Review of Elektra

Elektra (2005)
5/10
The people that made this don't read comic books
12 April 2005
Very disappointing. Jennifer Garner is great but basically the only enjoyment I got was watching her. They could have gone two ways with this, made it either "real world" and had it be a Dirty Harry type thing, or gone the comic book route like X-men or Spiderman. It seems like tried to go the comic book route but the director couldn't have read many comics. There should have been great action/fights in this but there weren't. They actually came up with some cool villains, the stone man, the guy who could animate his tattoos, the plague woman, etc but there were no fights. Basically there would be a set up, then boom! one kick, or one throw and it was over. The one extended fight scene was done in a place where big white sheets were floating around so you didn't actually see anything. Was that supposed to be artsy? If they spent any time at all on the action (and isn't that what comics are about?) this could have been great. It's like they thought if they put Jenifer Garner in that outfit everything else would take care of itself.
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