Director admits ELEKTRA sucked

As bad as DAREDEVIL was, I actually held out a small amount of hope that ELEKTRA would be cool. After all, it at least featured Jennifer Garner in pre baby-making shape, wearing skimpy costumes and fighting bad guys. Unfortunately, the movie was terrible. There were elements that hinted at coolness, but nothing ever came together. In an interview with Now Playing, ELEKTRA director Rob Bowman basically admits that the movie sucked and goes on to offer a few excuses.

I knew going into the project, because of the short prep, because I only had Jennifer for her hiatus from Alias, which was ten weeks, and [because of] the short postproduction, that we weren’t going to be able to make SPIDER-MAN. We didn’t have the time to make SPIDER-MAN. We didn’t have the time to make DAREDEVIL! That was OK, because I was not making a movie about size and spectacle, about giant visual effects. The best movies are stories about people and their inner struggles - those are my favorite films. I finally said, ‘Let’s not get down about the fact that we don’t have the time to make BATMAN or SPIDER-MAN. Let’s embrace what we do have, which is a very interesting character.’

Unfortunately, they weren’t true to the character of ELEKTRA because the real Elektra would have killed off that annoying kid and her dad thus making it a very cool movie.