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| Director
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Rob Bowman |
| Starring
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Jennifer Garner, Goran Visnjic,
Will Yun Lee
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| The plot of
Elektra |
Elektra
(Garner) is a warrior gifted and cursed with kimagure,
a limited ability to see the future. Saved from
a near-death experience by a ninja collective
known as The Order of the Hand, she is dispatched
by their leader, Kirigi (Yun Lee), on a mission
to kill the widower Mark Miller (Visnjic). But
even her special power can't help her predict
what will happen on the job. |
| Elektra Movie
Review |
Reviewed by
Andrew L. Urban :
The Hand is a band of evil guys, almost all Asian, and
the key team comprises a man called Rock who is big
and solid as a rock; a man called Tattoo (Chris Ackerman)
whose bodily animal tattoos morph into their live versions
on demand; a woman called Typhoid (Natassia Malthe)
whose touch kills plants and gives humans instant disease.
Any Hand gang member who is killed evaporates in a pyrotechnic
blaze. So this is what Elektra is up against, and we
haven’t got to Kirigi (Will Yun Lee) who can move
floating sheets around a room like you wouldn’t
believe. Excuse the sarcasm here, you’ll have
to see the film to get this reference, triggered by
part of the final showdown between Elektra and Kirigi,
in which they are fighting in Elektra’s abandoned
ancestral home, where all the furniture has been covered
with white sheets. This is where it all began, with
her mother’s murder – by Kirigi, who reveals
it to her with sadistic pleasure as he tries to kill
her between the sheets (as it were).
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Review By 7mpictures
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My apologies to all the Jennifer Garner fans
out there, but she’s really just a one-note actress.
She’s like Julia Roberts, who soars when she plays
her roles in “Pretty Woman” and “Erin
Brockovich.” Jennifer Garner is great as Sydney
Bristow in “Alias.” Not so great in quirky
romantic comedies like “13 Going on 30”
or as a vixen in “Catch Me If You Can.”
Now, “Daredevil” was such a weak superhero
movie, it wasn’t hard to beat it. In fact, I’ll
go on the record right now and say that “Elektra”
is better than “Daredevil” and also better
than the last superheroine movie “Catwoman.”
But if you’ve seen either of those films, you’ll
know that Chewbacca burping for two hours would be better.
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Reviewed by Joshua Tyler :
Elektra is a superhero action movie without much action
in it. I’m not even sure it’s about Elektra.
I get what they were going for here. Director Rob Bowman
is trying to take the comic book movie genre somewhere
a little bit new. He’s trying for a primarily
drama motivated film punctuated by little bits of action.
He fails. Instead, Elektra is a film for people who
might like watching scene after scene of Jennifer Garner
sleeping. After awhile, I started to think that it was
a good suggestion, and nearly nodded off myself. The
much touted Miss Garner reprises the role she originated
in Daredevil, this time with her own completely separate
spin-off in Elektra. She’s dropped the Natchios
from her name, and been resurrected from the dead. Other
than a few millisecond flashback scenes in which the
movie alludes to her resurrection, any connection between
the mediocre Daredevil film and this one is absent.
I guess they wanted to stay away from the character’s
dubious cinematic roots, but it is Daredevil that ought
to be ashamed of any association.
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