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Elektra

Jennifer Garner, Joe Pantoliano, Terence Stamp, Kirstin Prout, Goran Visnjic

Directed by Rob Bowman
Rolling Stone: star rating
5 1
Community: star rating
5 1 0
January 20, 2005

Jennifer Garner should have used an alias instead of putting her name on this breathlessly boring spinoff of Daredevil, the 2003 Marvel Comics misfire in which she co-starred with her new honey, Ben Affleck. Garner is back (Affleck isn't) doing martial-arts kicks as Elektra, this time dressed in skimpy S&M Madonna rejects. The hottie lady in red has returned from the dead in the form of a cranky, listless contract killer redeemed by the love of the little girl (Kirsten Prout) she saves from — oh, who the hell cares?

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