Elektra - The Director's Cut (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)
While 2003's Daredevil was a conventional superhero movie, the 2005 spinoff, Elektra, is more of a wuxia-styled martial arts/fantasy flick. Elektra (Jennifer Garner) has returned to her life as a hired assassin, but she balks at an assignment to kill a single father (Goran Visnjic, ER) and his teenage daughter (Kirsten Prout). That makes her the target of the Hand, an organization of murderous ninjas, scheming corporate types, and a band of stylish supervillains seeking to eliminate Elektra and tip the balance of power in the ongoing battle of good vs. evil. As the star of Alias, Garner has proven that she can kick butt with the best of them, and some of the visual effects are impressive, but the action sequences tend to be anticlimactic, and there's not much to the story. Fans will notice numerous references to Frank Miller's comic books, but there's very little resemblance to Miller's cold-blooded killer (Elektra with an agent? Elektra referring to herself as a "soccer mom"?). Is Elektra better than Daredevil? Not really, even with the distinct advantage of having all Garner and no Ben Affleck. That could be the spinoff's greatest disappointment: after Spider-Man 2 raised the bar for comic-book movies, Elektra lowered it back to Daredevil's level. Directed by Rob Bowman (the X-Files movie), and featuring Terence Stamp as the mysterious mentor Stick, Will Yun Lee (Die Another Day) as the chief villain, and NFL-player-turned-mixed-martial-arts-champion Bob Sapp as the immovable Stone. --David Horiuchi
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Recent Reviews
- 3/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Nov-03-2008
- Taking a Dare
Jennifer Garner reprises a major character in the Daredevil movie for this comic book-styled romp in the martial arts. Elektra (Garner) is a hired assassin who refuses to go forward with an assigned hit, which doesn't sit well with an...
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- 4/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Oct-24-2008
- I liked it!
Comic book fans, check this one out, Jennifer Garner fans, check this one out, you'll appreciate a few scenes that show off her physique in the super-hero costume. the storyline on this one was solid and had good development. I heard...
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- 4/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Sep-27-2008
- A Sexy Superhero!!!
The beautiful Jennifer Garner is back as Elektra! After being reborn from DareDevil, Elektra assassinates the bad guys. During Christmas time, Elektra moves to a cottage and meets Mark Miller and his 13-year old girl, Abby. She find out...
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- 2/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Jun-08-2008
- Preposterous Action Scenes
I like Garner and think she's an appealing actress, and I liked her in Daredevil, but in this movie the action scenes are so weak and unbelievable. She is supposed to be a great fighter, but we hardly see anything, it's just implied that...
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Selected Reviews
- 4/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Oct-24-2008
- I liked it!
Comic book fans, check this one out, Jennifer Garner fans, check this one out, you'll appreciate a few scenes that show off her physique in the super-hero costume. the storyline on this one was solid and had good development. I heard...
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- 3/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Nov-03-2008
- Taking a Dare
Jennifer Garner reprises a major character in the Daredevil movie for this comic book-styled romp in the martial arts. Elektra (Garner) is a hired assassin who refuses to go forward with an assigned hit, which doesn't sit well with an...
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- 2/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Jun-08-2008
- Preposterous Action Scenes
I like Garner and think she's an appealing actress, and I liked her in Daredevil, but in this movie the action scenes are so weak and unbelievable. She is supposed to be a great fighter, but we hardly see anything, it's just implied that...
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