Netflix: Only a week left to see this Marvel movie its star didn’t want to do (and he was right!)

There are roles that leave you with a bitter taste. For Jennifer Garner, it will be Elektra, the Marvel character she played twice. It was 2003 when she appeared with the man who would become her companion – Ben Affleck – in the comic book adaptation of Daredevil. Without much success, the film scored decent enough for Fox Studios to begin work on a spin-off centered on a criminal who falls under the spell of a Hell’s Kitchen lawyer.

Elektra hits our screens two years later, and it’s an industrial disaster that barely manages to recoup its $48 million investment. Viewers on AlloCiné are not kind: with a rating of 1.5/5, this is one of Jennifer Garner’s worst performances according to them.

And he seems to be fine with that. The project was also unstable before filming: the cast and crew had only 10 weeks to prepare this film, taking advantage of the break between the two seasons of Alias. The tight timing, the training required for the actress to master Elektra’s fighting techniques, and the sloppy script made them better.

In Interview given Michael Vartan, the actor’s former companion and Alias ​​co-star, revealed shortly after the film’s release: “I heard it was terrible. Jennifer called to tell me. He was forced to do this because of Daredevil, it was in his contract.

If the actor, now 51, has never publicly said he regrets making the film, At least he made it famous That he was disappointed and that the results would be better after Kevin Feige came to Marvel: “It’s a shame because everything has gone up a notch since he came in: the writing, the directing, the humor… I haven’t had that experience.”

Jennifer Garner doesn’t seem to hold a grudge against Marvel, as the actress has agreed to reprise her role – perhaps for a small cameo – in the upcoming Deadpool, which is expected to hit our screens this year.

Elektra leaves the Netflix catalog on January 14.