Elektra (2005)
Directed by Rob Bowman
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.
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Then again, Sony Pictures CEO Tom Rothman previously oversaw production on the lowest common denominator nerd baubles of yesteryear like X-Men Origins: Wolverine while producer Avi Arad was producer on train wrecks of that era like Elektra and Ghost Rider, so perhaps it isn’t so surprising Kraven the Hunter feels like a throwback to the days where “fan service” was something done through gritted teeth.
If you told me that “Elektra” was the only superhero movie that Chandor had ever seen before directing this one, I would believe you without hesitation — if only because it might help to explain why all of the CGI in “Kraven” looks the same as it would have in 2005.
The screenplay is by Mark Steven Johnson—the fellow responsible for Daredevil (2003) and Elektra (2005).
Two years later he was the writer and executive producer for Elektra, which got hit by a huge critical bus.
Although he claims to be a huge comic book fanatic, filmmaker Mark Steven Johnson (Elektra, Daredevil) seems to have no good idea on how to create a quality superhero flick.
Writer-director Mark Steven Johnson was also responsible for "Daredevil" (which looked better to me in 2003 than it does in hindsight and is reviled by other comic fans), and he wrote the soporific "Elektra."
Eva Mendes and Sam Elliott fill in as love interest and mentor, respectively, and director Mark Steven Johnson improves on his last outing, Elektra, but without Cage, he’d have little more than an infernal flame-out.
The old and stubbornly held Hollywood belief that a superhero movie starring a woman would flop was bolstered by some painful evidence: the critical and financial failures of Supergirl (1984), Tank Girl (1995), Catwoman (2004), and Elektra (2005).
Directed by Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck, “Captain Marvel” marks the first female-led entry to the MCU (at least in the modern era, all due respect to Jennifer Garner’s “Elektra”).
Lejos quedan los años zozobrantes del cambio de milenio, cuando títulos como Hulk (2003), Daredevil (2003), Catwoman (2004), Los 4 Fantásticos (2005) o Elektra (2005) aunaban palos de ciego, efectos digitales cuestionables y ningún sentido del ridículo en sus traslaciones de los personajes de las viñetas.
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The press has already reported that Jennifer Garner and Dafne Keen have reprised their respective roles as Elektra and X-23/Laura.
But our intrepid protagonists also find outcasts who become allies against Cassandra—a “nice” Deadpool (played by Reynolds too), a doggy Deadpool, and more characters from former movies and comics, like Jennifer Garner’s Elektra (the others will remain unnamed here, so as not to spoil the surprise).
Why did they bother to bring back Jennifer Garner’s Elektra for all of five minutes? I’m not sur…
I won't spoil all of them, but I will mention that when Jennifer Garner's Elektra pops up, this naturally affords the movie to make a Ben Affleck crack, which, of course, it does.