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	t 'n t luoma: Elektra 2005 Movie Review
		Elektra the warrior is released from the hospital after a near death experience to become an assasin.
		Apparently she missed the scene at the very beginning of the movie where a narrator tells us that someone, a female, is supposed to balance the forces of good and evil, and that both good and evil where trying to recruit this female.
		One of the biggest problems this movie had to overcome is the fact that the three "Matrix" movies have significantly raised the bar for action/fight sequences.
	tntluoma.com /beyond30/2005/01/elektra_2005_movie_review (2612 words)

	Elektra (2005) Movie Review - The Hollywood News
		Following the events of Daredevil, Elektra Natchios (Jennifer Garner), sai enthusiast and assassin-for-hire who dies at the end of the film, is brought back to life by the Order of the Hand - a group of assassins who helped train her before her temporary demise.
		The movie is more mystical and magical than most of the other comic books recently adapted for the big screen.
		In the case of Elektra, I have to confess that I did.
	www.thehollywoodnews.com /reviews/archive/2005/elektra.php (545 words)

	SCREEN IT! PARENTAL REVIEW: ELEKTRA
		Elektra is a hired assassin who not only kills her targets, but also leaves a high body count in the wake of doing so.
		We see the shadow of someone in Elektra's rental home and Elektra quickly moves to find and stop whoever it is. When she sees a figure move by, she throws a box cutter that impales the person's shirtsleeve to the wall (it turns out to be Abby).
		Elektra senses that Kirigi and his minions have arrived and that she and the others don't have a chance to escape.
	www.screenit.com /movies/2005/elektra.html (2445 words)

	TheMovieBoy Review - Elektra (2005)
		As the movie opens, Elektra, who has become a high-powered assassin as a way of dealing with the murder of her mother when she was a child, is instructed to travel to a remote island in the Pacific Northwest and await her latest assignment.
		The first twenty minutes of "Elektra" are sluggish, to the say the least, as Elektra travels to her designated destination and mostly sits around and meditates while thinking of key moments from her childhood.
		As Elektra, Garner's natural charisma is reigned back to barely a murmur, as she is asked to not do much more than mope around, kick butt when she needs to, and, during the climax, look good in a skimpy red number that would be more suited for a high-priced call girl.
	www.themovieboy.com /reviews/e/05_elektra.htm (1081 words)

	Movie Review: Elektra
		Elektra trains for awhile with her new mentor, but eventually finds herself on her own and voluntariily cut off from most of humanity.
		But despite her reluctance to get involved or attached, Elektra is forced into at least a temporary alliance when she learns that Mark and Abby do have one thing in common with her: enemies known as The Hand.
		Elektra is rated PG-13 for "action violence." I didn't see anything in the movie that would make it unsuitable for children of age 10 or so and up, but the few younger kids in the theatre when I was there gave every impression of being bored.
	www.ladylibrty.com /movie_review_archives/2005/elektra.html (683 words)

	Elektra Movie Review at Hollywood Video (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Speaking of sexy, one refreshing element of this movie is that while Garner is sexy, her character is not sexualized—nor are any of the women, particularly, unless you count that deadly lesbian kiss.
		But really, even Elektra's red outfit is designed to allow her moves, as opposed to Halle Berry's impractical fl leather getup in Catwoman (yet another bad movie about a woman who returns from the dead).
		Comic-book movies are hard to pull off; the words that look perfect coming out of a bubble over the head of a drawing sound absolutely ridiculous when coming from the mouths of live actors.
	www.hollywoodvideo.com /movies/movie.aspx?MID=139584 (1494 words)

	Jennifer Garner: Elektra - Movie
		However the enjoyment of the villains ends too soon viewing Elektra an almighty being cannot be killed so with a simple throw of her dagger she can kill all the villains.
		Elektra is a Greek assasin and the dramatic changes she goes through are portrayed in the film.
		From here on, the writers strip away her intrigue and mystique, and it was disappointing to see a superhero suffer from OCD and insomnia, depend on an agent instead of a trusty butler, and generally get less and less super and more and more vulnerable.
	www.superiorpics.com /jennifer_garner/movie/2005_elektra.html (761 words)

