An awful, incomprehensible mess that neither titillates or amuses. And for a comedy about porn, that's a fatal combination.

| Original Score: .5/4 | Aug 5, 2019

The sum total is a black hole of blinding pain.

| Aug 25, 2017

Elektra Luxx has its moments, but the overriding reaction is "Why?" Not only did its predecessor not merit a sequel by anyone's standards, but this is a forgettable film briefly buoyed by lines and energetic performances.

| Original Score: C+ | Aug 15, 2013

Writer/director Sebastian Gutierrez is all over the map with a bizarre multi-character drama that never really clicks.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Sep 9, 2011

Offbeat, and powered by a game cast, but also full of spun-off asides and backstories that aren't smoothly integrated into the final product, or made to have forward-reaching consequences.

| Original Score: C- | Mar 31, 2011

An odd but often laugh-out-loud funny mix of absurdist humor, raunchy backstories, and genuine pathos.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 25, 2011

Everything about this movie is off.

| Original Score: D | Mar 15, 2011

While I admired the acting, it just never really came together into a cohesive whole that I could appreciate, but it's still an interesting, laudable attempt at making something different.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Mar 15, 2011

'Elektra'-fying!

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 11, 2011

Not that there's a lot of substance here in the first place. Gutierrez's movie is superficial and slick in most respects, and if not for its amazing cast of veteran and up-and-coming character actors I don't there would be much here to talk about.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 11, 2011

Carla Gugino and Joseph Gordon-Levitt perform superhuman work trying to keep this mess together, but can only do so much when faced with such arbitrarily plotted nonsense.

| Mar 11, 2011

Gugino and the rest of the mostly female cast clearly savor the chance to strip and swear in a free-play environment, which is a nice way of saying the film is hopelessly flabby and lacks coherence.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 11, 2011

I loved the film's humor and subversive attitude. The entire cast is fantastic, with (Julianne) Moore's brief appearance (as the Virgin Mary) a particularly nice touch.

| Original Score: B- | Mar 11, 2011

Has some scattered witty notions, but it is not funny.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Mar 11, 2011

A porn star's midlife crisis makes for a limp story in "Elektra Luxx."

| Original Score: 1/4 | Mar 11, 2011

Too ramshackle and sloppy to leave much of a lasting impression.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 10, 2011

Despite the fine thesping seen in this innocuous piece of fluff, the whole amounts to less than the sum of its parts.

| Mar 10, 2011

"Elektra Luxx" has a playful, breezy sexiness that gives the world of the film, porn biz and all, a refreshing innocence.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 10, 2011

You sense that the characters, as much as we, are waiting for something to happen.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Mar 10, 2011

"Elektra Luxx'' needs a star whose secret weapon is that she only looks and sounds as dumb as people think she is. It needs Melanie Griffith.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 10, 2011