Elektra... Red Bustier? At least Daredevil had an excuse.... he was blind.
Added 11/1/2009
Elektra: 4 out of 10: When people said Jennifer Garner, as Elektra, was the best thing in the movie Daredevil. I'm pretty sure they were mostly damning with faint praise. After all Jennifer, while certainly an attractive female, came across as a sorority pledge playing dress-up on S and M rush night.
In Elektra she looks even more ridiculous. There have been plenty of great female assassins over the years from the camp of a Bond villain, to the seductiveness of Linda Fiorentino, even the girl next-door deadliness of Bridget Fonda in Point of No Return. Female assassins are a wonderful staple of filmdom, seductive yet deadly. Garner is neither. "She looks like she is thinking of puppies," claimed one reviewer I read and I concur. If the Smurfs were X-rated ninja's, then Garner would still be miscast in Smurfette: Deadly Blue.
Her costumes certainly don't help her cause. You almost have the urge to tell her to put some clothes on and bright red Victoria Secret lingerie just doesn't scream stealth or deadly. Lord knows the rest of this mess doesn't help Garner either.
While Terrance Stamp can do no wrong every else seems either miscast or afraid of stealing Garner's thunder. Add on poor special effects, villains that turn into family friendly yellow smoke when killed, ninjas that crash through windows like Army rangers, gas stoves that explode like nuclear weapons, laundry fu, Japanese villains out of a World War 2 propaganda film and my personal favorite the warmest Christmas in Canadian history.
The movie clearly takes place in the northwest United States or Vancouver. The days are long, everyone is in short sleeves, and Garner takes recreational swims in the lake. (Canadian Lakes are notoriously cold even in August mind you) So when a cherub faced character asks Garner over for Christmas dinner Elektra isn't the only one surprised.
Garner is sexy but when it's time to kill she should either get dressed or let the grown-ups take care of things.
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Climax problems
Added 10/6/2009
Pretty good atmosphere, and I like Jennifer Garner, so I liked it - to a point. Unfortunately, the point I stopped liking it was the climax. Since I don't want to be a spoiler, I won't say more.
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Mediocre TV Movie
Added 9/14/2009
Finally got to see this and I can say it was definitely NOT worth the wait.
This movie has the production values of a bad pilot and the story is about as dull an uninteresting as that same dull pilot. I first encountered the character in the Daredevil comics back in the day and this version of Elektra bears no resemblance to this character.
Shoveling in the relationshippy/mother-daughter angle into what is supposed to be an action movie about a ruthless assassin turns Elektra into a "kick ass chick flick". Well, I've nothing again kick ass female characters. I enjoyed the original issues of Daredevil with Elektra, heck, I even enjoy Xena, but this movie is so poorly made that everything about it just bores one to death. It's by the numbers movie making and hits all of the cliches dead on: grimacing Asian assassins, the stoic blind teacher, the tortured female hero torn by love and family and a desire to "settle down". Yawn.
It's exactly this type of mundane super hero movie that WATCHMEN was created to counter.
Avoid this one like the plague. Jennifer Garner deserved better than being shoved into this clunker. Don't waste your time on Elektra.
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Good story,,,right amount of action
Added 9/10/2009
I guess most people who seemed this movie would rate it low because there was not enough action. However, Electra was not a heroine that did not have any super-powers, but skill, speed, patient, and thought. All of which came through the movie the movie. True there was some CG action in the movie but just enough to make this movie good for what it is...all about the fights and J. Garner! If you're a big fan fan of Garner, then you will love this movie. Remember Alias?
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5 Stars for Jennifer Garner, cinematography
Added 6/18/2009
Otherwise the plot line and direction sucked. Still, much better than average film of this genre.
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Elektra... Red Bustier? At least Daredevil had an excuse.... he was blind.
Added 11/1/2009
Elektra: 4 out of 10: When people said Jennifer Garner, as Elektra, was the best thing in the movie Daredevil. I'm pretty sure they were mostly damning with faint praise. After all Jennifer, while certainly an attractive female, came across as a sorority pledge playing dress-up on S and M rush night.
In Elektra she looks even more ridiculous. There have been plenty of great female assassins over the years from the camp of a Bond villain, to the seductiveness of Linda Fiorentino, even the girl next-door deadliness of Bridget Fonda in Point of No Return. Female assassins are a wonderful staple of filmdom, seductive yet deadly. Garner is neither. "She looks like she is thinking of puppies," claimed one reviewer I read and I concur. If the Smurfs were X-rated ninja's, then Garner would still be miscast in Smurfette: Deadly Blue.
Her costumes certainly don't help her cause. You almost have the urge to tell her to put some clothes on and bright red Victoria Secret lingerie just doesn't scream stealth or deadly. Lord knows the rest of this mess doesn't help Garner either.
While Terrance Stamp can do no wrong every else seems either miscast or afraid of stealing Garner's thunder. Add on poor special effects, villains that turn into family friendly yellow smoke when killed, ninjas that crash through windows like Army rangers, gas stoves that explode like nuclear weapons, laundry fu, Japanese villains out of a World War 2 propaganda film and my personal favorite the warmest Christmas in Canadian history.
The movie clearly takes place in the northwest United States or Vancouver. The days are long, everyone is in short sleeves, and Garner takes recreational swims in the lake. (Canadian Lakes are notoriously cold even in August mind you) So when a cherub faced character asks Garner over for Christmas dinner Elektra isn't the only one surprised.
Garner is sexy but when it's time to kill she should either get dressed or let the grown-ups take care of things.
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Climax problems
Added 10/6/2009
Pretty good atmosphere, and I like Jennifer Garner, so I liked it - to a point. Unfortunately, the point I stopped liking it was the climax. Since I don't want to be a spoiler, I won't say more.
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Mediocre TV Movie
Added 9/14/2009
Finally got to see this and I can say it was definitely NOT worth the wait.
This movie has the production values of a bad pilot and the story is about as dull an uninteresting as that same dull pilot. I first encountered the character in the Daredevil comics back in the day and this version of Elektra bears no resemblance to this character.
Shoveling in the relationshippy/mother-daughter angle into what is supposed to be an action movie about a ruthless assassin turns Elektra into a "kick ass chick flick". Well, I've nothing again kick ass female characters. I enjoyed the original issues of Daredevil with Elektra, heck, I even enjoy Xena, but this movie is so poorly made that everything about it just bores one to death. It's by the numbers movie making and hits all of the cliches dead on: grimacing Asian assassins, the stoic blind teacher, the tortured female hero torn by love and family and a desire to "settle down". Yawn.
It's exactly this type of mundane super hero movie that WATCHMEN was created to counter.
Avoid this one like the plague. Jennifer Garner deserved better than being shoved into this clunker. Don't waste your time on Elektra.
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