Elektra
I'll start with my background regarding this movie: I really liked DareDevil, the only complain I had was Kingpin when Michael Clarke Duncan was cast, and then again when the last fight was so lame, but overall I really liked it. I also love Jennifer Garner, and though I've never seen a single episode of Alias, I've loved her in everything else. Loved 13 Going on 30 last year.
I've never read an Elektra comic book, basically because I just don't read comic books. Despite that, I knew little about the character of Elektra before the DareDevil movie, while I knew everything about DareDevil and lots and lots of the Marvel heroes.
Finally, the trailer for Elektra was kinda stupid (the tiger getting out of a man's body), I still had hopes for the movie. There were supposed to be Ninjas and it had Jennifer Garner, Elektra could be good... but not. It's one of the worst movies I've seen in my life, and it's probably the worst movie we'll see this year, I'm predicting it right now. It's pure shit.
The story is just like the trailers showed us: Elektra is sent to kill a guy (Mark) and his daughter (Abby), but they befriend her. The bad guys then send other assassins, and Elektra needs to defend Mark and Abby from them.
Of course, there's a twist, I mean, why would someone want to kill Mark and Abby? and what happens is just so bad that it was really painful to watch. It wasn't even funny.
And the Ninjas? Well, there are only two ninjas that actually fight Elektra, and they're so lame that the first one dies even before starting the fight.
Then we have the real bad guy, the one behind it all, Roshi, played by the guy who played Shang Tsung in Mortal Kombat (!). He's ok, but just cause he's in the movie for 10 minutes. He's old to fight now, so we have his son, and the son's posse: a black guy that appears to be holding a candle in his hand all the time, and he walks weird; a big fat Chinese/black guy whose body is made of stone as bullets nor Elektra's Sai Daggers do anything to him; a woman who sucks life out of living things; and tattoo, the one guy in the trailer, with (of course!) tattoos in his body. He has the ability to bring these tattoos to life and they (a bird, snakes and a wolf) can attack Elektra or whoever is in front of them. This guy is one of the worst characters ever made.
And the ways they die is just stupid, no cool fights or anything. Elektra just breaks their necks while they're doing yoga, or she throws a Sai from a mile away and it hits them in the head and they die. They're supposed to be this big badass enemies, but they're just lame.
Roshi's son is pretty lame too, he fights Elektra twice, and he kicks her ass, but then of course she hits him just once and he dies. And how do they die? Same as Mortal Kombat again (seriously, this could've been MK3 if they had named the main character Sonya Blade), this green smoke comes out of their bodies and they disappear.
But the even worse character in the movie is Elektra's sensei. I can't remember his name right now but every time he talked it was just awful. Horrible lines giving advice or predicting what was going to happen. Just pathetic.
Finally Elektra herself, as I mentioned before, I loved Jennifer Garner last year in 13 Going on 30, she was radiant with beauty, funny and totally adorable. Here she's this really pissed off girl who's got this angry face all the time. From start to end. She just smiled twice in the movie after 2 kissing scenes that are there just to show us that she's not a robot since there's not relationship at all, and she laughs also twice in the movie, after a joke with Abby (to a friendship between the two of them) and then again with Abby at the end of the movie.
Overall, it's laughable and also painful, with nothing worth noting, just horrible to watch from start to end.
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