A pretty good sequel, in fact.

Spoilers reside here-in, so I suppose a cut is warranted. Don't read if you haven't seen the movie and plan on watching it at some point.

The end of the movie is certainly left open for a sequel. First of all, there's Electra and the brail necklace that was hanging on the steel girder. That needs to be dealt with in some way. There's no doubt in my mind that she's alive somewhere and left that for Murdock, fulfilling her promise that she would "find him".

There's the required reporter that, once working to expose the identity of the superhero, now knows who it is and is working to keep the identity hidden. This happened in the Superman and (I think) Batman series.

{Side note: What's the plural of series??}

There's also, of course, the remaining villain that needs to be dealt with. Admittedly, this isn't required with the vigilante superheroes (Batman, Daredevil, etc). There will always be crime on the streets that they need to take care of. However, a main plot tends to center around a single villain.

In Daredevil, it may have appeared that there were two. But only Bullseye was dealt with by the end of the movie. Yes, Kingpin was jailed. But as Murdock pointed out, there will come a point in time when he's out of jail.

And, knowing any good villain worth his salt, Kingpin will find a way to escape from jail before parole. So there you have it - sequel.

And, not required but definitely helping with the continuance case, there's the human "helper" that knows who the superhero really is and provides aid when it is needed.

Of course, there were some problems. The villains were both remarkably underdeveloped. It was almost as though the writers expected you to be familiar with the comic books or use your imagination to fill in the blanks. There wasn't all that much building up of the villainry - both of them were suddenly there.

At the end of the movie, their purpose becomes clear and it makes sense. Still, their characters could have used some building up. The head villain isn't really supposed to be a flat character. In Daredevil, they both come off as relatively flat. Yes, there's some depth to Kingpin that comes out at the end. There's the promise of more.

In the second movie (assuming there will be one), the villain (assuming it's Kingpin) will be much more fleshed out because of this movie. Some background helps to make it more believable.

These two (or three, depending on how Electra's father is viewed) seemed far too random.

But that didn't take much away from the movie. The special effects were better (in a different way) than those in Hulk. The acrobatic skills of Murdock and Electra were quite impressive, even though odds are they were both using fly-lines.

This movie is going to be added to my collection the next time I see it. ;-)

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