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DVD Elektra (Unrated Director's Cut)
While 2003's Daredevil was a conventional superhero movie, the 2005 spinoff, Elektra, is more of a wuxia-styled martial arts/fantasy flick. Elektra (Jennifer Garner) has returned to her life as a hired assassin, but she balks at an assignment to kill a single father (Goran Visnjic, ER) and his teenage daughter (Kirsten Prout). That makes her the target of the Hand, an organization of murderous ninjas, scheming corporate types, and a band of stylish supervillains seeking to eliminate Elektra and tip the balance of power in the ongoing battle of good vs. evil.
As the star of Alias, Garner has proven that she can kick butt with the best of them, and some of the visual effects are impressive, but the action sequences tend to be anticlimactic, and there's not much to the story. Fans will notice numerous references to Frank Miller's comic books, but there's very little resemblance to Miller's cold-blooded killer (Elektra with an agent? Elektra referring to herself as a "soccer mom"?).
Is Elektra better than Daredevil? Not really, even with the distinct advantage of having all Garner and no Ben Affleck. That could be the spinoff's greatest disappointment: after Spider-Man 2 raised the bar for comic-book movies, Elektra lowered it back to Daredevil's level. Directed by Rob Bowman (the X-Files movie), and featuring Terence Stamp as the mysterious mentor Stick, Will Yun Lee (Die Another Day) as the chief villain, and NFL-player-turned-mixed-martial-arts-champion Bob Sapp as the immovable Stone. --David Horiuchi
This movis is AWSOME!! Way better than the orignal!! It's better to buy this AWSOME dvd than to rent it!!
Just a bit Better
After watching Daredevil I fell in love with Elektra. I couldn't wait to see the Elektra movie. I was disappointed on many levels. The story wasn't bad but I felt like it was being held back. And there was not Daredevil. He is supposes to be that love of her life but it's like he ever happened.
When the DVD come out I ran off and bout it right off. I was again disappointed. There like very little on the DVD other then the movie. And in the deleted scenes we see a Matt/daredevil dream that was not in the movie for time. I don't buy that the movie is less then two hours.
When I saw a Director's cut was coming out, I had to hope for something more. I am much happier with this cut. It all makes a little more since to me. But I had to watch it with the commentary before I got when was done with it and what was going on. They still left out the Matt scene which I think is need to tie it in but it was much better. I only wish directors were allowed to make the movie the way they want and not the way they are told to all movies would be better for it.
........completely pointless!
Regardless of how you rate the feature itself, this so called 'directors cut' is a complete waste of cash! I was excited to hear about this 'new' version of Elektra and so ordered it straight away. But unlike the Daredevil directors cut, that added new scenes, and effects and plot re-workings, all you get is Elektra pretty much the way you saw it in the cinema..there are only blink and you miss it changes that are so subtle it begs the question as why they bothered releasing this in the first place. Although that question seems to be answered in two very lengthy making of features where the self gratuitous Director treats us to his insight, and lots of screen time of him sitting in his editing suite looking bored, talking about the x-files, leaching over Jennifer Garner, telling us how he got all his friends jobs on the film etc...and you cant help wondering if he hadn't been so proud of NOT audience test screening this film, how it may have benefited from fans insight and critique.......save your money there is nothing new or worth note here....if you haven't bought the film yet buy the regular UK version..it has all the extras you need, without the waffle!(this review is for the directors cut dvd)
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