Elektra (DVD)

Advantages: Good SFX, good action sequences, deeper potential
Disadvantages: Too shallow, too simple, too half-hearted.

...Elektra dies at the end of Daredevil. Sorry for spoiling that, but it's something you'll need to know for this film. However, death presents few problems in the Marvel Universe, and Terence Stamp's blind sensei resurrects the basque-wearing beauty for the good of mankind. We learn that she isn't just a kick-ass assassin dressed like an Anne Summers mannequin, oh no: Elektra holds the balance between good and evil in the palm of her hand. As expected, Jennifer Garner gives a disappointing performance, switching from cold-blooded killer to gooey romantic at the first sign of ER's Goran Visnjic. Terence Stamp, as Obi Wan to Elektra's petulant heroine, is similarly trite: a masterful underperformance of wise one-liners and nothing special. Instead, the film's emphasis seems to have been given to impressive special effects and some... Read review

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Advantages: Worthwhile watching. Only 80 minutes of actual film.
Disadvantages: Supernatural Element.

... Elektra Director: Rob Bowman Release Date: 2005 Runtime: 97 mins Approx Certificate: 12. The Plot. After her 'death' in Daredevi, Elektra Natchios (Jennifer Garner), is revived by a blind man called Stick. She spends a while training with them, but is kicked out of the dojo, due to a reason unknown to her. She becomes a proffesional assassin and kills people for money. And is sent away on business to kill some, at the time unkown, targets. She goes to enter the place she is staying, and sees some shadows moving about. Who she finds is a girl called Amy (Kirsten Prout) who is her new neighbour. After a lecture about breaking into people homes, Elektra meets the girls father, Mark Miller (Goran Visnjic) and is invited by the daughter to go to their house for Christmas dinner. When the identity of her... Read review

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Advantages: Action packed great special effects
Disadvantages: Story needs work

...Elektra is a mystical assasin who gets paid alot of money to assasinate people,her legend is famous among many people and is generally feared.A new assignment takes her out to a beautiful lake where she is shocked to find her new target is a little girl and her farther,unable to complete the mission elektra goes on the run with the family who are up againt a mystical clan set on killing the girl,with her new mission to protect the child elecktra uncovers secrets to the tradgedy of her past. This film didnt get a great press and i belive in some way it follows on from daredevil which i didnt enjoy as much as this one,i actually enjoyed this film as i thought the special effects where really good quite like mortal combat.Its a heart warming story with a lot of action in it and it keeps your intrest througout the film,i would recomend... Read review

Ciao members have rated this review on average somewhat helpful