Elektra Movie
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TAGLINES
She's the last thing that stands between good and evil.
Looks can kill.
She was left for dead. Now she's back with vengeance.
Born to fight. Trained to kill.
Before she can find peace she will wage war.
Jennifer Garner returns as Elektra, a lethal synthesis of grace and power with the mystical power known as Kimagure: a limited ability to see the future. She has purposefully severed all ties with the world and lives only for her next assignment. Elektra's latest job forces her to make a decision that can take her life in a whole new direction or destroy her.
| Jennifer Garner | Elektra |
| Terence Stamp | Stick |
| Goran Visnjic | Mark Miller |
| Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa | Roshi |
| Kirsten Prout | Abby Miller |
| Will Yun Lee | Kirigi |
| Natassia Malthe | Typhoid |
| Bob Sapp | Stone |
| Chris Ackerman | Tattoo |
| Edson T. Ribeiro | Kinkou |
| Colin Cunningham | McCabe |
| Hiro Kanagawa | Meizumi |
| Mark Houghton | Bauer |
| Laura Ward | Young Elektra |
| Kurt Max Runte | Nikolas Natchios |
| Rob Bowman |
5.00 out of 10 (13860 votes)
Visitor Reviews
Lost in the mediocrity of other comic movies.
posted on 28 Aug 2009I'll admit it, I avoided this film like a George Clooney flick over the past two years on two accounts. 1] It was a soft sequel to Daredevil. 2] I was unaware of the Elektra's comic book history and did not know she was actually resurrected in the comics. I originally thought they brought her back for the purpose of the film. I was also a never been a big fan of the Alias series, but found to enjoy it sometime after it got canceled. To my surprise, Elektra was not THAT bad. After many failed attempts of converting several comic in to theater blockbuster, this one is...okay. That is, if you can somehow erase Daredevil from your memory banks.Elektra takes place a few years after her death. Now resurrected, she's a hired assassin that pits herself against a terrorist/ninja organization known as the The Hand after she backs off an assignment. Amongst The Hand carries a few unique characters with some interesting powers...one which is able to conjure up beasts from the tattoos covering his body.This film is nowhere close to Daredevil and should not even be uttered in the same sentence. The plot is a bit cliché similar to the Replacement Killers with a dash of Crouching Tiger, but it is simple and interesting enough to keep you entertained. The special effects looked pretty good and were not overdone. The fight/action scenes weren't too shabby either and weren't as much cheese as you expect from a comic movie...which may have been my only real complaint. I had a tough time rating this film higher than a 6 because I just felt bored. There were too many long dialog moments in the movie and fight scenes may have been too short.After doing some more research, the film was actually pretty close to comic, which is a plus. In any case, it is worth a DVD rental if you haven't seen it yet. Fortunately with debacles like The Hulk, Daredevil and the Fantastic Four floating around, this one is slightly superior. This certainly a good movie to nuke some popcorn with.
"An excellent comic book movie"
posted on 16 Aug 2009Elektra is such a great character and Jennifer Garner really does suit this role very well. We first saw Jennifer Garner as Elektra in the Daredevil movie which didn't do well, so it was certainly worth making this spin-off about Elektra herself. In 'Daredevil' Elektra wore a black costume which was good but in this film she wears a red costume just like in the comics which I think looks a lot better. For those who don't know Elektra she is a deadly assassin, but she's much more than that. Elektra isn't an evil character if that's what you're thinking. Elektra is often hired to kill someone, but Elektra only does things here way. Elektra is defiant, has a sense of honor, is sure of herself and has a good heart so you would want her by your side if you are in trouble. This movie had brilliant cinematography and brilliant visual effects. Some of the fights scenes I though were more advanced than 'Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon'. There were also some excellent villains in this film. These powerful warriors with supernatural powers who see Elektra as a worthy opponent. If you want to know who wins you'll just have to see the film. This movie like most 'Marvel Comic' movies is quite loyal to the comics so I believe fans of the Elektra comics will love this movie. I rate it 8 out of 10.
