Elektra (2005)

Director:

Rob Bowman

Writers (WGA):

Mark Steven Johnson (motion picture characters) and
Frank Miller (comic book characters) ...

Release Date:

14 January 2005 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Adventure | Fantasy

Tagline:

She's the last thing that stands between good and evil.

Plot:

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.

Plot Keywords:

Assassin | Resurrection | Heroine | Supernatural | Action Heroine

Awards:

2 nominations

Cast

Jennifer Garner	...	Elektra
Goran Visnjic	...	Mark Miller
Kirsten Prout	...	Abby Miller
Will Yun Lee	...	Kirigi
Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa	...	Roshi
Terence Stamp	...	Stick
Natassia Malthe	...	Typhoid
Bob Sapp	...	Stone
Chris Ackerman	...	Tattoo
Edson T. Ribeiro	...	Kinkou
Colin Cunningham	...	McCabe
Hiro Kanagawa	...	Meizumi
Mark Houghton	...	Bauer
Laura Ward	...	Young Elektra
Kurt Max Runte	...	Nikolas Natchios

Also Known As:

Elektra (Canada: French title)
Elektra (Argentina) (Peru) (Spain) [es]
Elektra (Brazil) [pt]
Elektra (Finland) [fi]
Elektra (Germany) [de]
Elektra (Greece) [el]
Elektra (Turkey: Turkish title) [tr]

MPAA:

Rated PG-13 for action violence.

Runtime:

97 min | 100 min (director's cut)

Country:

Canada | USA

Language:

English | Japanese

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

DTS | Dolby Digital | SDDS

Certification:

UK:12A (original rating) | Netherlands:16 (video rating) | Taiwan:PG-12 | USA:PG-13 (certificate #41331) | USA:Unrated (director's cut) | Iceland:12 (video rating) | Iceland:14 (theatrical rating) | Malaysia:18SG | South Korea:15 | Denmark:11 | UK:12 (video rating) | Canada:14A (Alberta/Manitoba) | Canada:G (Quebec) | Canada:PG (British Columbia/Nova Scotia/Ontario) | Japan:U | Argentina:13 | Australia:M | Brazil:14 | Chile:14 | Finland:K-15 | France:U | Germany:12 | Hong Kong:IIA | Ireland:12A | Peru:14 | Singapore:PG | Switzerland:14 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:14 (canton of Vaud) | Switzerland:14 (canton of Zurich)

Filming Locations:

Capilano River Regional Park, North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Company:

Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation

Trivia:

McCabe has no comic book counterpart. However, there was a character named Nina McCabe, first introduced by comic book writer Peter Milligan in the first, short-lived Elektra ongoing series. Nina's father was killed in front of Elektra and Elektra sort of adopted her, becoming her sensei. The character of Nina is pretty similar to Abby.

Goofs:

Continuity: In one scene, Stone throws his wooden club to Elektra. In the next shot, he attacks Abby with his club which he didn't get it back.

Quotes:

Elektra: I like your bracelet, by the way. Do you know what those are? Here. They're warrior beads. They're from Indonesia. Centuries ago, you had to be the best fighter in your village to earn them.
Abby Miller: Wow. I bought 'em off eBay.

Movie Connections:

Featured in "HBO First Look: The Making of 'Elektra' (#12.1)" (2004)

Soundtrack:

In The Light

A film that is underrated and great.

Elektra is probably one of the most underrated films this year. Jennifer Garner is sexy, exciting and great as Elektra and Terrance Stamp is great as Stick. While the film seemed rushed, it was entertaining and fun to watch. Several scenes even had me wondering "what's going to happen?" And aren't we supposed to get into films? The action and fight scenes are just spectacular, and Jennifer shows her amazing fighting techniques throughout. The film does suffer from being too short, though. It should've gone longer into back-story But overall, I have to give it up to Rob Bowman for making a film that is fun, exciting and just plain entertaining. I totally recommend this action-packed thrill ride of a film.