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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 : David Edelstein / Alias : Slate
Kind of lousy.

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

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

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

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

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

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 : Steven Rea / Alias : Philadelphia Inquirer
Egregiously silly, generic .

Name : Joe McGovern / Alias : Entertainment Weekly
Criminal's story moves like a fat cow.

Name : Rafer Guzman / Alias : Newsday
So-so pulp, elevated by Costner as a feral felon.

Name : Randy Cordova / Alias : Arizona Republic
You may never believe one minute of "Criminal," but Costner sure does.

Name : Soren Anderson / Alias : Seattle Times
"Criminal" is as by-the-numbers as thrillers come. But a payday is a payday, I guess. Bank those bucks, people, and go on to something better.

Name : Bruce Kirkland / Alias : Toronto Sun
Criminal is a screwed-up mess as a story and as an action movie with a so-called moral lesson in it. In fact, the more I think about it, the less I like it.

Name : Matthew Lickona / Alias : San Diego Reader
All the ingredients are there for a pleasant pander to grumpy old white men: the craggy actors, the foreign bad guys wielding confusing technology, the kindness of beautiful young women, and the nobility of sacrifice.

Name : Mick LaSalle / Alias : San Francisco Chronicle
"Criminal" depicts a compelling situation, made rich and entertaining through its extreme characters.

Name : Andrew Barker / Alias : Variety
Struggling to generate much tension, the film opts for sensory battery in the action scenes, rendering gunshots as loud as cannon fire and splashing blood every which way.

Name : Michael O'Sullivan / Alias : Washington Post
Like its brain-damaged protagonist, "Criminal" just shouts and shoots its way into, not out of, an oblivion of illogic, plot holes and emotionally unengaging scenery-chewing.

Name : Mark Jenkins / Alias : NPR
With its European locations, electro-thump score, and near-ceaseless violence, the movie plays like something tooled in French producer-scripter Luc Besson's factory for international action mashups.

Name : James Berardinelli / Alias : ReelViews
Criminal is an action-thriller with a science fiction twist. To the extent that its purpose is to energize and involve an audience, it succeeds.

Name : Kenneth Turan / Alias : Los Angeles Times
Half science-fiction tale, half espionage thriller, it's a pleasantly far-fetched endeavor that moves along so briskly that it leaves no time to consider its implausibilities, which are many.

Name : Sara Stewart / Alias : New York Post
Guns, gore and good actors shoehorned into one-note parts.

Name : Stephen Whitty / Alias : New York Daily News
It's like the movie was written in crayon, in the margins of a comic book.

Name : Ignatiy Vishnevetsky / Alias : AV Club
Perhaps it's almost too perfect that the movie should suffer from a personality conflict of its own; too bad that it's the uninspired direction and not the demented pulpiness that dominates in the end.

Name : Peter Keough / Alias : Boston Globe
Kevin, why don't they just let you be bad as you want to be?

Name : Kate Taylor / Alias : Globe and Mail
Neither scriptwriters Douglas Cook and David Weisberg nor Vromen in the director's chair are subtle enough to figure out how to do both action and character.

Name : Todd McCarthy / Alias : Hollywood Reporter
Even if you've allowed yourself to hope that the redoubtable actors might tilt the proceedings in a positive direction, almost every choice made by director Ariel Vromen. sends Criminal spiraling toward overwrought silliness.

Name : Peter Howell / Alias : Toronto Star
So much wasted talent. Downright Criminal, it is.

Name : Richard Roeper / Alias : Chicago Sun-Times
Given the lurid, stupid, loony and unintentionally laughable nature of this espionage thriller, I found some measure of entertainment studying the vastly different approaches taken by Costner, Jones and Oldman.

Name : Tom Huddleston / Alias : Time Out
The fact that it's all played completely straight only makes it funnier.

Name : Neil Genzlinger / Alias : New York Times
It's best not to think about this preposterous story too hard. Just ride it to its even more preposterous climax, enjoying Mr. Costner and a steady supporting cast (Gary Oldman as the C.I.A. honcho; Gal Gadot as Bill's wife) along the way.