Elektra

A narrative of great ingenuity, scary action sequences, entrail-twisting acting... if you are going to get a kick out of all these, you land a surprise. Elektra is all but electrifying in any way, and falls short of even a mediocre rating.

There are three ways of botching up a movie. Either the story is flimsy and scattered, or the performances are pathetic, or it's lacking in the visual or graphic finery of the day. Elektra scores an A on all these accounts. Though there is a story - the legend of the Marvel Comic character created by Frank Miller - the movie has transformed it....