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Product Description:
Restored to life after sustaining mortal wounds in daredevil an icy
solitary elektra now lives only for death as the worlds most lethal
assassin. Using her bonecrunching martial arts skills & ability to see
into the future. Elektra is on a collision course with darkness. Studio:
Tcfhe Release Date: 10/02/2007 Starring: Jennifer Gardner Goran Visnijic
Run time: 104 minutes Rating: Pg13
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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.
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
