A none too Marvel-lous spin-off from Daredevil.
Elektra (2005)
Genre: Action/Adventure
Starring: Jennifer Garner, Goran Visnjic, Will Yun Lee, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Terence Stamp
Screenwriter: Zak Penn, Stuart Zicherman, Raven Metzner
Producer: Arnon Milchan, Gary Foster, Avi Arad
Composer: Christophe Beck
DVD Info
Release:
Mar 1, 2006
UMD Features:
- Note: This release is in the UMD format for Sony PSP players only.
- Widescreen
Audio:
- DST 5.1 - English
- Dolby Digital 5.1 - English
- Dolby Surround Sound - French, Spanish
Reviews
Garner may justify her reputation as an action woman, but fails to prove that sais matter.
It's shockingly dull for a popcorn flick, and only ardent fans of the comic are likely to enjoy it.
Garner is an extremely likeable actress, even if she occasionally mistakes acting for pouting - she's the reason the film is never less than watchable.
There's better superhero action in Hellboy or Spiderman, and there's more enjoyable Jennifer Garner fare in 13 Going On 30.
Almost bad enough to be a guilty pleasure, except that it takes itself so seriously.
What's missing in this Elektra is a certain sense of play and imagination.
It felt like I was back in my childhood watching serial chapters at a Saturday matinee.
This doesn't exactly set the world on fire, but I was charmed by its old-fashioned storytelling, which is refreshingly free of archness, self-consciousness, or Kill Bill-style wisecracks.
Everything comes back to Garner, though -- and even when the movie takes itself too seriously, thankfully she never does.
As for Garner, she remains a lovely screen presence, but it's impossible to buy her as an emotionless killing machine.
Elektra shoves Frank Miller's eponymous cold-blooded assassin into a PG-13-friendly adventure.
During a fight, a character declared "Enough! It ends now." And I thought It's about time! Now there's a sure sign of an action movie falling short of its potential.
There's a skeleton of a cool fantasy story here, but the clatter and clunk of its fleshless bones is dispiriting.
Absent an established fan base or cadre of recognizable villains, filmmakers are forced to shoehorn in superfluous back story and excessive inner turmoil.
Much like the onslaught of sword-and-sandal epics, the comic-book-adaptation boom has resulted in a decreased effectiveness of the subjects.
The curse of the new Bennifer has birthed a deformed fury that not even sexy red ninja lingerie could save
...it lacks the emotional punch. How can you mourn for someone when mourning becomes Elektra?
Garner looks great in the Elektra outfit, but that didn’t do much for the plotting and filmmaking, which is average to worse.
Elektra's muddled story and formal unsightliness aren’t filmmaking tragedies of Greek proportions, just Hollywood’s latest casualty of concept over character.
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