Elektra (2005)

User Rating:

4.9/10   

Director:

Rob Bowman

Writers (WGA):

Mark Steven Johnson (motion picture characters) and
Frank Miller (comic book characters) ...

Release Date:

14 January 2005 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Adventure | Fantasy

Tagline:

She's the last thing that stands between good and evil.

Plot:

Elektra the warrior survives a near-death experience, becomes an assassin-for-hire, and tries to protect her two latest targets, a single father and his young daughter, from a group of supernatural assassins.

Plot Keywords:

Assassin | Resurrection | Heroine | Supernatural | Action Heroine

Awards:

2 nominations

Cast

Jennifer Garner	...	Elektra
Goran Visnjic	...	Mark Miller
Kirsten Prout	...	Abby Miller
Will Yun Lee	...	Kirigi
Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa	...	Roshi
Terence Stamp	...	Stick
Natassia Malthe	...	Typhoid
Bob Sapp	...	Stone
Chris Ackerman	...	Tattoo
Edson T. Ribeiro	...	Kinkou
Colin Cunningham	...	McCabe
Hiro Kanagawa	...	Meizumi
Mark Houghton	...	Bauer
Laura Ward	...	Young Elektra
Kurt Max Runte	...	Nikolas Natchios

Also Known As:

Elektra (Canada: French title)

MPAA:

Rated PG-13 for action violence.

Runtime:

97 min | 100 min (director's cut)

Country:

Canada | USA

Language:

English | Japanese

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

DTS | Dolby Digital | SDDS

Certification:

UK:12A (original rating) | Netherlands:16 (video rating) | Taiwan:PG-12 | USA:PG-13 (certificate #41331) | USA:Unrated (director's cut) | Iceland:12 (video rating) | Iceland:14 (theatrical rating) | Malaysia:18SG | South Korea:15 | Denmark:11 | UK:12 (video rating) | Canada:14A (Alberta/Manitoba) | Canada:G (Quebec) | Canada:PG (British Columbia/Nova Scotia/Ontario) | Japan:U | Argentina:13 | Australia:M | Brazil:14 | Chile:14 | Finland:K-15 | France:U | Germany:12 | Hong Kong:IIA | Ireland:12A | Peru:14 | Singapore:PG | Switzerland:14 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:14 (canton of Vaud) | Switzerland:14 (canton of Zurich)

Filming Locations:

Capilano River Regional Park, North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Company:

Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation

Trivia:

The character of Stick was originally introduced in the Daredevil comic book as the man who taught Matt Murdock how to fight.

Goofs:

Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): The young Elektra has brown eyes, but Jennifer Garner's are green.

Quotes:

[from trailer]
Abby Miller: You really kill people for a living?
Elektra: Yeah.
Abby Miller: Why?
Elektra: It's what I'm good at.
Abby Miller: That's messed up.
Elektra: Yeah.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in The Benchwarmers (2006)

Soundtrack:

JINGLE BELLS

So Much Potential.....

Elektra is part of the era of comic book adaptations, and just like "The Hulk", it falls short. The plot was terribly carried out, and the acting wasn't so great. The characters sure were interesting but not much is known about them(unless you had read the comics). Still, Elektra brings nothing new to the comic book movie series and no wonder it flopped at the box office. Only hardcore fans of the Elektra comics will find this movie interesting. It truly had so much potential that unfortunately was not used to its greatest extent, Elektra suffers just like Catwoman did, so that goes to tell you that even if a popular and beautiful actress stars in a comic book adaptation , it won't necessarily be successful.