Pretty cool movie
posted on 12 Aug 2009Jennifer Garner did a wonderful job portraying her character. The fight scenes were amazing. It was really interesting to see how the character, Elektra evolves through out the movie. Kristen's character provided slight humor to the movie. It is a typical comic book type of movie, so if one does not like comic book stories, one might not enjoy this movie. The special effects for the villains were interesting, but fake at times. People should go see it and give it a chance. If you enjoy the Batman movies, you should enjoy this movie. In my opinion, it was much better than Daredevil. When I was leaving the theater, many people were commenting on how they liked the movie. Children who are into fighting flicks will enjoy this movie as well, but be advise that there is violence in this movie.
This movie is a killer...
posted on 06 Aug 2009The Movie "Elektra" picks up where it's left off in the first film "Daredevil". This movie is exciting and i really enjoyed it! It's like you're in the movie with Elektra. You feel her pain as she remembers her past. I would watch this movie over and over and never get tired of seeing her kicking butt!! For "DareDevil' fans or just Jennifer Graner's fans this would be a great choice. Jennifer Garner acts so good in this movie. The fight scenes are incredible, as you watch this beautiful assassin fighting the bad guys. Elektra is a master in this movie. She is one of the best female heroines that i have ever seen. I would give 9/10! The only bad thing is that Ben Affleck is nowhere to be seen! I love Marvel films. "Elektra" is a killer, and i recommend it!!
a pleasant afternoon diversion
posted on 29 Jul 2009Memoirs of a Geisha was not the first movie to use the wrong Asians, but this one is even crazier as it uses non Asians (Terrence Stamp) to play roles that seem awfully Asian and of course the lead Japanese villain is played by a Korean American! Oh well, the movie is pretty and pleasant. Ms. Garner a delight and Goric Visnjic nice eye candy.Who cares that Elektra herself seems for much of the movie to be more of a Treasure than the Treasure or more powerful than Typhoid a character who claims at one point "You know, I used to be the Treasure and I don't like being replaced." Garner's Elektra is more than either so why isn't she the one to upset the balance of good and evil? Is it because she is morally ambiguous? If so her bi-morality is refreshing in contrast to the dark and lights that surround her world.
Delivers in Style with Slick characters : A/A-
posted on 27 Jul 2009The thing I really liked about this movie is that there really isn't any other movie to which I can compare it to. In an era of rip offs and copy cats, Elektra and her mystical action stands alone. This film's got a Gothic tone, a very dark look all around, and a combination of the supernatural and natural. That's right...not only does this flick deliver in style, slick characters, a nice pace, but it also gives us a human element to which most anyone should be able to relate. This spin-off was just remarkable and even better then the movie in which it originated. Although Elektra comes close and is a very good movie, X-Men 2 has the title of best comic adaptation ever.
lack of depth also kills
posted on 21 Jul 2009where to begin....., i can gripe about dozens of things about the movie- lackluster acting from garner, continuity problems , the little annoying girl, but i'll start from the core of the movie, -the ripping off of Asian culture by Hollywood execs. why do critics and the public loathe this movie? its presentation was SOULLESS. i wanted to love this movie but was betrayed by its paint by numbers production. 1. the character of ELEKTRA is hallowed ground, revered because of Frank Miller's works in Marvel. garner is not believable as Elektra. she is a fish out of water and out of her league in a martial arts movie. yes, this is a martial arts movie and she is woefully ill prepared. shes a red head ,Elekra is dark haired and not from any town USA. her fight scenes and movement throughout the movie screamed CONTRIVED. nothing seemed natural. she is no killer. every time i looked at her i thought Sex in the City meets 3 Ninjas . want to see elegant? check out HERO with Jet LI or House of Daggers. i HATE it when movies are overshadowed by its star. the whole movie suffers, too many close-ups and posing. for all you Hollywood action movie execs-see The Professional2. the plot is water thin and incoherent. i felt nothing for the father and child, nor the hand, nor Elektra, Terence Stamp added a little depth. the villains died unremarkable, typhoid mary and the tattoo were the only interesting facets in the movie. since when did ninjas need ropes and a harness? got their gear from Big 5 sporting? the movie does not mesh well at all. too many odd elements CONTRIVED to fit the bill. a little girl with a magic chain? what is that? that should of stayed on the cutting room floor, was the little girl related to garner? is that why she got face time? geez. should i blame the director? the execs? the writers? this movie is juvenile, that is the problem. when made for mature audience, it would have probably delivered, made to appease 10 year olds-different ballgame. see Sin City.i will recommend it for the casual renter, its pretty harmless, for us who know better, look elsewhere.
