I would advise anyone to give the director's cut of Daredevil a watch. It's one of the few times in history when a director's cut is actually a completely different film and an infinitely better film than the theatrical version which is a bastardisation of one of the best comic book adaptations. Let me explain:
Firstly it's the version that actually contains the plot, characters and the story. Secondly the crap love scenes, which were shot afterwards for the theatrical version are not in the director's cut and thirdly, the action scenes, and of course Bullseye, along with all the other villains, doesn't die. Only the girl dies.
The kingpin's demise and the actual reason for it is explained better too.
The crap playground scene is still there but you soon forget it. I was shocked when I first saw the directo'rs cut. When I saw DD in the cinema I thought half the film was missing and that it was awful. I had heard so many peopIe beforehand say that it was going to be one of the best comic book films ever, judging by the script they'd read. I later found out it was true and why it conflicted with what I had first seen.
The original cut of the film was the director's final cut, which is the good one. The studios didn't have confidence in it because it was too long, had too much story was too dark and had and no love scenes. So they demanded the story be cut back and more love scenes included. So they took out the guts and added stuffing.
If the director's cut had been released originally I think it would have been a success, unfortunately it wasn't.
