Movie Review: "Elektra" (2005)The 2005 released comic action movie "Elektra" directed by Rob Bowman, known for "The X-Files" (1998) and "Reign of Fire" (2002), delivers with a cool stylish hand of direction due to a highly disciplined and fully trained actress Jennifer Garner to a 90 minutes assassin / ninja skilled picture that in retrospective will entertain the knowledgeable genre fans with beautiful cinematic martial arts scenes of light and shadow embedded costume and production design worth a mid-range budget of 43 Million U.S. Dollars.© 2017 Felix Alexander Dausend (Cinemajesty Entertainments LLC)

Yeah, I don't think that "Elektra (2005)" was a very good spin-off movie to begin with. I mean, not once did I actually believe that Jennifer Garner was in fact Elektra Natchios in this movie or in the 2003 Daredevil movie at all. She's just some airhead in a skimpy corset to me. And honestly, her outfit in this movie is ridiculous. Like, this is what they considered to be a cool outfit for a female ninja assassin?! Lame!!!! Never really liked the character of Abby because she was a pain in the neck and I really don't buy Tarrace Stamp's performance as "Stick" in this movie. Lastly, the villains are boring. At least with the 2003 Daredevil movie, it had the Kingpin and Bull's-Eye. But this?! We got the actor who played Shang Tsung from Mortal Kombat as the leader of "The Hand" and some other generic mystical henchmen led by his son, played by Will Yun-Lee and that's it. That's what we got for villains in this movie.So, if you're like expecting to see some cool action scenes featuring the character of Elektra Natchios, you're not gonna get with this movie. I would strongly recommend watching the Netflix Daredevil series, instead.Overall, don't even bother with this movie. It's boring, tedious and well, kind of pointless. It's no wonder why Fox gave the rights to Daredevil back to Marvel. Now if only they would do the same thing to the Fantastic Four, but that's gonna take even longer.

Jennifer Garner as Elektra is just amazing she is so beautiful and she makes the character her own. The effects are good, the enemies are good and the story is good a really underrated Marvel Movie. There's a really great deleted scene where Ben Affleck reprises his role as Matt Murdock and he visits Elektra as a dream and it was really great it should made the final cut. This film and Daredevil deserved a sequel too bad they never happened. At the end Elektra is not as great as Daredevil but still is a good film and it's a lot better than other superhero movies like Catwoman and Batman & Robin. A 9 out of 10 for me i liked it a lot.

Elektra (2005): Dir: Rob Bowman / Cast: Jennifer Garner, Terence Stamp, Goran Visnjic, Kirsten Prout, Will Yun Lee: Candy coated crap with only lavish production to gaze at. Elektra is a female assassin assigned to protect a father and daughter duo from a group called the Hand. These guys are bad. They are the kind of baddies who stole lunch money from smaller kids at school. Now they have demonic powers and Elektra finds it very difficult to perform her gift of ass kicking. The girl she is protecting is embarrassing especially when she leaps into action with powers of her own. Puh-lease! Director Rob Bowman makes things stylish while the screenwriter basically wrote what any kindergarten major would come up with. Jennifer Garner looks hot in her Elektra outfit but she is really there just to fight. She provides no personality to the role, and Terence Stamp is her blind mentor must have been so if he signed onto this project. Also featured in less than stellar performances are Goran Visnjic, Kirsten Prout and Will Yun Lee who will no doubt cross their agents off their Christmas giving list. While the special effects are passable, the film is about as suspenseful as an episode of Sesame Street. It is hardly a major comic book and its adaptation is among the worst of the lot. It was bad enough that she was featured in Daredevil. This is a pointless comic book crap that is less than electrifying. Score: 3 / 10