Elektra the warrior survives a near-death experience, becomes an assassin-for-hire, and tries to protect her two latest targets, a single father and his young daughter, from a group of supernatural assassins.
Elektra shoves Frank Miller's eponymous cold-blooded assassin into a PG-13-friendly adventure.
– Keith Phipps,
AV Club,
6 Oct 2006
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Everything comes back to Garner, though -- and even when the movie takes itself too seriously, thankfully she never does.
– Christy Lemire,
Associated Press,
5 Mar 2007
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This doesn't exactly set the world on fire, but I was charmed by its old-fashioned storytelling, which is refreshingly free of archness, self-consciousness, or Kill Bill-style wisecracks.
– Jonathan Rosenbaum,
Chicago Reader,
5 Mar 2007
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Garner's charms extend beyond the mere physical. Simply by showing up, she makes Elektra far more entertaining than it has a right to be.