Ben Affleck: 5 Awesome Performances And 5 That Sucked

5 That Sucked...

5. Daredevil (2003)

Peering back over our shoulder at a pre-Nolan comic book film landscape, films like Daredevil seem absolutely ludicrous, in all of their camp and theatrics. Though superhero films had already picked up a fair head of steam by 2003 - largely thanks to X-Men - it was still a relatively nascent enterprise, albeit one which Hollywood stars were jumping on like white on rice, and so we have Ben Affleck playing blind lawyer turned superhero, Daredevil. Though Affleck is hardly horrible, it's largely a case of a player being wrong for the part; Affleck isn't particularly convincing as the goody-goody character, especially when compared to the likes of Tobey Maguire's Spider-Man. If his better roles have proven anything, it's that he needs a character with a dilemma, with a little dualism, but the Matt Murdock presented here, not really through any fault of Affleck's, is curiously one-note. His chemistry with Jennifer Garner - who would eventually become his wife - is what works best, but really, the whole film is just a missed opportunity from start to finish, not just with the casting.