Elektra
- kinetic
- extreme
- epic-stakes
Neutral, breathless, extreme action / fantasy, inventive in texture. Redemptive, epic, measured.
How every film is hand-scored →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.
Our read · Elektra (2005) reads as a neutral, breathless, inventive action · fantasy · adventure entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
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The shape of Elektra
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The reading.
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