I’m not big on comic books, though I do enjoy a good comic book movie, as long as the plot and characters are explained enough that I don’t need to know the comic itself. It’d been a long time since I’d seen Daredevil, which I felt was a sub-par movie to begin with, so I really didn’t remember this Elektra chick or what her deal was. That was my biggest problem throughout the movie. I didn’t really know what was going on with the main character. Aside from a few flashbacks which only spawn more questions than resolutions, the movie didn’t do a good job of informing me of her backstory, either.

I get the fact that Elektra is some ninja killing machine. She’s sent on a mission and told she’ll be contacted in a few days with her targets. While she has down time, she happens to get close to a man and his daughter, who live next door. And of course, she finds out that they are her targets.

It was a cool movie despite the fact that I couldn’t really follow what was going on. I have no inclination or care to find out more about the world of Elektra, but if I did, I’m sure I would have enjoyed this a lot more. This movie got an exceptionally high rating for me considering I could only barely follow along with the plot.