Name : Tom Long / Alias : Detroit News
Completely devoid of subtlety or sense, the film is a series of bad scenes connected by empty characters, most of whom seem like leftovers from scripts abandoned long ago.

Name : Peter Travers / Alias : Rolling Stone
Daredevil isn't laugh-out -loud lousy, it's something worse: deeply, depressingly average.

Name : John Powers / Alias : L.A. Weekly
The movie has far less emotional weight than, say, Spider-Man.

Name : Mick LaSalle / Alias : San Francisco Chronicle
One of the biggest misfires in its genre since Godzilla.

Name : J. R. Jones / Alias : Chicago Reader
[A] dull actioner.

Name : Mark Rahner / Alias : Seattle Times
Marvel's on a roll.

Name : Todd McCarthy / Alias : Variety
A pretender in the realm of bona fide superheroes.

Name : Stephen Hunter / Alias : Washington Post
Daredevil doesn't take a single dare.

Name : Bruce Westbrook / Alias : Houston Chronicle
The best Marvel movie to date.

Name : Mike Clark / Alias : USA Today
There'll be plenty of ragging to go around once audiences get a dose of the dullest live-action comic strip on record, one that lacks even an interesting villain.

Name : Richard Roeper / Alias : Ebert & Roeper
Daredevil has electric energy, a wickedly dark sense of humor, some ingenious fight scenes and that high-powered cast.

Name : Geoff Pevere / Alias : Toronto Star
Even in February, it feels like the worst movie of the year.

Name : Bruce Newman / Alias : San Jose Mercury News
With the appearance in movie theaters of Daredevil, we have now officially arrived at the bottom of the comic-book pile.

Name : Michael Rechtshaffen / Alias : Hollywood Reporter
A collection of false starts interrupted by an awful lot of angst-ridden contemplation, the picture serves up soul-searching gush with scant pulse-pounding rush.

Name : Wesley Morris / Alias : Boston Globe
Too hollow and pedestrian to dramatize the conflict between its hero's vigilante streak and his moral straits imaginatively.

Name : David Ansen / Alias : Newsweek
Torn between moody grandiosity and cartoonish mayhem, Daredevil tries to have it both ways, and succeeds at neither.

Name : Ricardo Baca / Alias : Denver Post
A well-crafted introductory course.

Name : Jay Boyar / Alias : Orlando Sentinel
The action almost never stops, which is both Daredevil's biggest asset and its greatest shortcoming.

Name : Steven Rea / Alias : Philadelphia Inquirer
After sundry Batmans and last summer's Spider-Man, the comic-book formula of childhood loss, filial revenge, and freakish physical prowess doesn't seem all that fresh anymore.

Name : Michael O'Sullivan / Alias : Washington Post
Perfectly satisfactory without being deeply satisfying.

Name : Ed Park / Alias : Village Voice
The numerous fight scenes have been filmed in Confuse-o-Rama, a headache-inducing technique that mixes a dozen too many cuts per minute, projectile P.O.V., and intermittent glimpses of the hero's sonar sensorium.

Name : David Edelstein / Alias : Slate
Kind of lousy.

Name : Trevor Johnston / Alias : Time Out
Convincing in the physical demands of the role, Affleck persuades us of the pain of sightlessness and supersensitive hearing, although writer/director Johnson's scrappy construction fails him and everyone else as the showdown approaches.

Name : Barbara VanDenburgh / Alias : Arizona Republic
While its audacity is laudable, the film ultimately has all the thrill of watching someone else play a first-person-shooter video game.

Name : Brad Wheeler / Alias : Globe and Mail
Is it much of a movie? Not really. It's more of an experience - a passive sort of virtual reality - that uses a bare-bones narrative as a vehicle for a big-time body count.

Name : Peter Travers / Alias : Rolling Stone
It's all about the ride, the relentless wallop and whoosh. But, hey, sometimes that's all a cine-junkie needs for a fix.

Name : Dennis Harvey / Alias : Variety
Only the tiniest, most basic elements of character, backstory and even narrative are offered on the run in a movie whose 95% frantic-action composition has no need or breathing space for more.

Name : Tom Russo / Alias : Boston Globe
When the action is at its sharpest, such as with Henry's mid-chase leap from a detonating truck onto the back of a motorcycle, it's spectacular. Other times, it can be as wearying as generically hyper-edited Hollywood fare.

