"Not Your Parents’ Wonder Woman"
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What You Need To Know:
ELEKTRA, based on the Marvel comic books by Frank Miller, is reminiscent of earlier Marvel adaptations like DAREDEVIL, BLADE and THE INCREDIBLE HULK. On a technical level, the film is well done. Jennifer Garner is believable, but the continuous battles are numbing, and the villains are stock comic book characters. Also, unlike other Marvel projects such as SPIDER-MAN and SPIDER-MAN 2, which are more comfortable with portraying moral themes in a positive light, ELEKTRA teaches pagan mysticism and Eastern religions, and characters blatantly employ demonic protection. Parents and fans of Garner’s other works also should be forewarned that ELEKTRA contains very strong comic book violence and some foul language.
Content:
(PaPa, OO, FRFR, Ho, LL, VVV, S, N, A, MM) Prevalent mystical pagan worldview with strong occult elements and false religious notions about a rage-filled comic book female assassin who experiences a change of heart and helps victims in danger; homosexual element when woman kisses another woman to poison her; three strong profanities and eight obscenities; extensive martial arts/comic book action violence, multiple fight scenes: students fighting with wooden staffs, character fights villain with samurai weapons, guns fired at character, protagonist kills assassins, shotgun fired at villain with no effect, man shown dying of broken neck, man stabbed in stomach, implied beheading, woman villain killed by thrown weapon, several villains killed in explosion, child finds mother dead and sees demon, some blood shown, tense/scary scene as girl is suffocated by snakes, foresight shows man attacked by wolves, girl screams as glass breaks, startling demon found; no explicit sexual content, but some kissing and woman kisses woman to poison her; heroine wears skimpy (unrealistic) outfit in fight scene, upper male nudity with tattoos shown repeatedly and brief cleavage shown; some wine drinking; no smoking; and, hero meditates to see future, antagonists use demons to fight for them, mentor character uses Eastern religion to bring woman back from dead, adversaries use demons to gain knowledge, demons pursue hero, character punished for excessive anger and violence, breaking and entering condemned, and relationships mended as characters grow.
More Detail:
In ELEKTRA, Jennifer Garner (13 GOING ON 30, television’s ALIAS) plays Elektra Natchios, a top female assassin and mercenary. Her latest “assignment” is the murder of Mark Miller (E.R.’s Goran Visnjic) and his daughter, Abby (played by newcomer Kirsten Prout). However, Elektra gets to know the daughter and cannot shake off the connection they have when the time comes to kill them. She instead helps Mark and Abby to escape, and protects them as demon-powered assassins are sent to finish the job. Eventually, she must overcome the villainous head of these assassins.
Jennifer Garner is believable as Elektra, and on a technical level, the film is well done. Fight scenes are executed smoothly, but the continuous battles are numbing. To further mire the film in comic book clichés, villains are pulled from the standard quiver of comic-book-stock-character-evildoers, and the movie suffers for it.
Even more unbelievable, unfortunately, is the transformation Elektra goes through while with Mark and Abby Miller. After years of stoic, solitary existence and murder, one afternoon with Abby Miller, and Elektra is suddenly fully in touch with her inner child. This startlingly quick emotional thaw pulls hapless viewers out of the film. In another scene, mere moments after Elektra has decided that Mark and Abby are more trouble than they’re worth, she backtracks and throws her lot in with them, for reasons that are never fully explained. Moviegoers will tire of being asked to suspend disbelief and will be disappointed that this story never leaves the comic book realm.
ELEKTRA contains a mixture of misleading worldviews and false religious beliefs, including strong occult content. Elektra is told by her mentor that he “knew she was good, [she] just had to see it for herself.” Also, while being encouraged to do the right thing, she is told that “the good was inside her,” and “only the pure” succeed as she does. These statements belie the fact that people are fallen, and only through the saving grace of Christ are good things possible.
ELEKTRA also contains very strong comic-book violence and some foul language.
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What you listen to, watch, and read has power. Movieguide® wants to give you the resources to empower the good and the beautiful. But we can’t do it alone. We need your support.
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