	Elektra Exposed - Elektra (2005) Movie
		Thrust into the unexpected role of babysitter (alright, we exaggerate, but wouldn't the real Elektra grumble?), she's forced to protect the lives of two innocent civilians while dealing with the threat of The Hand, an arcane order of evil ninjas who are looking to rumble.
		A rumored kiss is to take place in the film between Elektra and this Typhoid Mary character (one of the most memorable, mentally-imbalanced women in the Marvel Universe, I'll have you know)...
		Elektra is © Marvel Entertainment Group, Inc. All written content on this page, except what is noted on the disclaimer is copyright Elektra Exposed (2004-present).
	elektra.madmartyr.com /movie_elektra.html (911 words)

	Elektra (2005) - A Hollywood Jesus Movie Review
		We don’t see Elektra’s darkness that the movie hints--for example, made explicit in the comic book with her being a member of the Hand--so it is difficult to see her redemption.
		Once she was the sheltered daughter of a Greek diplomat, but after watching her father struck down in a hail of gunfire, the young woman named Elektra sought out training by a deadly band of ninjas.
		Assassin-for-hire Elektra Natchios (Garner) is revived by the Order of the Hand, a group of assassins who helped train her.
	www.hollywoodjesus.com /elektra.htm (456 words)

	Louisville Scene \| Movies \| Movie Review \| 'Elektra' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Simply by showing up, she makes "Elektra" far more entertaining than it has a right to be.
		They're after Abby, who (like Elektra) is a martial-arts prodigy and who (like Elektra) lost her mother at a young age.
		Elektra finds herself fighting to protect the father and daughter instead of killing them, and Abby becomes sort of her Mini-Me.
	www.courier-journal.com /scene/2005/01/14/movie_elektra.html (376 words)

	KINNOPIO.com - Elektra
		In agreeing to do Elektra, Garner appears to have taken some pointers from Ben Affleck, who played Daredevil in the earlier film: She spends the entire movie with a serious, faraway look on her face, her long, angular features determinedly clenched in an expression that is supposed to convey a world-class assassin’s hair-trigger lethality.
		Elektra, an assassin-for-hire, takes an assignment from her wisecracking manager, McCabe (Colin Cunningham), to kill a man named Mark Miller (Goran Visnjic) and his teenage daughter Abby (Kristin Prout).
		Indeed, the movie gets to its handful of fight scenes with a nearly audible sigh of relief; they are the standbys of a genre that has increasingly begun to see plot as a nuisance.
	home.earthlink.net /~kinnopio/reviews/2005/elektra.htm (646 words)

	MovieTalkVancouver movie #1 - 2005: Elektra (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Elektra has great strength but her character illustrates that is more human than a super hero because she has a lot of feeling & emotion - and she makes her decisions accordingly.
		A part of her past is explained, for example, Elektra had a difficult childhood and in the movie Rob Bowman (the director) uses alot of flash backs to visually explain this.
		I liked how the director filmed Elektra displaying her emotions, acting on her impulses and using her instincts in order to make the best of the situation.
	www3.telus.net /movietalkvancouver/elektra.html (193 words)

	Elektra (2005) - Family Movie Review
		The instructor literally gave her a new life after she was mortally wounded, as well as teaching her how to become a lethal warrior, and training her in the art of Kimagure, a meditation technique that allows you to see into the near future.
		This formidable force will give Elektra the ultimate challenge, in which she will have to completely shun the darkness inside of her so that she may concentrate all of her energies on saving the Millers and herself.
		During one of the breaks in the action, Typhoid decides to administer her poison touch to Elektra through a female-to-female kiss that is a bit more than friendly-and perhaps qualifying as an overdose for some viewers.
	www.parentpreviews.com /movie-reviews/elektra.shtml (688 words)