For those with no depth.
posted on 13 Jul 2009I have noticed in many comments, message board discussions, and of my peer group there is confusion of this film. That there is no relevance in certain actions of Elektra. However, there are many pieces in this film that have been written in for the real fans of Elektra, the ones whom collected the comics. Such as Elektra having OCD, if you look deeper with certain clues the movie gives you, you will find why she has this. If you fail to after a viewing or two, you are missing much of her emotions and past.Overall, those who are into special effects, fight scenes, suspense. This is a film worth seeing for such a viewer. An excellent work on the original score music, which I could not have found a single flaw in. Might I add, pay very close attention to the beginning. One can be easily fooled the first time around. There are only a few scenes where you have a bit of down time, waiting for the next roll of excitement. Such as the apparent kissing/love scenes. Which is the only thing I fail to see the true purpose behind it, other than perhaps loneliness as the exception.They have done an excellent way of putting Elektra's life together in a film. There are of course, sections they could have written better --which can never really be avoided with any movie that was once written down. If you have no intentions of really 'reading' what is between the lines, this is not a film you should look into seeing. As you may be left quite confused in some sections. This is a movie that did leave me feeling quite satisfied afterwords.
High expectations that don't materialize.
posted on 09 Jul 2009I really wanted to like "Elektra", I really did. I've read some of the Frank Miller graphic novels and was amazed. His writings spawned a dark unsettling world on which to unfold Elektra's tragic, brutal and remorseless story. The movie adaptation directed by Rob Bowman was nothing even remotely close to what Miller had created, even though it claimed to be inspired by the same stories he had written. This was a childish, shallow film made for the mass audience, and proudly carrying that big PG-13 sticker."Elektra" plays out much like a Japanese ninja movie in the tradition of "Ninja Scroll" or "Shinobi" with the title character battling a group of supernatural warrior-ninjas. The problem comes from the small fact that neither the action scenes are any good nor is the plot.Bowman's film follows Elektra on her path to redemption. After she refused to assassinate a girl and her father, she crosses swords (or sais if you would) with a group of assassins known as The Hand who aim to finish the job she didn't complete and kill her as well. Naturally Elektra helps the family with the usual ongoings commencing afterwards. Though it does have it's share of plot twists and turns, the film's storyline is not anything mind-blowingly original. It's been done before and I must say, it's been done much much better. Characters as if trying to perfectly imitate a comic book's illustrations are two dimensional. There is no sense of detail in them. The villains specifically are just cannon fodder for our heroine to defeat in rather unimpressive ways. The Elektra in Miller's books was described as a very cold, cunning and determined individual, here this is the exact opposite. Neither is she cold (helps the family), nor cunning (is out-tricked by the evil ninjas several times) nor even determined (tries to leave the family as soon as she can). Even in the opening scene Garner's performance stands unconvincing compared to the true nature of her character.That PG-13 must have really hurt, not only is the plot bright and cheerful but so is the whole look of the film. Whereas 2002's "Daredevil" retained some visual similarities with the comic it's based upon, "Elektra" which acts like something of a sequel simply cries out - made for kids only. There is nothing that deserves to be mentioned about the cinematography. It's mediocrity is just disappointing. The fight choreography is as unimaginative as every other Hollywood action movie.I won't, I refuse wasting anymore time on this hopelessly shallow piece of work. I close my review mentioning the only similarity between what Miller made and what Bowman made. Both made tragedies. While Miller told his story like a Greek tragedy, Bowman made a tragically weak movie that does not deserve to be called "Elektra".