Name : Stephen Garrett / Alias : New York Observer
[Naishuller's] debut feature is a landmark of sorts, and a potent omen in this year of mass-marketed virtual reality.

Name : Christy Lemire / Alias : ChristyLemire.com
It is pummeling. It is punishing. It is nauseating and headache-inducing.

Name : Joshua Rothkopf / Alias : Time Out
If action movies are meant to be stunning, Hardcore Henry can proudly take its place among the giants. Even better, it lets you stand with them.

Name : Stephen Whitty / Alias : New York Daily News
You could go see "Hardcore Henry" - or you could gulp down a pint of vodka, load in "Grand Theft Auto," then strap the TV to your face and throw yourself down the stairs.

Name : Amy Nicholson / Alias : MTV
Hardcore Henry is nauseating, twice over.

Name : Bruce Kirkland / Alias : Toronto Sun
The relentless action flick Hardcore Henry is totally nuts and a lot of fun for freaks.

Name : Kyle Smith / Alias : New York Post
For the first time ever, a movie has actually done it. "Hardcore Henry" has precisely replicated the experience of watching someone else play a video game.

Name : Bruce Diones / Alias : New Yorker
This first-person-shooter extravaganza has little purpose besides showing what happens when a GoPro is strapped to a series of stuntmen as they run through their repertoire of extraordinary action moves.

Name : Dave White / Alias : TheWrap
Their collective trip to hell is death tourism for the viewer; its sole, genuine feeling the one of relief that comes when it's over.

Name : Michael Ordona / Alias : San Francisco Chronicle
If one can accept the story's video-game logic and cope with the kinetosis, "Hardcore" is often exhilaratingly extreme.

Name : Stephen Dalton / Alias : Hollywood Reporter
Billed as the first-ever action movie filmed entirely from the hero's first-person viewpoint, Hardcore blasts along like a supercharged computer-game shoot-em-up, bursting with sick humor and splatterpunk violence.

Name : Rafer Guzman / Alias : Newsday
A gonzo Russian action-flick shot entirely in first-person perspective. About as coherent as it sounds, but highly inventive and bloody great fun.

Name : Will Leitch / Alias : The New Republic
A great movie fools you into thinking it's really happening. By trying to make us a part of the film itself, Hardcore Henry just keeps reminding us it's not.

Name : Michael O'Sullivan / Alias : Washington Post
Director Ilya Naishuller has said that he originally thought a 90-minute feature using the same technique was a bad idea, based on little more than a gimmick. It turns out he was right, but that won't matter to certain audiences.

Name : Ignatiy Vishnevetsky / Alias : AV Club
Hardcore Henry never aspires to rise above its one gimmick.

Name : Peter Howell / Alias : Toronto Star
First-person POV quickly gets old as the bodies stack and the story loses steam.

Name : Chris Nashawaty / Alias : Entertainment Weekly
I'm sure a lot of people will call Hardcore Henry "innovative" and "groundbreaking." And maybe it is. But it also feels more like a cool gimmick than a movie-and that gimmick gets old pretty fast.

Name : Joe Morgenstern / Alias : Wall Street Journal
A dim beacon in the darkening night of action features, signaling a path to plot-free oblivion.

Name : Matthew Lickona / Alias : San Diego Reader
The story exists mainly to provide reason and shape for the frenzy of carnage: constant, numbing, and in the film's view at least, occasionally funny.

Name : Robert Abele / Alias : Los Angeles Times
Too stuck in the swamp of empty machismo to be anything more than the feature equivalent of a soar-and-crash overdose.

Name : Tirdad Derakhshani / Alias : Philadelphia Inquirer
For about 90 seconds, the novel first-person-shooter point of view hits our bodies with an unexpected flood of adrenaline, in a heart-pounding rush. Trouble is, the chemical high doesn't last.

Name : Glenn Kenny / Alias : New York Times
Its dour eccentricity gives Hardcore Henry a potency above and beyond that of standard-issue show-off action fare. That doesn't mean it's not still obnoxious, though.

Name : Adam Graham / Alias : Detroit News
Hardcore Henry doesn't just get under your skin, it gets behind your eyeballs and uses your head as its own cockpit. For hardcore thrills, Henry is your guy.