An assassin who has already died once takes a contract, refuses to complete it, and ends up protecting the two people she was sent to kill.
Jennifer Garner returns from Daredevil in a film that has almost nothing else to do with it. Elektra Natchios was killed in that film and has been revived here by a blind martial arts master called Stick, which the film treats as background rather than as a question. She is a contract killer with a reputation, and the story turns on the moment she looks at her targets and stops.
The Hand are the antagonists: a syndicate of ninja mercenaries who want the girl she was sent to kill, because the girl is what they call a Treasure and so, it turns out, was Elektra.
Show detailsIt did not end there
Garner played the character again nineteen years later, in Deadpool & Wolverine in 2024. A film widely treated as a dead end turned out to have a thread still attached to it, which is worth remembering before writing off anything else in this section.
How it connects
Watching these first makes this one land.
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Released: January 14, 2005