James Wesley lays down the law to brothers Vladimir and Anatoly Ranskahov (Nikolai Nikolaeff, Gideon Emery), who head the Russian mob, that Daredevil needs to be assassinated. Ben’s office walls have a newspaper clipping on The Avengers’ Battle of New York. That corruption includes Wilson Fisk (Vincent D’Onofrio), aka Kingpin, who makes his first appearance after we only hear his voice in the first episode. He gets a much-needed adrenaline boost when Karen Page-who now works as Matt and Foggy’s secretary-offers inside intel on her former company that could expose a much wider city corruption. Foggy is about to turn them down, because their first referred client named John Healy (Alex Morf) seems a little too familiar with beating the legal system, when Matt pushes to take it on because he senses it will lead him closer to the criminal element he’s working to eradicate.Īctor Vondie Curtis-Hall is a good fit as Ben Urich-an investigative journalist who knows something is brewing in the city, but is constantly shut down by his superiors who feel mob stories don’t sell papers like they used to. įisk’s main stooge, James WesleyFisk’s main stooge, James Wesley (Toby Leonard Moore), approaches Nelson and Murdock to hire them (through a company front called Confederated Global Investments) on retainer to handle occasional cases in Hell’s Kitchen. Trivia: Claire is an amalgamation of two Marvel characters: Doctor Claire Temple and Night Nurse. Just one tracking shot as our hero’s already worn-down body is further depleted. No gimmicky cutaways and bullshit martial arts. The final fight scene is a heart-thumping corker.ĭirector Phil Abraham plants his lens in a dingy hall-doused in a grimy yellow-green color-as the weary Daredevil enters to take on multiple armed assailants. She patches him up, and he goes back in search of the boy. His fame is already on the rise because Claire assumes he’s the Good Samaritan (“the man in black”) whose handiwork is being seen all about town. But this time, he’s in a dumpster outside Claire Temple’s (Rosario Dawson) apartment, and he’s near death-narrowly making his escape after being lured by the Russian mob to a false location in rescue of a kidnapped boy. Note: Daredevil is based on the comic created by Stan Lee and Bill Everett, and first appeared in Daredevil #1 in April 1964. Will he get up before the baddie comes to finish him off? Who knows until it plays out. Here, Daredevil tires out like a person would-fight scenes look and feel labored-and when he goes through a window, he is knocked unconscious. I'm no pugilist, so I won’t try to describe the technical side behind the maneuvers and all, but I will say that when Black Widow, Nick Fury, etc., fight in The Avengers-it looks slick and occasionally staged (how do they manage to go on as long as they do, barely winded, with just superficial contusions).
Matt, using his heightened senses (he can hear a person’s pulse), quickly discovers she’s not 100% innocent, though she is of murder.ĭaredevil, Murdock's masked hero-in these beginning stages sporting a poor man’s Zorro attire-bookends the debut episode with some of the most realistic fight scenes. Just under six minutes of screen time is devoted to the vigilante in action…and these scenes are spectacular. Page is justifiably worried about placing her life in the newbies’ hands, and Foggy isn’t all that interested in helping the penniless woman at first. Matt and his money obsessed partner Foggy Nelson (Elden Henson) take her on as their first client. We meet Karen Page (Deborah Ann Woll) trembling over the body of a murdered man with a blood-drenched knife.
It’s just enough to not bog down the show for old fans like me (because superhero origin fatigue is a real thing) and just the right amount for new recruits to introduce the man with no fear. So, through well-inserted flashbacks, we learn of Matthew “Matt” Murdock’s (Charlie Cox) early accident that led to his blindness, burgeoning mutant powers, and his relationship with his father who was a boxer in Hell’s Kitchen. Show creator Drew Goddard wisely knows that all that running around and punching amounts to nothing if we don’t care about the person behind the mask. Here’s the reason for its achievement: old fashion character development. Hell, it's even better than some of the bloated big-screen films ( The Amazing Spider-Man 2, Fantastic Four reboot) that are beginning to water down the Marvel universe. Daredevil is the new gold standard in superhero television shows.
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