Charlie Cox Dislikes Ben Affleck’s ‘Daredevil’ Film: ‘Tonally Confused’ and the ‘Suit Sucks’
variety.comZack Sharf “Daredevil” star Charlie Cox is no fan of Ben Affleck’s 2003 “Daredevil” movie. During his recent visit to Middle East Film & Comic Con 2022 in Abu Dhabi (via People), Cox revealed he had never watched the 2003 superhero movie until after he was cast as Matt Murdock/Daredevil in the Netflix-Marvel series.“I watched it once, and then I wanted to go and do my own thing,” Cox said. “I hadn’t seen it before I got the role.
I watched it when I got the role.”While Cox said Affleck does “a really good Matt Murdock” and that “I like his Matt Murdock,” he added, “I don’t love the movie.
I feel like the movie tried to do too much and it was a little tonally confused.”“They had everyone in that movie — they had Kingpin, they had Bullseye, they had Elektra, they had Karen Page, they had Foggy,” Cox continued. “It was saturated, and it’s two hours.
So that was part of that problem. And the suit sucks!” Affleck would probably not object to Cox’s criticism. Affleck dissed his own “Daredevil” movie in 2015, telling Entertainment Weekly that the movie “didn’t work at all.” The actor added, “If I wanted to go viral I would be less polite.
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