‘There’s nothing more dangerous to a warrior than emotion,” Jude Law’s Kree commander tells Brie Larson’s Captain Marvel in the film that secured her Hollywood breakthrough. Anger, he says, “only serves the enemy”.
Larson’s ancient-but-modern avenger Elektra, not an intergalactic warrior but a punk rock rebel, is nothing if not angry over the murder of her father, Agamemnon, at the hands of her mother, Clytemnestra. Emotion burns off her but serves her vengeance well enough. She looks androgynous and off-kilter with a buzz cut and a Bikini Kill T-shirt.
