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Slideshow: Boring Becomes Elektra

It's not as bad as , but the superhero/martial-arts flick certainly could use a little more juice. By Jason Silverman.
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's fight scenes were built in post-production -- the action is all slow motion and quick cutting. The film is another dreary example of a silly Hollywood presumption: that martial-arts movies don't need proficient martial-arts actors.Courtesy of Doane Gregory/Twentieth Century Fox

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, Jennifer Garner, though sufficiently buff, is less than super. She spends most of the movie stone-faced and rigid, and her most expressive moments consist of squinting and striving for a faraway look.

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are ninjas who claim to be the world's central purveyors of evil.

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Goth girl Typhoid (Natassia Malthe) has a deadly touch, and her confrontation with Elektra, by the way, is pretty good stuff -- ultra-creepy girl-on-girl action.

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Ninja assassin Tattoo (Chris Ackerman) derives his magical powers, as his name implies, from the animals engraved on his skin. He can command these animals to leave his body, take form in the real world and do his bidding.

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