A film that has some good things but it ultimately just doesn't work. I didn't mind the story... or most of the story... but it all felt a bit wonky. I can understand why they cast Ben Affleck in the lead but he's not very good - I think he'd do better at it now but then he was too smarmy. Michael Clarke Duncan is a bit too cartoonish as the baddy. I thought Colin Farrell was an excellent villain and Jennifer Garner fine as Elektra.
But too much of this was off. Why have Affleck stalk Garner?It was unpleasant. Why not get Elektra to do anything cool? She just seemed to have these skills. Why not show a relationship between Elektra and her dad? Why have that annoying journalist character? He doesn't do anything of use? Why not give some plot function to Jon Favreau? Why doesn't Daredevil use his blindness more? Most of the time it seems that he can see - lack of eyesight doesn't seem to hamper him in anyway.
The film felt tampered with and fiddled with. It wasn't particularly well directed. It's not hideous just really, really underwhelming.
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