You can skip Daredevil the movie.

Poor casting, cinematography, direction, art direction, choreography, and animation.

No chemistry on screen between Matt and Elektra.

A camera never letting action unfold, choosing points of view that don't let actors perform.

The story has many moments for emotion to unfold, but you never feel with or for the characters. No emotional payoff. Ever. Just distance. The flick alludes to Matt Murdock's inner demons, his fears, his losses, the tension between his two lives. But you never sympathize or empathize. Either the director didn't give enough screen time for feelings instead of emotions, or he shot the footage and it's on the cutting room floor. 

The combat is weak, despite hand-to-hand and fighting sticks being the Daredevil's stock in trade. See a Jet Li flick instead.

The CGI characters that leap 50 to 100 feet are unreal.

Any one of these would have been enough to tank the film.

The worst crime is that done to the spirit of Hell's Kitchen. It's a dirty, scummy, vice ridden, violent, dangerous place. Corruption and money denies city services to these poorest of New York. So the streets are strewn with garbage, the people are sick from industrial waste and filth-spawned disease, the cops only come when it is too late, youth gangs and organized crime rule with fear, and brutalized children starve. Despair gives hope a daily body blow.

That gritty sensibliity ain't on screen. So this people's champion is out of context.

Daredevil is supposed to be the spiritual counterpoint to the Kitchen's open wound. A lancet defending the oppressed and helpless against oppressive forces in an uncaring world.

The film just doesn't get it across. Maybe if they cut the budget across the board, they'd have made a better movie. Fewer wasted effects, deeper character and plot development. The story begs for an indie film touch.

So: skip it.

p.s. I'm from Hell's Kitchen, my childhood neighborhood in Manhattan.