I can't believe all of the positive comments on this movie! It's terrible! A complete betrayal of the character Frank Miller created, and here's how: 1) Elektra would never befriend anyone, and would certainly have no qualms over killing someone JUST BECAUSE HE GAVE HER DINNER.
2) Not enough people die. For a movie that's supposed to be about the greatest assassin in the world, this movie has a surprisingly low body count.
3) Elektra would never, EVER let her agent talk down to her. I kept waiting for her to gut that slimy little bitch and hang him up by his intestines, but she never did. This is all disregarding the fact that Elektra would probably never have an agent in the first place, but if she did, she'd be the boss, not him.
4) She cries like a little baby. Elektra does have feelings, yes, but they are buried under a skin so thick that practically nothing can cause them to surface, certainly not STICK BEING MEAN TO HER. What a wuss.
I'm sure there's more, but I could only stand to watch half of this awful movie.
And I can understand the need to tweak a character, and sometimes even change her completely, for the sake of the movie. Some things just don't work all that well on screen. But even disregarding all the changes made to Elektra's personality and watching the movie as a self-contained entity, it's still terrible. It's boring and insultingly stupid, and I can't help but think that sticking to the comic book could only have improved it.
2) Not enough people die. For a movie that's supposed to be about the greatest assassin in the world, this movie has a surprisingly low body count.
3) Elektra would never, EVER let her agent talk down to her. I kept waiting for her to gut that slimy little bitch and hang him up by his intestines, but she never did. This is all disregarding the fact that Elektra would probably never have an agent in the first place, but if she did, she'd be the boss, not him.
4) She cries like a little baby. Elektra does have feelings, yes, but they are buried under a skin so thick that practically nothing can cause them to surface, certainly not STICK BEING MEAN TO HER. What a wuss.
I'm sure there's more, but I could only stand to watch half of this awful movie.
And I can understand the need to tweak a character, and sometimes even change her completely, for the sake of the movie. Some things just don't work all that well on screen. But even disregarding all the changes made to Elektra's personality and watching the movie as a self-contained entity, it's still terrible. It's boring and insultingly stupid, and I can't help but think that sticking to the comic book could only have improved it.