First, the man was nothing close to Daredevil apart from being blind.

I have no idea how that comparison got made based on the movie I saw.

Spoilers.

The guy was former military in excellent athletic shape in a creaky old house in a completely empty neighborhood.

So yeah, he could hear shit better than post, particularly in that situation.

He was able to disarm Money because Money was a pussy with no skills and the blind man was an obviously athletic former member of the military. He was able to get around his house in the dark because it’s his house and muscle memory takes over to a significant degree.

People count steps and shit like that. In the basement you see him swipe at a fan and raise his hand to hit something above. I can’t remember what that was specifically but it was clear that he used both as markers.

So yeah, an athletic, ex-military blind guy in his own dark basement who has had time to adjust to that environment who has markers set up to help him navigate the place has a huge advantage over a pussy kid and his trailer park girl friend.

Still, he fired shots at random all through the movie and only had a distinct advantage in the dark and in close quarters.

I don’t see superpowers in that situation in the slightest.

As far as the movie? It was a poorly written, unimaginative train wreck.

There was no reason to root for anyone until you realize this dude is a psychotic, rapey kidnapper with B Movie motives and even then, I didn’t particularly care what happened to the terrible people who initially plotted to rob a blind war veteran of the cash settlement he got from the family of the girl who killed his daughter.

Why was anyone supposed to care about Alex again? Because he seemed somewhat intelligent? That is aside from the whole ‘robbing the homes of families his father’s job is to protect’ thing.

Money? Not remotely sympathetic. The smartest creative choice of the entire movie was killing him early.

Rocky? Ok, her mom is a pile of shit and her life outlook appeared relatively hopeless. That’s sympathetic until…. She decided to rob a blind war veteran of the cash settlement he got from the family of the girl who killed his daughter. The only thing more repulsive was the fact that said blind man turned out to be rapey. Actually… well… sort of.

I’m not sure “rapey” adequately sums up what the fuck THAT was. I tried to lookup the proper term for “forced insemination” and got nothing but links to porn videos catering to that unexpectedly in-demand fetish. Anyhow, it took something that repulsive to make us forget the awful thing she was there to do and I ultimately felt worse for the pain felt by the guy who lost his child and it would have taken a successful attempt to impregnate Rocky to balance that scale.

Also, I felt no relief for the stereotypically reserved little sister from the poor trailer trash family. Given Rocky’s track record of terrible decision making up to and including the choice to escape to a state one of the highest costs of living in the country I have little hope for her. She’ll most likely wind up in San Diego or Los Angeles paying 2000 a month for a studio apartment in a slum and given her attraction to truly awful men that poor kid will likely have to defend herself from her sisters creepy, touchy-feely boyfriends who don’t have half the warped sense of integrity of the guy her sister stole the money from for years to come.

Also, that ending was a fucking copout. Maybe I was wrong and that dude really did have super powers.