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When a movie makes you wish you were watching Halle Berry in "Catwoman," something is most definitely wrong.
What are people saying?
What are critics saying?
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Los Angeles Times by Carina Chocano
No fun at all.
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ReelViews by James Berardinelli
One of the least effective comic book-to-movie stories to have come along in the past few years. Without a viable screenplay, there's nowhere for the character to go, and no way to avoid making her look silly.
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Charlotte Observer by Lawrence Toppman
Watching this is like sitting by a pinsetter at a bowling alley. That's too bad, because the picture had potential.
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Entertainment Weekly by Lisa Schwarzbaum
Just as all regular models can't be supermodels, so all action chicks can't be superheroines. Elektra Natchios turns out to be walled off rather than mysteriously alluring; blank rather than deep.
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The New York Times by Manohla Dargis
No question, the film's best special effect is Ms. Garner, especially when she's in costume.
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Washington Post by Michael O'Sullivan
What it suffers from most is the sense of offhand storytelling that lies halfway between creative laziness and cost-cutting sloppiness.
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Chicago Tribune by Michael Wilmington
Devotees of awful filmmaking can't go wrong with this one.
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Philadelphia Inquirer by Steven Rea
"Kill Bill" without irony, and without Quentin Tarantino's flair for cool dialogue and chop-socky action (and without Uma Thurman, for that matter), Elektra is a pretty-looking, pretty dull adaptation of the Marvel Comic about a dishy, deadly assassin.