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Electra is Back from the Dead...
In Daredevil Electra died but for her own movie the creators are trying to bring her back. How they want to do it and why Buffy seems to be a good model for that... |
 "What's your name?" our heroine is asked in the wannabe comic book franchise film Elektra. "Elektra," she replies, laconically.
"Like the Greek tragedy. Your parents must have had a sense of humour," muses Mark Miller (Goran Visnijc), father of a transcendent 13-year-old girl whose aura holds the key to the future of some damn thing or another.
"No ... " she says sardonically, "they didn't."
Well, of course they didn't. Nobody in this film does. Why would it be funny anyway to name your daughter after a mythic Greek girl with a father complex? Naming your kid Apple, now that's funny.
When it comes to transferring Marvel Comics heroes to the screen, gloom has definitely been the death of good intentions (The Hulk, Daredevil). And in any scene in which butt isn't kicked, Elektra (Jennifer Garner) sits there like a depressed lox.
Of course, as any Buffy fan knows, being dead and then brought back to life usually leaves you depressed. And dead is where we left the character of Elektra at the end of the woeful Daredevil (starring Garner's beau Ben Affleck). But here we find that our heroine has been revived by an ambitious Asian sect of evil mystics called The Hand (from whence came the expression "Talk to the hand," I'm guessing). In gratitude, we learn she has become a high-priced hit-person in The Hand's pocket.
 That is, until they send her to an island to await the identity of her next victims. There are only two other people on the island, Miller and his daughter Abby. But for some reason, we have to sit through a half-hour of morose flashbacks for her to find out they are the targets and for her to betray the Hand.
Elektra soon finds the girl is The Treasure, the "chosen one" of The Hand's legend. Why did The Hand want her killed, when later Hand-boss Kirigi (Will Yun Lee) announces she is to be trained for a life of evil? It's an unanswered question, right up there with, "How does Elektra sneak up on people dressed as she is in red leather Frederick's of Hollywood lingerie?" And "Why does a guy named Mark Miller have a Croatian accent?"
So it's Elektra, her sensei Stick (Terence Stamp) and his minions vs. Kirigi and his demons, including the rocky Stone (Bob Sapp), the life-sapping Typhoid (Nattasia Malthe) and Tattoo (Chris Ackerman), whose tattoos turn into animals.
The magical fight FX have their moments, and director Rob Bowman (Reign of Fire) knows how to light a bad mood. But frankly, I appreciated the houselights more.
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