{"id":84124,"date":"2025-08-22T03:41:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T03:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/84124\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T03:41:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T03:41:11","slug":"a-breathlessly-boring-11-rated-marvel-disaster-has-become-a-netflix-hit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/84124\/","title":{"rendered":"A “breathlessly boring” 11%-rated Marvel disaster has become a Netflix hit"},"content":{"rendered":"

A two-decades-old Marvel<\/a> flop has become an unexpected Netflix<\/a> hit.<\/p>\n

Elektra acts as a spin-off to the original Daredevil movie, featuring Jennifer Garner as the titular assassin as she tries to protect a man and his prodigious daughter from another assassin.<\/p>\n

The movie has found a new lease of life on Netflix US, becoming the 7th most-watched film last week with 5.1 million views and 8.2 million hours viewed.<\/p>\n

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Elektra was roundly slated by critics, and currently sits at a dismal 11% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes<\/a>, with Rolling Stone<\/a> calling it a “breathlessly boring spinoff” in their 1-star review.<\/p>\n

Time Out<\/a> further suggested it was a “none too Marvel-lous spin-off”, while The Daily Telegraph<\/a> labelled it “studio dross of the lowest grade”.<\/p>\n

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However, it wasn’t all bad, with Chicago Reader writing: “This doesn’t exactly set the world on fire, but I was charmed by its old-fashioned storytelling, which is refreshingly free of archness, self-consciousness, or Kill Bill-style wisecracks.”<\/p>\n

The movie didn’t fare much better at the box office though, making only $56.9 million on a reported budget of between $43 million and $65 million.<\/p>\n

Garner reprised her role as Elektra in last year’s Deadpool & Wolverine, which became the second highest-grossing movie of 2024.<\/p>\n

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If you fancy catching more Garner noughties nostalgia on streaming, her hit romcom 13 Going on 30 was added to Netflix earlier this year<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The movie follows a 13-year-old girl who makes a wish to be grown up, and then wakes up to find herself a 30-year-old magazine editor.<\/p>\n

Elektra is available to stream now on Netflix US and UK.<\/p>\n

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Sam is a freelance reporter and sub-editor who has a particular interest in movies<\/a>, TV<\/a> and music. After completing a journalism Masters at City University, London, Sam joined Digital Spy as a reporter, and has also freelanced for publications such as NME<\/a> and Screen International<\/a>. \u00a0Sam, who also has a degree in Film, can wax lyrical about everything from Lord of the Rings<\/a> to Love Is Blind<\/a>, and is equally in his element crossing every ‘t’ and dotting every ‘i’ as a sub-editor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A two-decades-old Marvel flop has become an unexpected Netflix hit. Elektra acts as a spin-off to the original…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84125,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[379,42361,381,96,1156,2839,42360,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-84124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-content-type-news","tag-contentid-f0fd1058-bf03-4327-929a-c4afb0ad346d","tag-displaytype-standard-article","tag-entertainment","tag-locale-gb","tag-movies","tag-shorttitle-11-rated-marvel-disaster-becomes-netflix-hit","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84124\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}