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Films like Daredevil.

Daredevil (2003) reads as Neutral, breathless, extreme fantasy / action, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured. Every film below is ranked by distance across the same twelve hand-scored axes — with what it keeps, and where it walks away. Not a genre dump.

X2 (2003) poster
1. X22003

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Fullmetal Alchemist: The Conqueror of Shamballa (2005) poster
2. Fullmetal Alchemist: The Conqueror of Shamballa2005

Keeps the bone-dry seriousness and the world-sized stakes — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Immortals (2011) poster
3. Immortals2011

Keeps the bone-dry seriousness and the world-sized stakes — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children (2005) poster
4. Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children2005

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Appleseed: Ex Machina (2007) poster
5. Appleseed: Ex Machina2007

Keeps the bone-dry seriousness and the world-sized stakes — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Hancock (2008) poster
6. Hancock2008

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Mission to Mars (2000) poster
7. Mission to Mars2000

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Dredd (2012) poster
8. Dredd2012

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Expelled from Paradise (2014) poster
9. Expelled from Paradise2014

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

We Are from the Future (2008) poster
10. We Are from the Future2008

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Spriggan (1998) poster
11. Spriggan1998

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (2008) poster
12. The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor2008

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness; trades toward a relentless forward drive.

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