CREDITS DAREDEVIL, 2003 dir: Mark Steven Johnson Ben Affleck Jennifer Garner Colin Farrell Michael Clarke Duncan Jon Favreau Joe Pantoliano Kevin Smith

Director Mark Steven Johnson has a fanboyís enthusiasm and knowledge of Stan Leeís comic strip, but he doesnít have the cinematic technique to light up the screen (though, to be fair, the Director's Cut is vastly better).

That job is left to Colin Farrell’s Bullseye, with the kind of scenery-chewing brio not witnessed since Bette Davis hurricaned through the fifties. And isnít this exactly the same plot as Batman?

Set in New York’s notorious, and largely gone, ‘Hellís Kitchen’ district, but despite a few establishing shots of NY, the filming locale is largely downtown LA, on rooftops surrounding Fifth Street and Broadway.

LA’s Olympic Auditorium is usually the venue for boxing or wrestling scenes in the movies (see Ed Wood, Rocky and Raging Bull for starters) and, seemingly true to form, the red devil wrestles at the Olympic. The frontage seen, though, is the old (and closed) Olympic Theatre, 313 West 8th Street, downtown LA (where Charlton Heston watches Woodstock in 1971 horror flick The Omega Man), while the backstage scenes use the bowels of the old Ambassador Hotel, which stood – until recently – at 3400 Wilshire Boulevard.

The apartment of Matt Murdock (Ben Affleck) is the Arcade Building, 542 South Broadway, between Fifth and Sixth Streets (which also served as the movieís HQ). You might recognise the entrance from S.W.A.T., As the spot where Hondo (Samuel L Jackson) and Jim Street (Farrell, again) check out the vegetarian cop.

Daredevil location: The Black and White Ball: Millennium Biltmore Hotel, South Grand Avenue, downtown LA

The black and white party, where Murdock takes the opportunity to confront Kingpin (Michael Clarke Duncan) is the Millennium Biltmore Hotel, 506 South Grand Avenue, a smart Spanish-Italian Renaissance landmark (see Beverly Hills Cop for more details).

Even the ëEnglishí pub, where Bullseye demonstrates the lethal potential of the humble paperclip, is LA. You can test your accuracy at the dartboards of Ye Olde Kingís Head, 116 Santa Monica Boulevard, a British expat watering hole in Santa Monica.

Daredevil location: Bullseye gets the call from Kingpin in the 'English' pub: Olde King's Head, Santa Monica

This reasonable facsimile of a good old English boozer, a stone's throw from the Santa Monica oceanfront, is great place for homesick Brits. There's a shop next door where you can get essentials such as (slightly late) UK newspapers, baked beans and proper salad cream. Exotic, huh?