Elektra (Widescreen Edition)
by Rob Bowman
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Actor: Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Goran Visnjic, Jennifer Garner, Kirsten Prout, Will Yun LeeDirector: Rob Bowman
Brand: Marvel Kids
Producer: Arnon Milchan
Producer: Avi Arad
Writer: Frank Miller
Writer: Mark Steven Johnson
Writer: Raven Metzner
Writer: Stu Zicherman
Writer: Zak Penn
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; Japanese (Original Language); English (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 5.1; French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; Spanish (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Dubbed, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 97 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-04-05
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation
Product features:
- TESTED
Movie Reviews of Elektra (Widescreen Edition)
Movie Review: She's Back and She's Bad
Summary: 5 Stars
After the events of Daredevil, Elektra's lifeless body was collected by Stick, a master in the ancient arts. After a lot of work, incantations and magic, our heroine is brought back to life. Life will never be the same for her or anyone she knows....
A couple of years later, she is an assassin, killing for money. We have already seen her slaying a target. She boasts an impressive array of powers, leaping, kicking, stabbing and running her way through out the whole exercise. While clearing away the evidence of her massacre, McCabe her agent walks in carrying a massive bag of cash. He asks her whether she wants another job, offering A LOT of money two hundred thousand infact, at first, she is reluctant to do it, as she is pretty run down, but later agrees.
We learn that Elektra is plagued by nightmares, of her mother's brutal and timely death, and also when she was brought back, her previous troubles re emerge. When a kid, Elektra suffered from Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, and since her resurrection, the disease has come back with a vengeance.
For the job, Elektra is living in a spacious, but cold apartment over looking the sea. Again, while swimming in it, sudden memories emerge of her father making her swim in a pool, for hours on end. When, she stops swimming, she goes back into her apartment and notices a shadow running along the corridor. She instantly assumes that it is a robber and hunts it down, but when she finds the culprit it is only a thirteen year old girl named Abby.
When Elektra and Abby meet again, Elektra is invited into her home for Christmas dinner. But when the house is invaded by demonic ninja's the friendly meting quickly turns into a fight for survival. Elektra has to ask herself, whether she is going to go along with her job, or help, these seemingly helpless friends.
The Hand is an evil organisation, who has been around for centuries. The only thing that could possible stop them is a special power that possesses one woman alone. As you can imagine The Hand, don't really want her to live much longer as they don't want her to have a chance at killing them. The demons that invaded Abby and her father's house are members of The Hand.
It quickly becomes apparent that Abby is not all she seems, and Elektra is going to have a hard time protecting her. The Hand latest assassins to try and defeat Elektra are Typhoid Mary, a women with the kiss of death (literally) Tattoo a man whose tattoos are really, really realistic, Stone, the heavy weight wrestler and the leader of the gang Kirigi a uber strong Japanese warrior.
What is Abby's deadly secret? Will she be able to bring The Hand to its knees? Does Elektra's tragic past have a link to her immediate future? You will have to pop down to your local cinema to find out.
I am a fan, of anything Jennifer Garner does. I think that her work on Alias is truly amazing, and in 13 Going On 30 she was instantly lovable, but it was when she first donned her black suit in Daredevil, that I first thought she was perfectly cast in a role. She does seem to ooze all the sexiness that the character needs, as well as being warmly affectionate and perfectly moody and glum. Also she has the body for such a physical role. I think her performance in Elektra is better than her one in Daredevil, as her character is allowed a lot more screen time. As an audience, we delve really deep into the whole persona and history of her character and Garner relishes that. It really did secure my belief that she is the best actress for the role. Garner turns herself into a bad ass heroine will the click of a finger and perfectly transforms into the role she is cast as. What was a glimmer of hope in the dark, and dismissed Daredevil, is now a fully blown flame in Elektra.
I can honestly say that I think this is a lot better than Daredevil, script wise. At least Zak Penn tries to delve as deep into Elektra's history as possible. I thought that it was written very well, especially at the beginning as it doesn't dive into action straight away, it lays down the rules, of the fight between The Hand and just about everybody else. I also thought it was fuelled by emotion, bringing in the aspect of Elektra's Obsessive Compulsive Disorder was a clever move as it buries the fear, that maybe her illness will stop her from winning a fight.
Rob Bowman, the driving force behind X files. Directs this film, with a lot of vision, and establishes, again emotion into the movie straight away, as he always plays on the audiences minds. I wasn't ever sure, what was going to happen next, and that goes as credit to him. He obviously has a talent for drawing good performances out of his performers. He brings in good pace, and always makes it a treat to watch.
Visually Elektra is clever. Using colour very well. For instance a lovely touch was when Elektra reveals her tight red suit, and all this long draping white cotton swirls menacingly around her. Always establishing a fear, that something unexpected could happen at any minute. The special effects are above average, but not stunning. Again a nice touch, was when instead of their being blood in the baddies, a scary green midst emerges in its place.
I thought that Elektra, although not extremely thrilling was one of the best comic book adaptations in a long time. Jennifer Garner was perfect, visually it was quite exciting, and a rocking soundtrack makes it a really big treat. I loved it.
Summary of Elektra (Widescreen Edition)
FROM THE FORCES THAT BROUGHT YOU X-MEN AND DAREDEVIL?Superstar Jennifer Garner proves that looks can kill as the sexiest action hero ever to burst from the pages of Marvel Comics. Restored to life after sustaining mortal wounds in Daredevil, an icy, solitary Elektra (Garner) now lives only for death as the world?s most lethal assassin. Using her bone-crunching martial arts skills and Kimagure?the ability to see into the future?Elektra is on a collision course with darkness? until her latest assignment forces her to make a choice that will lead either to her redemption or destruction in the ultimate battle between good and evil!
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