Elektra (2005)

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Movie
German title Elektra
Original title Elektra
Country of production USA , Canada
original language English
Publishing year 2005
length Theatrical Version: 93 minutes
Director’s Cut : 96 minutes
Age rating FSK 12 (Theatrical Version)
FSK 12 (Director's Cut)

JMK 12
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Director Rob Bowman
script Zak Penn ,
Stu Zichermann ,
Raven Metzner
production Arnon Milchan ,
Gary Foster ,
Avi Arad
music Christophe Beck
camera Bill Roe
cut Kevin Stitt
occupation
chronology

←  Predecessor
Daredevil

Elektra is a comic adaptation from 2005. The film, an offshoot of Daredevil (2003), was shown in German cinemas on March 10, 2005; however, he was only moderately successful.

action

Elektra Natchios works as a contract killer. According to several flashbacks, she was miraculously resuscitated by the blind Sensei Stick (after being killed by Bullseye in Daredevil ) and trained in its academy until she is sent away from there due to the fact that she has a cold heart.

Shortly before Christmas, she went to a house on an island for an assignment to wait for her client to send the target. There she caught Abby, the 13-year-old daughter of Mark Miller, who lives with her father on the island, breaking into the rented house. Later she also gets to know her father, but reacts dismissively. Everyone gets closer at Christmas dinner. However, Elektra quickly disappears after Abby goes to bed and a romantic evening is about to begin.

When she receives the order to kill Mark Miller and his daughter, she sees no problem at first, but feelings arise in her and she breaks off the order. When she is about to leave, she notices two men who were probably sent to kill them after all. She turns around, and in the evening she manages to both save the two and kill one of the two killers. The other killer is knocked out by Elektra. But before she gets any information from him, he kills himself and the three of them can escape.

Roshi, head of the "hand" (an unspecified organization of villains), is then urged by his son Kirigi to let him do the job himself (the job had previously been given to someone else) and Abby (the "treasure") ) to capture. Kirigi and his four warriors, all of whom have supernatural powers, go on the hunt.

Elektra turns to Stick, her old sensei, for help and is once again confronted with her past. After receiving no help from Stick, Elektra, Mark and Abby flee after they are confronted outside the building with "Tattoo", a warrior from Kirigi's troop or his eagle. When Elektra arrives at home, the killers are already on her heels. McCabe, her friend and co-worker, tries to buy her some time by going after the killers with a shotgun; however, he is killed by Kirigi after he has obtained the information about Electra's escape from him.

Elektra escapes with the two of them into the nearby forest, where "Tattoo", which is tattooed all over his body with animals that can break out of him, chases a wolf on them. The first warrior tricked Electra to kill himself. The second is killed by Abby's father, and it turns out that Mark and Abby are not as defenseless as they have led Elektra to believe, and that Abby is a talented fighter.

Typhoid (another member of Kirigi's gang), who has the ability to drain life energy, kisses Elektra, almost killing her. Just when all seems lost, Stick appears with a group of fighters to save the three. Abby is trained by Stick in his school. He also reveals to Elektra that he had sent her away in order to ultimately lead her back on the right track. Elektra decides to face Kirigi and fight him alone. The subsequent fight is said to take place in Electra's parents' house, where, after clearing an ambush, she discovers that it was Kirigi who killed her mother years ago. Spurred on by this, the fight between Elektra and Kirigi takes place in the house. When Elektra is defeated, Abby appears, and together they manage to escape from the house into a hedge labyrinth in the garden.

Tattoo breaks hundreds of snakes from his back, chasing Elektra and Abby. Elektra manages to find and kill Tattoo. She's looking for Abby. In the process, she meets Kirigi, and the fight now ensues, which Elektra can win after remembering a traumatic childhood experience. Immediately afterwards she also kills Typhoid, but too late; Abby has been deprived of all life energies and she dies. Elektra carries her into the house and revives her in the same way that Stick once did her.

Elektra leaves Abby to really live her second life, expressing a wish that Abby should not become like her. In the final scene, Elektra talks to Sensei Stick and realizes that her second life is different from her first, whereupon he tells her that it is sometimes even better.

Reviews

"Trivial spin-off of a heroic universe in which the heroine is at the center of the predictable plot and in uninspired fighting sequences hardly believably has the upper hand."

“A sloppily dressed Garner fights ninjas in a red outfit and also beats up little girls on the side. There is no tension in the film, Terence Stamp's appearance as a Kung Fu master is just plain embarrassing. What a waste to spend money on such a waste product from Hollywood. "

Awards

Jennifer Garner and Natassia Malthe were nominated in the MTV Movie Awards in the category Best Kiss , Kirsten Prout in the Teen Choice Award in the category Best Actress in Action / Adventure / Thriller.

Director's Cut

In 2010, a so-called  Director's Cut  by  Elektra was released  on Blu-ray in Germany. This is cut slightly differently and approx. 3 minutes longer than the theatrical version.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Release certificate for Elektra . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , February 2005 (PDF; test number: 101 626 K).
  2. Release certificate for Elektra . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry, November 2014 (PDF; test number: 101 626-a V).
  3. Age rating for Elektra . Youth Media Commission .
  4. Elektra. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film Service , accessed March 28, 2014 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  5. Elektra at Rotten Tomatoes (English)