Elektra (2005)

Sick Product of a Sick System

It's no definitive masterpiece but it's damn close.

Excellent, Without a doubt!!

Beautiful, moving film.

I don't get all the hate for this movie, there is enough character development and plot that you care what happens to the characters, Garner is charming as always as Elektra. Plenty of story, plenty of action, likable characters, give it a shot with an open mind.

Before the most recent "Fantastic Four" movie, this was the lowest rated movie based on a Marvel comic on RottenTomatoes and it certainly shows. As someone who was disappointed by "Daredevil" I never had high hopes for this film. I guess it wasn't really offensive or anything, but it's still really bad. There's just so many dumb things in this. Elektra didn't even show up in her uniform until the last fourth of the movie! Again, "Power Rangers" did this better. The special effects with the CGI are really bad in this and the villains are just laughable.From the very get go, the story is dumb. The villain is apparently unaware that Elektra knows what it's like to die, even though he just said she came back! She ends up falling in love this one guy and there's absolutely no buildup to it at all and it's such poorly written romance. I feel bad for female comic book fans seeing as how there has yet to be a decent movie starring a female superhero. I don't have much hopes for "Wonder Woman". There are these weird scenes where she keeps hallucinating a girl changing her age or her own age or I don't know, I didn't care. *1/2

This supposed follow-up to DAREDEVIL omits one important component of that previous movie: no Ben Affleck. Instead the focus of the film falls on the rather boring, obsessive life of Elektra, Daredevil's attractive sidekick who actually died on a rooftop in that previous movie. But here she is resurrected from the dead by a blind martial arts master, fighting off various members of criminal gang The Hand who are after a young girl whose skills hold the secret to the future. In many respects, the plot resembles that of recent Jackie Chan flick THE MEDALLION, but incredibly it's even LIGHTER than in that film. Only shadowy clips go towards explaining our lead's decision to become a professional assassin, and of the bad guys, we have no idea of their past, except that an evil-looking Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa (SHOWDOWN IN LITTLE TOYKO) is leading them. Sadly, Tagawa – usually a great and sadistic villain – is relegated to sitting behind a desk in his few appearances here.ELEKTRA – for all its previews as a martial arts extravaganza – is light on action, heavy on plot less character-building. We learn a lot about a bleeding 14 year old girl (as soon as I saw her and her cringe-worthy 'bonding' with Elektra, I knew we were in trouble) but nothing very interesting. When the action comes, it takes jump-cuts and ruthless editing to the next level, resulting clumsy, messy fight sequences where you can't really see what's going on. I really expected more of Rob Bowman, who directed some atmospheric episodes of THE X-FILES a while ago.Jennifer Garner is certainly attractive as Elektra – especially in her red suit – but she has nowhere to go and nothing to do. Even the actress herself reportedly slammed the film. E.R. doctor Goran Visnjic is handsome but empty as the father figure, and disappears about halfway through the movie, whilst the kid Prout is awful. The only other noteworthy is Terence Stamp as a blind master. As a commanding master, he's good; as blind, he's totally unbelievable.The bad guys are built up with special skills – one has stone skin, another has a deadly kiss – but incredibly, they die straight away and prove no match for our heroine whatsoever. The special effects are remarkably good, especially in the shape of one guy's tattoos which frequently come to life, but that can't save the film. Even the promise of a full-on ninja attack come the finale is cruelly destroyed as Elektra blows them up all at the same time (why the hell do they all jump into the same room anyway). The best bit of this slow-moving, long-winded film? Early on, when a ninja breaks his own neck rather than be captured. It's a classic scene in an otherwise uninteresting and poorly-conceived effort.

Wow...When I first saw the name, I wasn't too sure about this film, at the start I was bit losing it a bit...But it has got my eyes stuck on the film wanting to finish it. I was so addicted to it, Never thought it would pull me into it so much. I was looking for this type of films with those things in the film, and I've just caught it in time and I'm so happy that I have chosen the film. However, at the end, it was a little disappointed but so happy that I've watched it and ticked another film onto my watched list! Those who are thinking of it, GO FOR IT!