	Movie DVD for Elektra (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Elektra attempts to be an origin story, which is kind of silly considering the character was both introduced and killed off in 2003’s Daredevil.
		Now the Hand want Abby Miller dead, so Elektra finds herself drawn back into the war she didn’t want to be a part of so she can protect a girl who reminds her of her own miserable existence and of the moment when that existence started.
		Going there after this movie would be an absolute nightmare, as those non-showered geeks would now want to fondle you and/or kill you for what you’ve done to their beloved Elektra.
	www.cinemablend.com /review.php?id=940 (1809 words)

	SPLICEDwire \| "Elektra" movie review (2005) "Elektra" review, Rob Bowman, Jennifer Garner, Goran Visnjic
		Reprising her role from 2003's disastrous "Daredevil" adaptation (which she almost did save), Garner plays the title character -- a stereotypically brooding, ninja-trained super-assassin with a conscience who has been brought back from the dead by a generic, mystical army of good that is fighting a generic, mystical army of evil.
		Garner, who brought subtle, visceral emotion to this same character in "Daredevil," seems to be in over her head here, giving only cursory weight to the haunted internal struggle between the savior she now wants to be and the killer she had become.
		Comic-book action movies don't have to be as intelligent and gaffe-free as a Sam Raimi "Spider-Man" pictures to be worthwhile.
	www.splicedonline.com /05reviews/elektra.html (486 words)

	Elektra (2005) - PK's Comic Book Movie Reviews
		The good comic book movies don't slavishly copy a comic, they add to it -- the bad ones, which get dissed for not remaining true to the spirit of the source, subtract from it and then try to add back.
		This is why a film like Spider-Man, however well made it is, will always be artistically limited in a way that, say, Hulk is not: because the former sticks to a comic book story, and the latter is willing to rethink the source ideas on a much deeper level, with much more insight and originality.
		All that fine martial arts prowess is hardly central to the conflict, after all, when the real struggle is between different schools of magical powers, and the rules of conflict are just randomly pulled out of a hat between confrontations.
	gning.org /comix/elektra.html (580 words)

	Amazon.com: Elektra (Widescreen Edition): DVD: Jennifer Garner,Goran Visnjic,Kirsten Prout,Will Yun Lee,Cary-Hiroyuki ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Plot Outline 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.
		Elektra's latest job forces her to make a decision that can take her life in a whole new direction or destroy her.
		This film is about Elektra is the worlds greatest asassin, but when she gets a job to kill a man and his daughter, she refuses.
	www.amazon.com /Elektra-Widescreen-Jennifer-Garner/dp/B0007P0Y7C (1761 words)

	Amazon.ca: Elektra (Widescreen Edition): DVD: Rob Bowman,Jason Isaacs,Terence Stamp,Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa,Ian ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		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).
		Thus, Elektra was born and with it, the comic company's biggest financial film failure to date.
		Daredevil was a far better movie and I think they should have brought some of that movie into this, even if it just meant her remembering ben affleck's character.
	www.amazon.ca /Elektra-Widescreen-Rob-Bowman/dp/B0007P0Y7C (1199 words)

	Elektra (2005) - Horror Movie Reviews - HellHorror.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		In my opinion, this movie was made originally for a three hour long feature because everything flowed well until it came up to defeating these guys.
		This movie could have been up there with Blade, Resident Evil and even surpassed the X-men movie adaptation but they choose to leave out the main points to an assassin, action and consistency.
		The reason i didn't like this movie is probably because im a guy, but i didn't like this movie as much as i thought i would.
	www.hellhorror.com /horror-movie-reviews-352-1.html (657 words)

	Elektra
		In this comic book film spin-off of the blockbuster Daredevil movie, Alias star Jennifer Garner stars as Elektra Natchios, a beautiful and deadly assassin who finds herself at odds with "The Hand," the clan of mystical ninjas who trained - and then abandoned her.
		At the request of the villain Kirigi, she is assigned to target a Harbor Island man named Mark Miller because, she is told, of an act his grandfather had performed.
		But there is more to Mark Miller than Elektra knows, as he has aligned himself with "Stick," Elektra's former mentor, and both Miller and his daughter are quite able to defend themselves.
	www.comicbookmovie.com /news/elektra.asp (809 words)

