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This is the latest Marvel comics Adaptation. After the success Spider-man, Marvel Comics films have more hope of being made but must now be compared to the standard that it has now set.

Daredevil is the story about Matt Murdock. Murdock was a kid raised in a rough part of New York called "Hells-Kitchen". After a tragic accident, Matt is rendered blind but develops his other scenes to more then compensate for the loss of his sight. His radar-sharp intuition ,and a latter streak of vengence, has Murdock to become a hero of the people. He's a trial lawyer by day and crime avenger by night.

Daredevil/Murdock is played by Oscar-winner Ben Afflack. His performance of the part is good but not spectacular. He is joined by "Alias" star Jennifer Garner. Even though she is not given a chance to stretch from her Alias role, she does handle herself well in the films more dynamic fight scenes. The films biggest scene stealler is rising star Colin Farrall. Farrall plays Daredevils arch nemesis "Bullseye". Bullseye is a psychotic, yet terminally accurate marksman. He never misses and can kill with anything from throwing-stars to (believe it or not) peanuts.

This film seems to handle the continuity of the comic-book well. Some fans my have issues with the fact that the character of the Kingpin is played by African-American actor Michael Clarke Duncun. Duncun delivers a top-notch performance of the comic-book bad-guy with style, dignity and class. As Duncun said himself ,this is a role that should not be looked at as a color ,in the hopes that that the racial barriers are lifted in Hollywood to open the door for more actors. (Fine words from a fine actor)

This film is darker and a bit more violent then Spider-man. It should be considered for viewers older and interested in a story with a harder edge then the afore mentioned film.

This film hits a home-run in its exposition to bring first-timers of the comic series up to speed. The biggest problem with this film is that it suffers one of the worst cases of sequel-itus this side of a B-rated horror movie. The film does not tie-up the events of the story loose enough to have some closure on the film in the event of no sequel, but makes all outcomes of the films major characters lay the tracks for the next installment. This film also looks like some of its aspects were lifted from other comic franchises (ala Batman, The Crow and Spider-man). The film does seem to fight hard to declare its own identity, but gets stuck in some areas of back-drop and plot-movement.

All in all, Daredevil was worth the ticket price to head out to the popcorn palace for some good action, better visuals and decent performances. After all, these days if a film can't at least accomplish that, then your better off waiting for it to come to video. But fair warning, the film will have you wanting more, weather you like it or not.

So where do I start with what went wrong in this movie. First off ,I have to address that I am a fan of Star Trek. Normally films like this , with a large fanbase (Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, James Bond, Star Wars) will still manage to please the hardcore fans. Not here.

The story breaks down like this:

The Remons (the sister race of the Romulins that seem to have been completly unheard of for the last 30 some-odd years) are revolting against the Romulins. When they're done with them, they plan of taking out the Federation. This turn of events gets in the way of the Honeymoon plans for Cmdr. Riker and new bride Cmdr. Troi. The Enterprise crew go to investigate and Capt. Picard finds out that this Revolution is being lead by his genetic clone named Shinzon. The two have their banter for the next half hour and and the the rest of the film is the galactic dog-fight between the crew of the Enterprise and Shinzons' ship the Simitor.

There's a truck-load of problems with this movie that render it beyond redemption. First off, the film really flirts with disaster by throwing around terms like clone , republic and viceroy. (All bias aside) If you don't want to be accused of pimping off another space franchise, use less of it's frequent terms.

But the problems don't end there, not by a long-shot. Shinzon develops the hots for newly-wed Deanna Troi. It's never explained why. It would have made sence if there were more of an explaniation why, like he was attracted to her empathic abilities or something more obvious. Instead we are only lead to believe that there aren't any other women on Remus and that Shinzon is not into red-heads. We also never really know why Shinzon want's to destroy earth. It's stated that he sets out to destroy the Federation, but not why he plans to start with earth. He just hates earth for some reason and want's to destroy it.

The film goes for double trouble when we find out that Data has a clone of his own called B-4. This was the films attempt at comic relief ,but the result is as funny as the characters name. Not funny ,just lame. The film makes a hopeless attempt make a have Picard relate to the average movie watcher be showing him work his mo-jo in his own Federation-issued dune-bugger. This attempt also fails miserably by being just as esoteric as the rest of the film.

Now for the rest of the film. There was no mystery to where the events of this film were going. We all knew that Shinzon was going to lock-horns with Picard, but the film still needs to hammer out the useless banter between them before the fireworks. And what about those fireworks? They were nothing special. The space-battle in this movie was merely a K-mart version of the much more superior "Wrath of Kahn", in addition to everything else. It was just so painful to watch this film knowing that it as a bad version of ST2. There's nothing worse in movies then a bad remake.

I've noticed that many of the positive reviews of this film come from people who have not seen any previous Star Trek film. Here's a tip, go out to the video store and rent "Wrath of Kahn". Trust me, your opinion of this film will then be quite different.

I really think that the DEA should have camped outside of the theaters showing this movie. Because you would have to be out of your mind to say that this was a good movie. The average person would think that astronomical drop in ticket sales would be a hint of how bad this movie could be. There's no need to say that Lord of the Rings owned the box office because the wealth is still enough to be spread to movies like, Harry Potter, Die Another Day, Maid in Manhatton, and (believe it or not) Just Married. It is about to go down in franchise history as being the lowest grossing Star Trek movie. That's right, even less then the dreadful Star Trek V: The Final Frontier. So I guess it has gone where no Federation crew has gone before, straight down the tubes.

To sum up: Speaking as a film watcher - this film was terrible. Speaking as a Star Trek fan - this movie was horrible.

As far as even numbered films go - this movie was junk.

The Star Trek films have finally been run into the ground.