2005 · action · fantasy · adventure
Elektra
1h 37m2005
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.
Neutral, breathless, extreme action / fantasy, inventive in texture. Redemptive, epic, measured.
- kinetic
- extreme
- epic-stakes
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