Review of Elektra (2005) by Dahurtbizness — 14 Mar 2023

The introduction narration was weak but the opener scene 2:30-7:10 still is the best scene from any anti hero movie. that scene alone perfectly capture frank miller's elektra how mysterious and how she known as a myth that lurk in the shadows. J.Gard was soo perfect but was wasted in the rest of the movie. the whole movie should've been taken place at night. I loved her all red outfit and it even paid homage to ultimate elektra when she wore all white, the problem becomes when the writers zak penn, stuart zicherman & raven metzner for creating non existing comic book characters that's made only for this movie characters like Abby Miller, Mark Miller, Roshi, Kinkou, Meizumi in an incredibly flawed incoherent script.

And making Stone a villain, gender swapping Nina McCabe by making her into a male character only using the character last name McCabe and should've kept Ben Affleck as Matt Murdock/Daredevil scene. I only gave this a 7 score rating only bcuz of how good the opener scene is. the movie shot itself by trying to build a story around non existing characters instead of maintaining the supernatural mysterious and myth setting that it build up rather than trying to create artificial connections to the created characters that u don't care about. this movie should've had Radioactive Man as elektra's main villain since they're enemies in the comics. it could've played off of the idea of resurrection and greg rucka's 03 elektra comic: (Elektra is forced to confront her murderous past after being taken hostage by an adversary. Feeling desperate in her containment, Elektra must choose between continuing her homicidal professin or making an attempt to change her life.) that would've been a far more impactful story then what we've ended up with. ppl are right about this movie doesn't know what it what's to be it's all over the place. bcuz this movie should've been a spin off sequel to daredevil that shows what took place after the events from '03's daredevil. I do enjoy J.Gard's elektra but the bad, outweighs the good. too many shortcomings too many subplots and boring unoriginal created characters that the story surrounds itself with brings this movie down and latch itself onto this movie like a tumor. J.Gard tried to do the best that she had to work with and even she knew it was a bad movie and admitted during the world premiere of this movie. the writer and fox wasn't even confident of the very movie that it's spinning off from why bring back MSJ the director of '03 Daredevil to write this movie and isn't even confident in his own work and advertising it as "from the makers that brought u x-men franchise" instead of the director from daredevil it's no surprise that this movie turn out the way that it did I love J.Gard from '03 daredevil and she showed her potential at the start of this movie but was wasted in the rest of it.

So overall it should've had a better main villain, the setting should've always taken place at night to keep the mystique, and mysteriousness of elektra, the writing after the opening scene was over was cringe and a chore, the created characters for this movie was a plot device and unappealing, and less that was told about elektra could've also be something that this movie could've benefited from and this movie should've had kept affleck's daredevil scene so it can feel like it's a in the same universe but this movie feels so disconnected, so to sum it up this movie was directionless filter that's so disjointed with Garner and her character being wasted. I hope she gets a second chance, and the blame shouldn't go on her she did the best that she could, however it doesn't matter how good of an actor and actress u are, u can't make a bad script and awful movie good, no matter how good u are. the blame Soley goes to: rob bowman, zak penn, stuart zicherman & raven metzner and 20th century fox.