Really good movie, weak ending
posted on 07 Jul 2009**spoilers - if you have never seen an action movie before** I loved this movie until the end. I felt Jennifer Garner's acting was great, except for the few romantic moments. I especially liked the work-out montage - it doesn't seem very often that the practical side of being a superhero is shown in a movie. I really liked the teenager. I think her acting was great for the role. I enjoyed all the fight scenes, but on almost all of them it seemed like something could have been just a little bit better. I was kind of disappointed that I was more attracted to the supervillian than the love interest (but then maybe that says more about me than the movie). About the end: I felt like they really cheesed-out. I didn't feel like any of the loose-ends they had up to that point needed to be tied up. They obviously wanted to leave it open for a sequel, but they really could have been more subtle - really, everybody knows that if the movie made any money, they'll make a sequel. I felt like it was much better than Daredevil, a little better than the Punisher (which I liked), but no where near as good as the X-Men movies.
Actually not that bad!
posted on 25 Jun 2009I didn't think this movie was that bad! I can't believe it got 4.8/10 on the IMDb voting pole. Anyway, as long as you are not expecting any thing too grand and fancy in comparison to, say, better comic book adapted films like X-men or Spiderman, then you'll be OK. You'll find this 'Elektra' film fairly entertaining; easy to wacth to pass the time.Jennifer Garner plays Elektra well and she is a really good martial artist due to her training from Alias (2001). I did think the romance was just too predictable and really not needed. The producers should have instead included the deleted scene of Dare devil's appearance. Anyway give it a try, the film definitely hits the average mark. I give it a 5/10.
Not a total waste of time
posted on 23 Jun 2009Yes Jennifer Garnier is gorgeous and after watching her in 13 going on 30 i thought I might as well give this a try. I am a Marvel fan but have found the last 2 offerings from them not to be that hot and this one certainly follows suit. Unless you actually read the comics I found the storyline a bit difficult to understand as they failed to go into any depths as to why she was who she was and what the HAND actually are. Anyway all in all there were some cool fight scenes (not enough) and she plays the part pretty well. I would like to see her do some more adult stuff like (Long kiss goodnight) sort of films but if you have nothing else to watch its worth the entrance fee but apart from that don't expect the earth to move
Better than daredevil
posted on 21 Jun 2009Jennifer Garner does a good job in this film, so far its probably the best performance that I've seen from her other than from Alias. The story line is good but short and there isn't a lot of character development. The special affects are pretty good and fight scenes well choreographed although the fights seem too easily won. The villains are pretty cool, Tattoo had to be my favorite. Kirsten Prout does a good job in her role as well. I would have liked see more of Terence Stamp, especially in a good gnarly fight scene. The movie all-around is pretty good and entertaining. I felt it was a good adaptation from the comic. There are some deleted scenes on the DVD that leads me to believe there will be a sequel for Daredevil which I hope is better than the original.
