8 Terrible Comic Book Movie Performances By Great Actors

4. Ben Affleck As Matt Murdock/Daredevil - Daredevil (2003)

If Batman & Robin is So Bad It€™s Good (it€™s not, really, but it€™s closer to that than this film in any case) then 2003€™s Daredevil is downright defective. The current Daredevil television series is proving that there is indeed heft in the Marvel creation, but there€™s none to be found here or in Affleck€™s laughable performance; the film is a weightless exercise in cinema, an obvious low for the Marvel franchise pre-Iron Man. It doesn€™t help that Affleck€™s turn as blind-lawyer-come-crime-fighter Matt Murdock came before his own professional renaissance (The Benaissance?), making it a lot easier to ridicule the man who is now a thoroughly effective actor (and director for that matter). But still, bad is bad, and boy is Affleck bad here. He doesn€™t even seem comfortable with the physical action, something which is often used as a counter-balance to inept action-hero performances: €œYeah, he€™s bad, but at least he€™s believable/efficient in the action scenes€ (see Taylor Kitsch in True Detective Season Two for a good example of this notion in play). Affleck will hope to have a better time of life in the superhero canon when he takes on the role of Batman in Batman V Superman: Dawn Of Justice, a promising superhero comeback vehicle if ever there was one.
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