10 Terrible Superhero Movies With One Redeeming Feature
2. Daredevil: The Director's Cut
If Daredevil had arrived in cinemas as director Mark Steven Johnson intended, it wouldn't have been a superhero classic, but it at least would have been watchable. As proven by the director's cut, there was a coherent story in there at one point.
The Man Without Fear's one and only cinematic outing to date was stripped bare in the cutting room, robbed of its heart and soul. When the editors were done, all that remained were pointless action scenes and an even more pointless romance.
Ben Affleck's Matt Murdoch was robbed of screen time in the theatrical release, his role reduced to that of a cardboard stand-in for the suited-up Daredevil. In Johnson's original vision, he's a character with depth, fleshed out in a subplot involving a gangbanger who has been framed for murder, which ended up in the bin.
When most people think of Affleck's Daredevil, they recall the substandard misfire they wasted their hard-eraned money to see in cinemas in 2003, and that's a shame because a much better version came out on DVD later that year.