ELEKTRA - fying?

Advantages: Worthwhile watching. Only 80 minutes of actual film.
Disadvantages: Supernatural Element.

... Elektra Director: Rob Bowman Release Date: 2005 Runtime: 97 mins Approx Certificate: 12. The Plot. After her 'death' in Daredevi, Elektra Natchios (Jennifer Garner), is revived by a blind man called Stick. She spends a while training with them, but is kicked out of the dojo, due to a reason unknown to her. She becomes a proffesional assassin and kills people for money. And is sent away on business to kill some, at the time unkown, targets. She goes to enter the place she is staying, and sees some shadows moving about. Who she finds is a girl called Amy (Kirsten Prout) who is her new neighbour. After a lecture about breaking into people homes, Elektra meets the girls father, Mark Miller (Goran Visnjic) and is invited by the daughter to go to their house for Christmas dinner. When the identity of her...

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Play the Game

Advantages: Entertaining subject, engagingly written, very amusing in parts.
Disadvantages: Loses interest towards the end.

...Want to make yourself irresistible to women? Fancy being a master of seduction? This book is the story of a man who learnt how, who learnt the secrets of the Game. Neil Strauss wasn't exactly your prototypical loveless loser, but then he wasn't terribly irresistible either. An everyman of the dating game, with ever-declining hair and glasses, the initial change involved a makeover into the shiny-bonced, sharply goateed figure gracing the cover of The Game. The physical transformation, however, was only the first and the easiest of the alterations Strauss would make. Months later, he was living in the daddy of bachelor pads, hanging out with models, dating a string of beautiful women and chatting up Britney Spears. Not bad for a balding journalist on the less youthful side of thirty. It's certainly an enticing prospect as...

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Elktra-fried

Advantages: Erm
Disadvantages: Boring, Slow, Not much happens

...Nobody really wants a sequel to a mediocre film. By the same token nobody wants a spin off from a mediocre film. But this is what we have with Elektra; apparently some people liked the character in the Daredevil movie despite being nothing special. So now Jennifer Garner brings her Alias combat skills to the big screen by returning to the role of Elektra. Having been resurrected Elektra is trained by a blind tutor called Stick to be more badass than before. When Elektra takes on an assassination job she finds herself targeting a young girl and her father. They are wanted by a mysterious group known as 'The Hand' because the girl has some powers or something. This all leads to a bit of kung fu action where people have clearly been watching too many Asian films. The thing with Elektra is that it's incredibly weak on the story front...

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Lover, Assasain, Enigma

Advantages: Jennifer garner, Fight Scenes, Outfits, Baddies, Great Script, Not Your Usual Action Flick, Good DVD Package
Disadvantages: Not Enough Action, To Keep Very Very Easily Bored People Happy

...Elektrafying Ever since I first watched Daredevil, I was really impressed with both the character of Elektra and Jennifer Garner playing her. The whole movie was screaming out for an Elektra spin off, but when she was killed off at the end, the future looked bleak, but alas, here our heroine is again! After the events of Daredevil, Elektra's lifeless body was collected by Stick, a master in the ancient arts. After a lot of work, incantations and magic, our heroine is brought back to life. Life will never be the same for her or anyone she knows?. A couple of years later, she is an assassin, killing for money. We have already seen her slaying a target. She boasts an impressive array of powers, leaping, kicking, stabbing and running her way through out the whole exercise. While clearing away the evidence of her massacre, McCabe her...

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You Really Kill People For A Living?

Advantages: It's only an hour and a half long. Special Effects and fight scenes. Jennifer Garner in the Elektra outfit
Disadvantages: The Script was simply awful. The acting was well below par, Could have maybe used a big name baddie

...daughter, she falls for him and decides to help them rather than kill them. The Hand still wants him dead and as Elektra has failed to complete the job they send someone else to do it for them. So now Elektra must protect him and his daughter and prevent the hand from getting to them and killing them. So they go on the run and Elektra turns to her old mentor for help, but will he help her? Can she stop The Hand? Well you will have to watch it and find out. I'll admit that I didn't go into this film with high expectations. Off the back of Daredevil I suspected I'd find this to be just as bad as Daredevil. In fact I was very wrong it was even worse. It seems to fit into the comic book to Hollywood role call of awful films and somewhere around the bottom rung. There are elements taken from the more successful elements of Blade and X Men...

