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Friday, August 30, 2013
Elektra
If Daredevil was successful enough to create this spinoff, they should have created a sequel instead. Elektra is a movie that will bore you to tears, there's really nothing going for it to make it worthwhile to watch. The plot is intensely bland and flat, nowhere in the film does any excitement happen, even the fight scenes (of which there is very little) were below average. Once again, the moves are fairly stylized and filled with special effects and a lot of a twisting, turning and jumping around. However, they're not done that well so it's hard to enjoy it and it looks completely fabricated (you will not expect anyone to fight like that in real life). The performances were stale, it's hard to discern any emotion from the characters. The flashbacks of Elektra, supposedly trying to provide some backstory to the character, and create some sort of emotional journey/transition, fails completely. There are too many flashbacks of the same thing, and it breaks up the pace a lot. The character is so different from the one in Daredevil that you can't find any of the similarities. The explanation given in how she came to this predicament is weak. While I wouldn't say that the movie is a complete disaster, it IS boring, a chore to watch and not recommended.