Elektra (Full Screen Edition) |  | Director: Rob Bowman
Actors: Jennifer Garner, Goran Visnjic, Will Yun Lee, Kirsten Prout, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
Studio: Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation
Category: DVD
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Rating:  259 reviews
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Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Dubbed, DVD, Subtitled, NTSC
Languages: English (Original Language), Japanese (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), English (Dubbed), French (Dubbed), Spanish (Dubbed)
Rating: Unrated
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 97 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: FOXD2228276D
UPC: 024543182757
EAN: 0024543182757
ASIN: B0007P0Y7W
Theatrical Release Date: January 14, 2005
Release Date: April 5, 2005
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RESTORED TO LIFE AFTER SUSTAINING MORTAL WOUNDS IN DAREDEVIL, AN ICY SOLITARY ELEKTRA NOW LIVES ONLY FOR DEATH AS THE WORLD'S MOST LETHAL ASSASSIN. USING HER BONECRUNCHING MARTIAL ARTS SKILLS & ABILITY TO SEE INTO THE FUTURE. ELEKTRA IS ON A COLLISION COURSE WITH DARKNESS.
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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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 Elektra December 31, 2009
Arnita D. Brown (USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This movie was good. Jennifer Garner is one of the reasons why this movie is good. She does a great job of presenting a cold, darker version of Elektra . Her performance to me was not flawed in any manner. In fact the cast overall was decent. The story was very oringinal, and did keep my attention. I would highly recommend this movie to anyone who enjoys Marvel's super hero's.
 Elektra... Red Bustier? At least Daredevil had an excuse.... he was blind. November 1, 2009
Julian Kennedy (St Pete Florida)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Elektra: 4 out of 10: When people said Jennifer Garner, as Elektra, was the best thing in the movie Daredevil. I'm pretty sure they were mostly damning with faint praise. After all Jennifer, while certainly an attractive female, came across as a sorority pledge playing dress-up on S and M rush night.
In Elektra she looks even more ridiculous. There have been plenty of great female assassins over the years from the camp of a Bond villain, to the seductiveness of Linda Fiorentino, even the girl next-door deadliness of Bridget Fonda in Point of No Return. Female assassins are a wonderful staple of filmdom, seductive yet deadly. Garner is neither. "She looks like she is thinking of puppies," claimed one reviewer I read and I concur. If the Smurfs were X-rated ninja's, then Garner would still be miscast in Smurfette: Deadly Blue.
Her costumes certainly don't help her cause. You almost have the urge to tell her to put some clothes on and bright red Victoria Secret lingerie just doesn't scream stealth or deadly. Lord knows the rest of this mess doesn't help Garner either.
While Terrance Stamp can do no wrong every else seems either miscast or afraid of stealing Garner's thunder. Add on poor special effects, villains that turn into family friendly yellow smoke when killed, ninjas that crash through windows like Army rangers, gas stoves that explode like nuclear weapons, laundry fu, Japanese villains out of a World War 2 propaganda film and my personal favorite the warmest Christmas in Canadian history.
The movie clearly takes place in the northwest United States or Vancouver. The days are long, everyone is in short sleeves, and Garner takes recreational swims in the lake. (Canadian Lakes are notoriously cold even in August mind you) So when a cherub faced character asks Garner over for Christmas dinner Elektra isn't the only one surprised.
Garner is sexy but when it's time to kill she should either get dressed or let the grown-ups take care of things.
Climax problems October 6, 2009
Steven M. Schmidt (Vadnais Heights, MN USA)
Pretty good atmosphere, and I like Jennifer Garner, so I liked it - to a point. Unfortunately, the point I stopped liking it was the climax. Since I don't want to be a spoiler, I won't say more.
 Mediocre TV Movie September 14, 2009
Andrew Salmon (Vancouver, British Columbia Canada)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Finally got to see this and I can say it was definitely NOT worth the wait.
This movie has the production values of a bad pilot and the story is about as dull an uninteresting as that same dull pilot. I first encountered the character in the Daredevil comics back in the day and this version of Elektra bears no resemblance to this character.
Shoveling in the relationshippy/mother-daughter angle into what is supposed to be an action movie about a ruthless assassin turns Elektra into a "kick ass chick flick". Well, I've nothing again kick ass female characters. I enjoyed the original issues of Daredevil with Elektra, heck, I even enjoy Xena, but this movie is so poorly made that everything about it just bores one to death. It's by the numbers movie making and hits all of the cliches dead on: grimacing Asian assassins, the stoic blind teacher, the tortured female hero torn by love and family and a desire to "settle down". Yawn.
It's exactly this type of mundane super hero movie that WATCHMEN was created to counter.
Avoid this one like the plague. Jennifer Garner deserved better than being shoved into this clunker. Don't waste your time on Elektra.
 Good story,,,right amount of action September 10, 2009
rlspectrum (Wilmington, NC USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I guess most people who seemed this movie would rate it low because there was not enough action. However, Electra was not a heroine that did not have any super-powers, but skill, speed, patient, and thought. All of which came through the movie the movie. True there was some CG action in the movie but just enough to make this movie good for what it is...all about the fights and J. Garner! If you're a big fan fan of Garner, then you will love this movie. Remember Alias?
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