Elektra

Action/Crime/Thriller - 96 min — Directed by Rob Bowman
Cast: Jennifer Garner, Goran Visnjic, Kirsten Prout, Will Yun Lee, Terence Stamp
Elektra, spin-off from the abyssmal Daredevil movie, a lethal synthesis of grace and power with the mystical power known as kimagure: a limited ability to see the future. She has purposefully severed all ties with the world and lives only for her next assignment. Elektra's latest job forces her to make a decision that can take her life in a whole new direction or destroy her.

Forced myself to watch this, just to get the perspective of seeing a really bad movie to compare other to. But I was surprised that it wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. Sure, it's not especially good, but then again, neither is it really bad. It's the villains that make it watchable. The story is not much to talk about, neither is Jen Garner's pathetic attempts to look sexy. She doesn't look sexy at all, rather the opposite. She looks incredibly pathetic, especially in Elektra's red outfit. Being a fan of the original Elektra, her red outfit looks absolutely nothing like the real one did. She's not a S&M leather-whore like she's portrayed here. I could go on and on about that, but I'll spare you. Suffice to say, Elektra looks nothing like that. The something-fu fighting sequences with ELektra looked real pathetic. I'll never understand why they always feel it necessary nowadays to include oriental fighting in movies. Sure, Elektra uses oriental style fighting, but not this pathetic Hollywood karate or whatever you wanna call it that has become so popular. It looks/feels like the pathetic something-fu they used in the Matrix films. It makes me wanna scream and puke. The CGI was average, they certainly didn't bring on the big boys for this, and you could see it, especially in the mansion sheet fight at the end. I give it +1 in rating, just because it didn't suck as much as I feared.

My Rating: 6 / 10