So what does lady superhero Elektra have that all the other prodigiously gifted fighters of crime do not?

Well, she's mastered the Far Eastern skill of Feng Shui. She's also got herself an agent. And her name suggests she may be a power utility.

Apart from that it's business as usual - a sleight of hand with flying knives, limitless energy, disdain for gravity and a nice line in bizarre costumes (a red bustier-come-croptop if you must know).

After being coaxed back to life (she died in the movie Daredevil) by blind martial arts master Stick (Terence Stamp), Elektra (Garner) returns to being a lethal killer-for-hire.

The next job takes her to a remote island where she's contracted to take out a father and daughter on the run from ninja assassins known as The Hand.

However, she senses something is wrong when the pair - Mark (Visnjic) and Abby (Kristen Prout) - reveal their true identity (and she begins to fancy dad).

Soon, the three of the them are dodging the attentions of a vicious assassination squad sent out by The Hand to complete unfinished business.

Quite how out to lunch this dumb action caper is comes early on when we find Elektra scrubbing the floors of her gaff "to remove any DNA".

From then on it's a patchy affair: Garner never looks comfortable in the role (and who would, with all that highly strung velcro) and Stamp merely gives a dumbed down variation of his triumphant General Zod in Superman.

Unintentional highlight of the film is Tezza in forage cap abseiling from a tree to rescue Elektra from an appointment with death.

The villains are a pretty sorry bunch - a femme fatale who withers anything living around and Kirigi, a master swordsman who wouldn't have lasted into the second reel of Kill Bill.

The name would suggest a high-voltage cracker sparking with energy…but what you get is a low-watt also ran.

This Elektra ain't going to blow a fuse.

Tim Evans