Nothing happening here...
posted on 17 Jun 2009Elektra, or, as I know her, "that chick from Daredevil who turned up in Wolverine's solo book once or twice". So, 'Daredevil' wasn't THAT bad. It served me well as mild entertainment once or twice. I figured that 'Elektra' might also pass as amusing - after all, it promised to be about ninjas, and I do love a good ninja movie.After carking it in 'Daredevil', Elektra (Jennifer Garner) is brought back by her master Stick (Terence Stamp). She becomes an assassin for hire, but while on an assignment, she becomes fond of her supposed targets Mark Miller (Goran Visnjic) and his thirteen year old daughter Abby (Kirsten Prout), and decides to protect from the Hand, a shadowy underworld organization of ninjas with freaky powers. Led by Kirigi (Will Yun Lee), a small group of the Hand's elite set out to finish Elektra's job and Elektra too.Woah, so I never thought a movie all about good ninjas and bad ninjas involved in some sort of ninja war could be so boring. 'Elektra' turned out to be a character-driven ninja movie, instead of a ninja-driven ninja movie. I don't mind a non-action movie every so often, but 'Elektra' was presented a full on action movie, and that was all I wanted in the middle of doing university assignments and studying for tests. Basically, it followed the same style as 'Hulk', but was less exciting.Jennifer Garner spends long periods of the film standing around looking bored, and generally giving out a performance one might usually expect from someone like Steven Seagal. Her Elektra was much more interesting in 'Daredevil' than in 'Elektra'. Despite an entire film about her, you really don't learn anything about the character: At one point Abby mentions that Elektra has OCD, but it just seems pointless and is never referred to again. The other characters get shafted too: Elektra's apparent love interest makes very little impact on the movie, and all we know about the villains is that they are ninjas with freaky powers. No explanation, no origin, nothing.There is barely enough action in 'Elektra' to even qualify as an action. Much of the time wasted on following the character's around as they do nothing could have been used to beef up 'Elektra' as an action film. As it stands, they were pretty ordinary and almost nowhere to be seen. I mean, a few more extended fight scenes could have made 'Elektra' amusing at least.'Elektra' isn't as terrible as Marvel's 'Nick Fury' movie, but it doesn't come close to some of Marvel's more awesome movies, like 'The Punisher'. At best, 'Elektra' is barely average: very little happens - 4/10
Simply terrible - worse than "Daredevil".
posted on 17 Jun 2009Elektra (a still miscast Jennifer Garner) comes back to life, resurrected by General Zod- I mean, Terrence Stamp, in the role of Stick, who is actually the mentor of Daredevil/Matt Murdock in the comic books, trains Elektra a little more in the art of assassination, then sends her away as part of some plot to get their hands on a girl who's a chosen one of some sort. And there are a bunch of magic wielding ninjas thrown into the mix as well.True, "Daredevil" wasn't particularly good, but even in its worst moments it wasn't nearly as bad as this piece of crap. I don't know why everyone keeps talking about how great Jennifer Garner is in this movie - she's absolutely terrible. Not only was she one of the worst parts of the Daredevil film, she is by far the worst thing about this Elektra spin-off. Tall and lean she may be, but there's still an essence of all American girl next door about her (despite her somewhat masculine face, complete with hollow cheeks and square jawline), even though the comic book Elektra was a dark, sensual, exotic, foreign beauty. Miss Garner is about exotic as a chocolate chip cookie. Making things worse is that Jennifer Garner has no intensity or authority whatsoever. She's not imposing, she's not commanding, she's just a whole lot of nothing. She doesn't show any hint of a personality; it looks like she's been studying acting from the Star Wars prequels. Her relationship with the chosen girl, Abby, is just laughable, as is her "romance" with the girl's father.After that, the film's plot is just so poorly written and conceived it's amazing it ever got green lit, with unimpressive villains and boring characters all around. It's harder and harder to figure out what's going on in the heads of studio execs and directors these days.Jason Isaacs has a cameo in the opening as some random guy Elektra kills, and he delivers his lines so poorly that you'd swear he was being dubbed by someone else.Do yourselves a favor and read the comics instead.
