Movie Review - Elektra

Very bad indeed. During the scenes where Jennifer Garner is dressed in her red Elektra costume there are certain angles where she facially looks like a very badly made-up drag queen. A very harsh chin and jawline making her look very masculine indeed. Almost as if a lot of her scenes were being shot by a man in very bad make-up. The Chinese wire fighting was truly awful. What may have helped this film a little would have been a nice huge caveat stating "No reality was attempted during the filming of this picture". I normally hate that kind of fighting and previously hated films like House of Flying Daggers & Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.

The girl playing Abby was obviously chosen to look a little like a young version of Elektra. The head of the rogue faction of the hand gang did not look old enough to have been the man who killed Elektra's mother. I could only assume that at least 15 years had passed between the death of her mother and the final conflict back at their house. Terrance Stamp is totally miscast as the Sensei but his voice is instantly recognizable at the start of the film. This truly could have done with more back story, setting up Elektra's credentials as an assassin. The little inset at the start was not enough. The whole set-up about the death of Elektra's mother was not filled out enough. We are never really told why (and if we are, it is NOT explained clearly enough for my liking).

The baddies are good but not given enough to do. The ending is weak, as is the whole film generally. Jennifer Garner could have been used so much better and cutting Ben Affleck as Daredevil out of the film was totally stupid. This film is for the martial arts lovers only.
Everyone else? AVOID!