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
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 (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; Japanese (Original Language); English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); 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-Video, 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
Movie Reviews of Elektra (Widescreen Edition)
Movie Review: mediocre movie
Summary: 3 Stars
The movie itself is two stars but Jennifer Garner is pretty hot so thats 1 star in itself thats how I got 3 stars haha. But the movie is very mediocre as in the story is pretty much stupid. Theres a few good action scenes but the rest of em just flat out suck. Acting is decent but nothing to get excited over. The movie just failed on so many levels. Garner makes a decent but not perfect Electra. I was just hoping for a senseless violence movie and what I got in it was an assassin who cries over a family she is hired to kill.
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!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.
DVD features
Ben Affleck's much-rumored cameo is one of the deleted scenes on the Elektra DVD. It's a one-minute throwaway, and while he's supposedly appearing as Matt Murdock (who romanced Elektra in Daredevil), the barrage of celebrity gossip makes it impossible to see him as anything other than Jennifer Garner's real-life boyfriend. There's also a making-of featurette, which is mostly promotional hype other than a few interesting effects shots; four editing featurettes; and Jennifer Garner's videotaped message to ComicCon. --David Horiuchi
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