Huh?
posted on 07 Jun 2009This is absurd - aside from the fellow Australian who has reviewed this flick, I can't help but think that everyone else who has submitted a review so far was some way involved in the production of Elektra, considering how generous they were with their praise.Admittedly I'm not really a fan of comic-book-to-movie conversions so I didn't go in with many expectations, yet still I found Elektra to be incredibly underwhelming. The thing that irked me the most was the fact that there was SO MUCH in this film which went by unexplained, that left you thinking "huh, what relevance does that have to the plot?" or "so how did that aspect of the character come about?" I can only hope that these are things which are perhaps explained somewhat in Daredevil, which I have no intention of seeing.Furthermore, the behaviour of the characters in this film appear to do an about-face at random moments to suit the storyline, and don't even get me started about the utterly pointless romantic sub-plot. I'm also (still) scratching my head over the fate of Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa's character, which seems to have gone by unexplained.If I can give kudos to this movie for anything it would have to be the fantastic locations in which it was shot, but otherwise I gained little enjoyment from Elektra. I know we're supposed to suspend our disbelief for fantasy/action films, but almost everything in this film was so improbable or confusing (even by action film standards) that it simply frustrated me.Well, hell, at least Jennifer Garner looks damn good.
Do slay what is worth
posted on 07 Jun 2009I do not read comics and know nothing about them. But when possible, I try to watch action fantasies starring women as a fighter or worrier as well as men. That's why I picked this flick at the cinema.Surprisingly, there are a few lines and words spoken in Japanese, that was a bit "treat", because action movies usually use very limited scripts, therefore they should be selective to express meanings to the images.This film would have given birth to, not one, but two beautiful assassins if only their enemy was analyzed deeper and described better. The villain in the film was as vain and null as sugarless cotton candy topped with strange artificial colorings. One enemy, Typhoid, did slightly better in the concept where a woman can bring death to a life via her charm, but she didn't look playing a role of any importance; she was there like a meaningless decoration. If girl heroes in a fantasy must fight and kill, I'd wish they slay what is worth; I would hope they battle and butcher a "monster", not a bunch of sword opera dancers.With the use of foreign vocabulary, one could imagine such tangible enemies found in Asia and other parts of the world as human trafficking, child slavery, sex trade, power thirsty empresses or vicious tyrants. But this heroin was driven to fight by her fearsome past so her enemy might be just a smoky illusion. Over all the film was a stylish martial ballet, no less, alas! no more.
Such a waste of potential
posted on 05 Jun 2009You know, this could have been amazing. Ninjas, Marvel characters, and a story that could have been grand. This could have been downright epic. Had it been handled right. Directed by Rob Bowman, the man who brought us Reign of Fire, this takes a much more supernatural route than its parent film, Daredevil, for better or for worse. I must admit that I don't know much about Elektra of the comics... so I can't say for sure whether or not all the magic seen in this film is close to the source. They got the costume more or less right, and had they gone further towards the comics, the film might have garnered(pun intended) (even more) embarrassed reactions from its viewers. And she is actually an assassin in the film, which is accurate. I'm not sure about the efforts made to make the character still be likable to the audience. She is joined by Stick and The Hand... now, I don't know much about the former(not sure I've read more than one comic that he appeared in), but the latter could so easily have provided a magnificent story, that it's almost a travesty what they did put on the screen. Also with her is someone named McCabe, who wins us over early by inquiring about the title character's sex life, in a manner that leaves the viewer wondering if he knows the meaning of the word subtlety(although, to be fair, it may be the people behind the film itself who do not). The Millers are hardly better. Mark wouldn't be awful if he had just a hint of personality. Abby... frankly, it may be possible to scientifically prove that she is annoying. Granted, she isn't the most irritating that she could be, and there are times where she isn't, where she is tolerable, but being that she's one of the characters we're supposed to care the most about, she could have used work. It doesn't help that the kid isn't that great an actress. The production design isn't that memorable. I'm not sure the film holds even a single truly great image. The camera-work varies, but more often than not, it obscures the action, and it's in cahoots with the editing in this. Some parts are overly stylized. Many chances of actual action are passed up for showing us visual effects and magic instead. I'm afraid I can't claim that I'd rather see a man in a suit pull a rabbit, cute though it may be, out of his hat, than a skilled martial artist dish out some well-administered punches and kicks. The fighting is a mixed bag, but some of it is fairly good. Why there is so reasonably little of it(and hardly any mêlée weapons), in a film about *ninjas* is a rather appropriate question. Dialog, writing, acting, none of it is particularly mesmerizing. The film seems to present some of its plot as twists, in spite of much of it having been revealed in the trailer, and what little there was left, the viewer could easily piece together on their own. Magical powers seem inconsistent, and the film doesn't possess much of an ability to keep the viewer excited or engaged. There's too little of a sense of danger. I recommend this to fans of fantasy, and those who simply *must* watch everything that has to do with comic books(believe me, I don't blame you, it is difficult to find anything good). Those who like the comics, martial arts, and/or Daredevil the film should maybe think twice, at least before spending much money or energy to watch this. 5/10
How the movie may have been pitched.....
