Elektra (2005)
9 %
Reviews Counted: 142 Fresh: 13 Rotten:129 Average Rating: 3.7/10
Consensus:
This comic book movie is an inert muddle that takes itself much too seriously.
Runtime: 1 hr 44 mins
Theatrical Release: Jan 14, 2005 Wide
Box Office: $24,326,793
Synopsis: From the pages of Marvel Comics, creator of "X-Men" and "Spider-Man," comes ELEKTRA, the first action event movie of the year. In the ultimate battle between good and evil stands a warrior who makes the choice that tips the balance. Jennifer Garner stars in the title role as a strong,... [More]
Genre: Action/Adventure
Starring: Jennifer Garner, Goran Visnjic, Will Yun Lee, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Terence Stamp
Director: Rob Bowman
Screenwriter: Zak Penn, Stuart Zicherman, Raven Metzner
Producer: Arnon Milchan, Gary Foster, Avi Arad
Composer: Christophe Beck
Screenwriter: Zak Penn, Stuart Zicherman, Raven Metzner
Producer: Arnon Milchan, Gary Foster, Avi Arad
Composer: Christophe Beck
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Reviews
What's missing in this Elektra is a certain sense of play and imagination.
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07/30/07
It felt like I was back in my childhood watching serial chapters at a Saturday matinee.
03/06/07
This doesn't exactly set the world on fire, but I was charmed by its old-fashioned storytelling, which is refreshingly free of archness, self-consciousness, or Kill Bill-style wisecracks.
03/05/07
Top Critic
Everything comes back to Garner, though -- and even when the movie takes itself too seriously, thankfully she never does.
03/05/07
As for Garner, she remains a lovely screen presence, but it's impossible to buy her as an emotionless killing machine.
03/01/07
Elektra shoves Frank Miller's eponymous cold-blooded assassin into a PG-13-friendly adventure.
10/06/06
During a fight, a character declared "Enough! It ends now." And I thought It's about time! Now there's a sure sign of an action movie falling short of its potential.
09/22/06
Garner may justify her reputation as an action woman, but fails to prove that sais matter.
04/01/06
There's a skeleton of a cool fantasy story here, but the clatter and clunk of its fleshless bones is dispiriting.
02/07/06
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01/17/06
Absent an established fan base or cadre of recognizable villains, filmmakers are forced to shoehorn in superfluous back story and excessive inner turmoil.
12/06/05
Much like the onslaught of sword-and-sandal epics, the comic-book-adaptation boom has resulted in a decreased effectiveness of the subjects.
08/07/05
The curse of the new Bennifer has birthed a deformed fury that not even sexy red ninja lingerie could save
07/06/05
...it lacks the emotional punch. How can you mourn for someone when mourning becomes Elektra?
04/30/05
Garner looks great in the Elektra outfit, but that didn’t do much for the plotting and filmmaking, which is average to worse.
04/15/05
Elektra's muddled story and formal unsightliness aren’t filmmaking tragedies of Greek proportions, just Hollywood’s latest casualty of concept over character.
04/13/05
'Jennifer Garner tiene el potencial de ser una súper estrella, pero con decisiones como ésta el camino va a ser mucho más complicado de lo que debería'
04/04/05
...a pointless, muddled mass of sentiment and clichés that elicits mainly yawns.
03/25/05
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