Elektra Luxx (2011)

Excellent, Without a doubt!!

Don't listen to the negative reviews

This movie was so-so. It had it's moments, but wasn't the greatest.

Unshakable, witty and deeply felt, the film will be paying emotional dividends for a long, long time.

A sequel to Women in Trouble, this movie has just as much talk and even less action. If you loved the first film and thought Carla Gugino was the best thing in it, you will revel in this motion picture. If it wore you out with non-stop blather and thought Gugino was just one among many other members of the cast, well…you're probably not going to be watching Elektra Luxx in the first place. If you're unfamiliar with either movie, this is what you need to know.Aside from a couple of butt shots, there is no real nudity in Elektra Luxx. There is a lot of dialog, and I mean A LOT, but the characters do very little. This is more like a radio drama than a film or even a stage play. Some of the dialog is quite clever and entertaining. Some of it isn't nearly as clever or entertaining as writer/director Sebastain Gutierrez believes. The sheer tonnage of words spoken here without accompanying plot will likely wear on you over time, something which only enhances the lackluster ending of this thing. There's a dream sequence which demonstrates that Gugino should avoid any roles that require singing and dancing and that Gutierrez has no future in music videos. And this movie continues to employ Gutierrez' graphic but rather sanitized presentation of sexual discussion. These characters say a lot of supposedly provocative things. With the juiceless way they say them, however, they might as well be talking about the weather or comparing lawn fertilizer.This story is again about the several intersecting lives, though fewer in number and importance than Women in Trouble. Primarily, it's about ex-porn star Elektra Luxx (Carla Gugino). She's pregnant with her dead, rock star boyfriend's baby and teaching a class on "How to act like a porn star in bed" at the local community center. She gets caught up in the personal drama of Cora (Marly Shelton), the stewardess who was having sex with Luxx' boyfriend on a plane when he died. There's also a private eye (Timothy Olyphant), a best selling author (Kathleen Quinlan) and a naked, jealous neighbor (Vincent Kartheiser) who orbit around Luxx. There are also more disconnected plot lines about a Latino sex blogger (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) and about two sex workers from the first movie (Adrianne Palicki and Emmanuelle Chriqui) taking a vacation together and resolving the relationship cliffhanger Gutierrez left them at in Women in Trouble.Look, the acting here is enjoyable and the direction, while not terribly involving, is perfectly acceptable. The problem is that this film goes on and on and on with the same thing over and over and over. If you took the best scenes here and inserted them into a story where stuff actually happens in between, Elektra Luxx would have been pretty good. As it is, watching this is like taking a long car ride with someone who won't stop talking. No matter how intelligent and interesting they are at the beginning, after a certain point you just want them to shut the hell up.This is in no way a poorly made film, though the plot is pretty sketchy. It is a movie that completely reasonable people will find intolerable. Only those who were captivated by Gugino in Women in Trouble should bother with it.

I had the unfortunate displeasure of viewing this movie tonight, and my shock and awe at how bad it is cannot really be put into words. I got pulled in by the cover, shame on me. Gugino is a feast for the eyes for sure, and seeing Chriqui make out with another chick was a nice surprise, but those two niceities cant save this deplorable piece of trash. As with an earlier reviewer, I rarely give a movie one star, as I can usually find SOMETHING redeeming about the experience: that was not the case here. It gives off the stink of one of those late night soft-core skin flicks, but without the skin! What the hell was Gordon-Levitt thinking reprising this role? He is lucky he didn't screw up his chances landing the role in Inception. I wasn't even aware this was a sequel until I read some of the other reviews. Anyway, there is nothing else to say, this is pure garbage. I should receive some type of reward for making it all the way through...

I always promised myself never to give a 1 star rating on a movie review because there is always a part where you can give credit for.. boy I was horribly wrong about that. I wasn't sure if i should check the "contains spoilers" boy or not, fact is there is nothing to spoil because nothing is making sense or is connected to something what REAL writers would call a storyline.Now after this introduction you might expect that they packed the movie with a ton of nude scenes or flat jokes like in American Pie part 23, unfortunately there wasn't even that.It is a pointless mini journey of a former porn actress stumbling from one random conversation into another, i was sitting put and thought in the end it they take all strings together and tie a knot. Oh boy i was wrong again. Apparently or better unfortunately this was a sequel, they must have sent Tony Soprano holding a gun at the producers head to make 2 movies out of nothing. The worst part is how the movie was advertised as a comedy when it turns out to be a wannabe drama, in fact it is neither of that and it is crowned with horrible acting. It has at least 5 actors i really enjoyed before, I assume they woke up next to a horse head and the contract for this "movie" I wish i could sue people for stealing my time, but after learning that the movie grossed only 10,000 USD this is a hopeless case since the makers of this "movie" must be flat broke now.The only reason why i got the Blu-Ray was some of the reviews here which had 9 and 8 stars and the "movie" was called brilliant. Must be a plug review by the executives who released this "movie" or people watching the movie one handed and when they didn't find any nudity they thought it was intelligent or something like that, don't blame them the blood was elsewhere.Hands down the worst "movie" I have ever seen in my life and I never thought that could be possible after seeing Titanic2.Do not get fooled by the trailers or make up your own ideas based on the suggested storyline, it is not what it pretends to be.

I would bet that Sebastian Gutierrez, the writer and director of "Elektra Luxx" is a big fan of the acclaimed Spanish director Pedro Almodovar. "Elektra Luxx" is kind of like an American version of a Almodvar film. It is full of funny, quirky and sexy characters.I don't typically like most mainstream comedies but I really liked this film so that might say more about me than it does about this film. I was laughing out loud throughout the whole thing. The humor doesn't seemed forced like mainstream comedy. It is the characters that make it funny.There is not much of a plot but I enjoyed the time I spent with these characters. My only complaint is that I had to watch it on DVD because the BlueRay is not available yet. Hopefully it comes out soon.Make sure to watch to the ends of the credits. There is a trailer for the final Elekta Luxx film at the end that you will not want to miss."Elektra Luxx" is not a movie for everyone. In fact, it is not a movie for most people. If you like eclectic, quirky, sexy films, you should give it a try. You might be pleasantly surprised.