	Elektra (2005)
		Following the events of Daredevil, Elektra Natchios (Garner), sai enthusiast and assassin for hire, is revived by the Order of the Hand, a group of assassins who helped train her.
		Assigned by the Hand's current leader, Kirigi, to kill a man, Mark Miller (Visnjic), and his 13-year-old daughter, Abby, Elektra soon befriends them and decides to stand up to her ninja peers.
		Elektra is especially motivated to do so when she discovers that Miller's grandfather was an ally of her former mentor, Stick (Stamp).
	xoomer.alice.it /amasoni2002/shl/marvel/elektra_(2005).htm (143 words)

	Amazon.com: Elektra (Unrated Director's Cut): DVD: Jennifer Garner,Goran Visnjic,Kirsten Prout,Will Yun ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Garner's serious/stoical portrayal of Elektra was refreshing in a time when most superheroes have to take on comedy as a side job so as to provide inane comical quips.
		I think this movie could potentially go on to sell A LOT MORE COPIES if they would take this story of the hand and MAGIC and the new versions of the villians (T. Mary and Tattoo are my favorites) and put those versions in a story.
		I really wanna know that.) I think the movie may have gotten more sales if at the beginning when she was gonna kill that dude she had on her trademark scarf, that would have killed it.
	www.amazon.com /Elektra-Unrated-Directors-Cut-Bowman/dp/B000A9QK96 (1982 words)

	Daredevil Movie & Elektra Movie News - Jennifer Garner Elektra Pictures
		It was at Columbia that Murdock fell in love with Elektra Natchios, the daughter of a Greek ambassador.
		The Daredevil movie, starring Ben Affleck was a huge success in 2003, so much so that it spun off a sequel in Elektra, starring Jennifer Garner.
		If there is a Daredevil 2 movie, you can be sure that we will know about it and report the comic book movie news right here.
	www.daredevil-movies.com (1249 words)

	Elektra (2005) Movie Review - RopeofSilicon.com
		If you had to choose between Elektra and Daredevil, Elektra would be the film to see, but that isn't really saying much as an early January release date is explained as this one fails to ever get started.
		Suddenly her next target is a father and daughter duo forcing her to make a choice and suffer emotions she didn't know she could feel, which could ultimately pit her in a battle against the ruthless crime syndicate...
		When Elektra isn't kicking ass she is dreaming of a troubled past or just doing a lot of talking that no one wants to listen to as the story never really seems to come together, which is unfortunate because this one could have been good.
	www.ropeofsilicon.com /review.php?id=220 (235 words)

	Almost Fabulous Movie Reviews: Elektra (2005) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Synopsis: Elektra has a new lease on life and a new job as an assassin.
		But when her latest targets turn out to be a single father and his young daughter, she ends up fighting to protect them instead.
		Elektra was a little off from her comic book persona but the houses and camera angles were comic book perfect.
	www.almostfabulous.com /movies/reviews/2005/06/001047.php (153 words)

	Salon.com Arts & Entertainment \| "Elektra"
		A couple of nifty images and physical action that's filmed with clarity raise hopes -- in the opening sequence, at least -- that "Elektra" might be a distraction from the January doldrums.
		When she enters the lair of the target she's stalking, we see her as he does, reflected from head to toe in a glass of scotch he's holding up to the firelight.
		There's an emphasis in the opening on Elektra as a whispery presence.
	archive.salon.com /ent/movies/review/2005/01/14/elektra/index.html (237 words)

	Elektra (2005) - Movie connections (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Relentless: The Making of 'Elektra' (2005) (V) - making of the movie
		- Shows clip of police rushing to revive Elektra near climax of Daredevil.
		"Siskel & Ebert & the Movies: The Worst of 2005" (2006)
	imdb.com /rg/title-tease/movieconnections/title/tt0357277/movieconnections (131 words)

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