Elektra is expelled from the training compound because of her inability to let go of her rage and fear of seeing her mother's killer as a child.

Elektra spares them and leaves, but returns in time to protect them from assassins sent by The Hand, a crime syndicate of ninja mercenaries.

Roshi, master of The Hand, learns of the failed attempt and permits his son Kirigi to lead a new team of assassins to kill Elektra and return with Abby, referred to as "The Treasure".

Elektra flees with Mark and Abby through a secret underground exit to a forest, while McCabe sacrifices himself to buy them time.

She guesses that Stick set up the hit on Mark and Abby in order to test Elektra's propensity for compassion.

After selling the rights of Elektra to New Line Cinema, Frank Miller was hired to pen a screenplay based on the graphic novel of the same name.

Director Oliver Stone later signed on to direct and wanted volleyball player, model, and actress Gabrielle Reece to star as Elektra.

[citation needed] Garner reportedly did not want to do the film and only did it because she was legally required due to contractual obligations from Daredevil.

[8] Ben Affleck reprised his role as Matt Murdock / Daredevil in a cameo appearance, but it was cut from the final film.

[9] Director Rob Bowman knew going into the project that the production time was going to be short and they would be limited in what they could achieve, but thought that critics would appreciate what he was able to do with the relatively small $43 million budget.

He said shooting and preparation made for very long days, and as little as four hours sleep a night, and that he used "every trick in the book I had to pull that movie off in that short amount of time.

A score album was released by Varèse Sarabande containing selections of Christophe Beck's original music from the film.

[17] Domestically the total gross was $24,409,722, at the time the lowest for a film featuring a Marvel Comics character since Howard the Duck.

The site's critical consensus reads: "Jennifer Garner inhabits her role with earnest gusto, but Elektra's tone-deaf script is too self-serious and bereft of intelligent dialogue to provide engaging thrills.

"[24] Brian Lowry of Variety writes: "Elektra proves no more than fitfully satisfying, a character-driven superhero yarn whose flurry of last-minute rewriting shows in a disjointed plot.

"[25] Claudia Puig of USA Today writes "[Garner's] grace and mystical abilities make for a lonely burden, and we are supposed to feel her pain.

[26] Paul Byrnes of The Sydney Morning Herald explained that "if the film isn't as bad as some others in the comics-to-cinema genre (Halle Berry's Catwoman has rather lowered the bar), that's not to say it's good.

"[27] Jonathan Rosenbaum of the Chicago Reader writes: "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.

[32] In March 2005, producer Avi Arad told investors that Marvel had made a mistake rushing Elektra into release.

[33] In an email released because of the Sony Pictures hack, Marvel Entertainment CEO Ike Perlmutter cited Elektra as an example of an unprofitable female led superhero film.

"[34][35] In 2016, Katharine Trendacosta at io9 reviewed the film and called it "somehow so much worse than you remember" and said that the version of Elektra in Netflix's Daredevil could only be an improvement.

[36] Elektra appears in the Marvel's Netflix television series Daredevil and The Defenders, portrayed by Élodie Yung.