Elektra (2005)

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It is interesting even when nothing much happens, which is for most of its 3-hour running time. Read full review

First of all, the music was nice. The film started more like thrillers, horror movies. The first minute was beautiful. Unlike other hero characters, it is also interesting that they do not start as a loser. But the film is painful. The two days I had been aware, he had put his life in jeopardy for some, and he had a love on the third day.Apart from the absurdities and irrationality, the movie could be watched and withdrawn.I think the enemy characters are nice. Elektra was not a very strong character. But the results did not surprise him. It might be nicer if it surprises me. Elektra, one of my favorite heroes since childhood, did not surprise me. She was not very much a girl.

ElektraElektra lacks every ingredient that a comic-book movie contains or even a movie for that matter, as it is flat out exhausting from the top.

For some ungodly reason someone decided to make a spin off movie about Elektra, the weakest aspect of the Daredevil movie. This movie is one of most cliché I have ever seen; every bad Ninja movie cliché and every bad woman led action movie cliché is here with a few more for good measure. This movie also criminally waists a great cast; Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Terence Stamp and Jason Isaacs all need to fire their agents immediately as they are all given weak throw away parts where they do nothing to improve the stories, this is especially infuriating as the actors who they got to fill all the major parts simply do not care. The queen of apathy is none other then our leading lady Jennifer Garner herself who gives a performance that puts Jennifer Lawrence and Kristen Stewart to shame. But there is one aspect of this movie that is particularly bad. One aspect that changes this movie from simply bad to awful. Fans of MST3K will be aware of a simple yet evil process called Hypno-Helio-static-stasis, this is the process by which a normal generic movie is made unbearable by making it as slow as a slug wading through a pool of honey. It was believed this process as forgotten as some point after the 1960s but is appears that the creators of Elektra are familiar with this process and used it to make this film one of most painful viewing experiences in this book. This is the first movie made in the 2000s that actually reminded me of a Coleman Francis movie. Throw in generic music, terrible animation and sub-par camera-work and you've got this unbearably generic movie that is painful to sit through but is mercifully forgettable once you've seen it.

Plot In A Paragraph: Elektra (Jennifer Garner) is brought back to life by Stick (Terence Stamp), a blind martial arts master. Stick trains Elektra in the martial art of ninjitsu, and after several years of intense training, she becomes his best student. Elektra is so skilled as an assassin that nobody can stop her from her assignment, no matter how many bodyguards with guns you have around you. Elektra goes to a small island and befriends Mark and his teenage daughter Abby before she finds out that they are her targets. Sometime you just know you are watching a bad movie 'Elektra' is one such time. I don't hate Ben Afflecks 'Daredevil' like some do, I don't love it by any stretch if the imagination, but I found it OK. I expected the same here. I was wrong. Some of it is so ludicrous I wondered whether it was originally conceived as a superhero spoof comedy.I'll admit now, I turned it off. I got 38 minutes in to it, when I realised life is too short to waste on such drivel. I have seen several better acted and scripted TV movies starring Rob Lowe and Neil Patrick Harris recently that put this movie to shame The movie seems so amateur, almost enough to pass as a substandard offering from a struggling local amateur dramatics group. Not even Terrence Stamp can save it, and he is the only reason to see this. He brings a touch of panache to his scenes, and he deserves better than this. My advice is simple. Don't waste your time, give it a miss. Avoid it like the plague. Tell your friends to pass it by. The acting is bad, bad, bad (Garner included)