posted on 05 Jun 2009Okay, okay, okay, so 'Daredevil' didn't do as well as we thought. But what did everybody love in that movie? They loved Elektra. So I'm thinking "Hey, why don't we make a movie about her?". Yeah, I know she died in the other one but we'll fix that. And we want her to be supercool so we'll make her a cold-blooded assassin. Well no, no, not totally cold-blooded, she'll have these vague inner turmoils. We can do a lot of those shots on her staring straight ahead emotionlessly that were so popular in 'Alias'. With soaring music. What's that? Well I know she can't really act but she's gorgeous so we'll just give her some tight outfits. What? Okay, we'll put her in some fashionable business-wear as well ---- in scenes where she counsels a young girl who's kind of her protégé. Well she won't know it but we'll make sure it's obvious to the audience real early. And we'll have to have some supercool villains - just pick a handful from the comic. And one should be a hot chick. Oh, there's one that can sap life by kissing? Perfect, we'll have her kiss Elektra for a full five seconds so the teenage boys can get their ya-yas. But it won't kill her, she'll stop early. And we can do a real cool fight scene in a room full of flying sheets like they did in that artsy movie. But again she'll escape when the bad guy just stops using an attack even though it's working extremely well. We can do lots of character development - what? well we won't make it real talky - we can just have her mope around a lot. How will she kill the bad guys? Oh, we'll figure that out later as there will not be a lot of time left for that anyway. And we'll get one of those famous serious British actors to play some kind of mentor. And the girl can have a hot father that Elektra falls for. We'll just get one of those guys from another network seriodrama. If this works, we can get a sequel where she meets up with the Charmed Ones and their studs for a total CGI fest.
Good as a film, but thinking the comic book, well...
posted on 30 Aug 2009If Elektra was a brand new character, and firstly introduced in this movie, that movie would take at least a 7, I guess. But this movie lacks a lot of storyline compared to the comic book and the fans are very much disappointed.For me, the worst part of these lacks is in Typhoid Mary character. Still, I think she is the best character of this movie is still her; but compared to the original Typhoid Mary, this character is rubbish. The original Typhoid Mary does not look suffered all the time. Contrary, we can see her smiling cunningly and evil. And the original one is one of the best villains comic books had ever seen. In this movie, she is just a bad girl, that's all. A lame character of a lame movie.The original Elektra is not a sad character. In this movie, Elektra's usual mood is sad. Elektra is a skilled, professional assassin. So, she must not be always sad. It is a very big disappointment.The most exciting and active parts are the last scenes and ninja scenes, and they are crap. And the green dust also looks so lame.But I admit, it had very good scenes. Most of all were the Typhoid Mary scenes. Meeting, the kissing, the snakes, the jealousy and all. The movie Typhoid is a very entertaining character, but of course not as good as the original.I give it a six, and I am being generous, cause ignoring the comic book, it is an entertaining film, but including comic book, this movie cannot get near the fantastic comic series.