Well, where do I begin? This movie certainly didn't surprise me, nor did it disappoint. It was terrible. There are no redeeming qualities in this movie, which is saying something, considering Jennifer Garner (13 Going on 30) is prancing around in a nice tight, red suit for almost 1/3 of the movie. Plus, she kisses, or rather is kissed, by an attractive woman.

The action was choppy and annoying. The story was either old and clichéd, or just plain nonsense. Characters were dropped off without thought. Emotions of the characters were changed for no reasons. They didn't follow a logical direction. I don't even know what audience this movie was made for. I don't think the comic book guys will like it, nor men who like hot chicks. Hell, I don't think Lesbians are going to like it, and this is a movie which has a woman kicking men's asses for an hour and thirty minutes; just a bad, bad movie.

So, this movie starts off by showing us that Elektra, played by Garner, is basically an assassin with no conscience or remorse. Right away this strikes me as odd, because remembering the movie "Daredevil," Elektra came off a good person with some bad luck and issues with the title character whom she thought killed her father. This angry, vengeful, assassin woman was never in that storyline.

Since Elektra died, and was brought back to life for this movie, we can invent a new idea. Anyway, she has only one friend, her agent named McCabe, played by Colin Cunningham (Stealing Christmas), but its obvious she doesn't care about him too much. He gets killed by the bad guys at the end of act two, and not only does Elektra not care, it's as if he never existed.

Elektra gets this contract job for $2 million to kill somebody she doesn't know. She just has to go to this island and wait. However, she is not the only one on the Island. There are two people, a dad and a little girl, who live there. Now, imagine this. You are a billy-badass assassin. You hate…everybody. You catch the little girl in your house stealing a bracelet you pulled off your dead mother when you were a kid. You threaten the little girl, and when she decides to invite you over for Christmas dinner, you forget all of that and say, "Sure." This is because deep down, she reminds you of when you were young.

Now, imagine you're going and having dinner, finding out you like these people--no one else. Of course, the next day, you discover you were hired to kill--you guessed--the father and daughter. Do you? Well, the writer spent a whopping 30 minutes of the movie to establish your toughness and will to kill anybody. So, you, the assassin, MUST. Right? Right? No, you don't. You save them from other bad guys who blah, blah, blah, etc. Horrible!

The action scenes are again shot as if the director used a Sony hand held camera. It was not done well. If you can't do it well, step back, add some background, and let us see the whole fight.

The acting wasn't any good. Although, I will give props to two people. Kirsten Prout (Mindstorm), who played Abbey the little girl, did the best she could to show a scared little girl with unknown powers. It wasn't her fault she wasn't convincing. That blame lies in the script.

I would also like to give a shout out for one of my favorite movie villains of all time--not in this movie, however--General Zod himself, Terrence Stamp (Superman 2). However, he doesn't do a convincing job of being the mentor to Elektra, and the one scene where he can show his badassness wasn't written in the script. So, he shows up wearing an Army hat with a bunch of ninja dudes. Whee! Still, it's General Zod, so I have to give the obligatory "Superman 2" quote whenever he is in any movie, "Son of Jor-El, kneel before Zod!"

Plus, in this movie, he is supposed to be blind, yet you couldn't tell until somebody actually said "Hey, your blind;" more horrible writing.

Speaking of writing and the writer. A Raven Metzner wrote this, and--big surprise--this was his/her first movie script; not a very promising start. There was no character development which made any sense, and the story just plain sucked. The bad guys were all p**sies who couldn't kill a 13 year old, so how intimidated can the audience be.

The director of this movie was Rob Bowman, who did such a bad job, somebody should grab him, grab a baseball, and throw it at his groin area. Doing this, he will be reminded never to direct a crappy movie like "Elektra" again.

Well, that should some things up. Don't waist your time and the $8 to see this movie. Stay home and rent either "Batman" or "X-Men" if you want to see a comic book movie. You could also rent some porn if you want to see women kissing. Just don't watch this.

Brian - the Naked Gun