merelyaninnuendo 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.

alindsay-al My friend lent me this film and I now realise this is one of the worst films I have seen especially comic book wise. The premise of the film sees a recently resurrected elektra attempting to protect a family from an evil ninja organisation. Jennifer garner reprises her role as elektra from daredevil and she just doesn't do anything for the character. She comes across as very bland in this film and her character development just isn't existent and it does feel like garner didn't want to be there. The supporting cast also are really bland, the father daughter combo of mark and Abby Miller were just very cliché characters and you never care about either of them. The villains are also ridiculously over the top and they just come across as forced performances. The only performance that I slightly liked was Terence stamp as stick who I thought did the best he could do with this film. The story has absolutely no depth to it at all. You don't care about anybody in this film so when the story tries to be more dramatic you won't care. Also the flashbacks in this film are just so unnecessary and they don't add anything to the film. The script has some really cheesy dialogue in it and the drama doesn't work. The style has some awful action scenes in it that are ruined by a terrible sense of stunt work and cinematography. Overall this film is really not worth watching at all and you should avoid it at all cost.

Leofwine_draca This supposed follow-up to DAREDEVIL omits one important component of that previous movie: no Ben Affleck. Instead the focus of the film falls on the rather boring, obsessive life of Elektra, Daredevil's attractive sidekick who actually died on a rooftop in that previous movie. But here she is resurrected from the dead by a blind martial arts master, fighting off various members of criminal gang The Hand who are after a young girl whose skills hold the secret to the future. In many respects, the plot resembles that of recent Jackie Chan flick THE MEDALLION, but incredibly it's even LIGHTER than in that film. Only shadowy clips go towards explaining our lead's decision to become a professional assassin, and of the bad guys, we have no idea of their past, except that an evil-looking Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa (SHOWDOWN IN LITTLE TOYKO) is leading them. Sadly, Tagawa – usually a great and sadistic villain – is relegated to sitting behind a desk in his few appearances here.ELEKTRA – for all its previews as a martial arts extravaganza – is light on action, heavy on plot less character-building. We learn a lot about a bleeding 14 year old girl (as soon as I saw her and her cringe-worthy 'bonding' with Elektra, I knew we were in trouble) but nothing very interesting. When the action comes, it takes jump-cuts and ruthless editing to the next level, resulting clumsy, messy fight sequences where you can't really see what's going on. I really expected more of Rob Bowman, who directed some atmospheric episodes of THE X-FILES a while ago.Jennifer Garner is certainly attractive as Elektra – especially in her red suit – but she has nowhere to go and nothing to do. Even the actress herself reportedly slammed the film. E.R. doctor Goran Visnjic is handsome but empty as the father figure, and disappears about halfway through the movie, whilst the kid Prout is awful. The only other noteworthy is Terence Stamp as a blind master. As a commanding master, he's good; as blind, he's totally unbelievable.The bad guys are built up with special skills – one has stone skin, another has a deadly kiss – but incredibly, they die straight away and prove no match for our heroine whatsoever. The special effects are remarkably good, especially in the shape of one guy's tattoos which frequently come to life, but that can't save the film. Even the promise of a full-on ninja attack come the finale is cruelly destroyed as Elektra blows them up all at the same time (why the hell do they all jump into the same room anyway). The best bit of this slow-moving, long-winded film? Early on, when a ninja breaks his own neck rather than be captured. It's a classic scene in an otherwise uninteresting and poorly-conceived effort.

slightlymad22 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)