Andy.mack 25.04.2005 · Read review
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Less than Electrifying

Advantages: Some nice effects and a couple of decent fights
Disadvantages: The shoddy script and sub-par performances

...Having been left for dead at the end of ?Daredevil?, Elektra is resurrected and taught the way of the Kimaguri by mentor Stick. But unable to stick to the rules, she is dismissed from his school and goes to work as a freelance assassin. The problems begin when she is sent to kill a father and daughter, only to fall for her mark? Director Rob Bowman returns after the commercial disappointment of ?Reign of Fire? with this spin-off of the Marvel franchise. Unfortunately, he has learnt little from the shortcomings of his last movie and is destined to repeat the same mistakes; namely too many characters, not enough characterisation and too many plot holes. I was expecting good things from this film; Elektra was the most interesting character in ?Daredevil? and Jennifer Garner has proved engaging in ?Alias? and ?13 Going on 30...

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More Shocking than Elektrafying

Advantages: Good costumes
Disadvantages: Ham acting

...From the moment I knew Elektra was coming to the big screen, I eagerly awaited it's arrival. From the outset it was clear to see I was going to be disappointed. Jennifer Garner (from tv's "alias") plays the indomitable Elektra, a highly trained fighter and assassin who, after being extradicted from her training camp and sensai, begins to get a grip of herself and life on the outside world. Elektra is hired to kill a man and his daughter - the details are highly classified, but this doesnt bother Elektra. Her reputation precedes her as a fighter and assassin, her calling card sometimes no more than a whisper in her victim's ear. Her choice of weapon are sai, an ancient chinese blade forged from a single piece of metal and incorporating a long central blade and 2 smaller supplementary blades that protrude from the base...

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The Game - About The Players

Advantages: Brilliant! Easy to understand, see male perspectives, great laugh!
Disadvantages: could be slighlty downputting to some women

...This book had my mind racing with excitement and belly aching with laughter! Neil Strauss takes on the dating world with the help of an online community, which explores the science of picking up women. The science is based on a series of theories which, supposedly, when tested attract women to men such as Neil Strauss. My favorite of these is the "peacock theory", (I am laughing writing this) this shows that an extravagant garment of clothing such as a bright large feather bower hat or very bright silk shirt, no matter how ridiculous, will draw attention to you as you enter a club which attracts women! The book cleverly explores these theories in a humorous and manly way! The whole story is narrated by Neil Strauss and so it is easy to envelop yourself and understand his perspective, the characters are likable and the story line...

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A must-buy for all guys!

Advantages: An engaging, original tale of a clever and likable man into a fascinating world of sexual potential.
Disadvantages: Would only appeal to guys.

...I bought this because the blurb on the back made it seem like an original and intriguing story of how an average joe can become a superstar and then be brought crashing back down to Earth simply by falling for a girl who's got his number. It turned out however to be nothing like I had imagined, and was I have to say a pleasant surprise. This isn't a work of fiction, but in fact more of an autobiography of an incredible 2 year journey of self-discovery for Mr Strauss. He starts the book as a normal average writer wandering through his life until his publisher asks him to research a document on the web called "The Layguide". Which essentially turns out to be the collective writings of various pick-up artists on how to attract girls. This opens his eyes to a world of potential he never knew existed, and he begins thinking that he's been...

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Everyone should read this book!

Advantages: Great writing, the story just gets more crazy as it goes on
Disadvantages: Lots of abbreviations, but there's a key in the back.

...A lot of people are a bit apprehensive about buying this book, as it sounds a bit like a self help book at first. Truth be told it is far from it. Neil Strauss is a journalist, who after becoming frustrated at his friend's abilities to pick up women, decided to take a look into the world of the Pick-up artists. These are what you could call proffessionals at picking up women. Now, while most people might say to themselves "Hmmm, that's interesting, an online community dedicated to picking up girls" and leave it at that, Neil Strauss decided to take an incredibly giant leap into the community. He befriends all sorts of pick up artists, from the now infamous Mystery, who is pretty messed up in reality but is incredibly good at "sarging", the term they use for picking up girls. Mystery is a wannabe magician. Strauss also meets some...

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