Colombiana (2011)

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• Film C

  
  This story has got many holes in the plot however you can look over them because its an action packed thrill ride thats just entertaining to watch ! Its explosive, revengeful and bullets flying everywhere! If you dont want much from a movie and only want to watch a women kick some… More
  This story has got many holes in the plot however you can look over them because its an action packed thrill ride thats just entertaining to watch ! Its explosive, revengeful and bullets flying everywhere! If you dont want much from a movie and only want to watch a women kick some arse then this is a great movie! Expect anything more then you'll be extremely disappointed!

• MisterYoda ?

  
  three stars

• Stuart B

  
  Decent enough action move, but we have seen it all before.

• Justin Y

  
  Olivier Megaton's <i>Colombiana</i> delivers the thrills at the hand of the gorgeous.</p><p>Clocking in at 105 minutes, there isn't much in the way of surprises or twists with the story. For the most part, things are predictable with brief details to… More
  Olivier Megaton's <i>Colombiana</i> delivers the thrills at the hand of the gorgeous.</p><p>Clocking in at 105 minutes, there isn't much in the way of surprises or twists with the story. For the most part, things are predictable with brief details to fill in what could be plot holes. Nevertheless, having a sexy assassin getting the job done is simply enjoyable.</p><p>The film does have its share of assassinations, although the intense action is bottled up until the finale, accompanied by some brisk editing. The earlier segments are comprised of more elaborate and professional killings, which end up as a nice touch between the story's slower segments.</p><p>There are no complaints with Zoe Saldana strutting around doing all the dirty work. She fits the bill nicely. The rest of the supporting cast end up with the usual cliched supporting characters, which are no competition for Zoe.</p><p><i>Colombiana</i> does lack its own unique flare, but at the end of the day it is an action thriller that passes the test.</p>

• ♥˩ƳИИ &

  
  Cast: Zoe Saldana, Michael Vartan, Jordi Mollà, Cliff Curtis, Callum Blue, Lennie James, Amandla Stenberg, Max Martini, Graham McTavish Director: Olivier Megaton Summary: After watching Bogota gangsters slay her parents in cold blood, young Cataleya Restrepo (Zoe Saldana)… More
  Cast: Zoe Saldana, Michael Vartan, Jordi Mollà, Cliff Curtis, Callum Blue, Lennie James, Amandla Stenberg, Max Martini, Graham McTavish Director: Olivier Megaton Summary: After watching Bogota gangsters slay her parents in cold blood, young Cataleya Restrepo (Zoe Saldana) dedicates her life to becoming a ruthless assassin on the hunt for the criminals who killed her family. My Thoughts: "It was a good little revenge thriller. I felt remorse for the young Cataleya, but the older one I found to be a bit selfish. I can see where you want revenge and will stop at nothing, but to risk what family you have left? Not very wise. Cataleya shows little respect to her uncle who has taught her everything she knows. The action is OK. It is predictable which takes away the surprise from any revenge flick. Saldana does well in the film. But I just think they spent more time on her look and the sexiness of a woman hired killer then they did on story and character development, which would have helped this film out a lot more."

• Anthony L

  
  Luc Besson produced action films are always generally a bit of a guilty pleasure. They usually involve car chases, revenge and parkour too and Colombiana is no exception - except I liked it a little bit more. It doesn't have the humour that many of his other films have like Taxi… More
  Luc Besson produced action films are always generally a bit of a guilty pleasure. They usually involve car chases, revenge and parkour too and Colombiana is no exception - except I liked it a little bit more. It doesn't have the humour that many of his other films have like Taxi and The Transporter (towards the end), it's quite serious throughout and better for it I think. It's no masterpiece but it's definitely got something special about it, there were even a few moments where I thought, could this be the new Nikita. It's no Nikita but it's definitely related and worth seeking out.

• Jason R

  
  Zoe was electric, but so many of the plot points just didn't make sense. It was Leon The Professional, but without the comic relief and heartwarming at its center. Without those two things, you end up with a cold, heartless, soulless homage to premeditated violence.

• Chris W

  
  A child witnesses the deaths of her parents right in front of her at the hands of a mobster, and, after she escapes, she trys to rebuild her life and vows revenge. That's it. For co-writer and producer Luc Besson, this is comfortable, familiar territory. He's become an old… More
  A child witnesses the deaths of her parents right in front of her at the hands of a mobster, and, after she escapes, she trys to rebuild her life and vows revenge. That's it. For co-writer and producer Luc Besson, this is comfortable, familiar territory. He's become an old pro at being involved with films concerning tough attractive women out for revenge who use the profession of hired killer as a means of getting said revenge, This time around though, there's a lack of depth, development, and substance. If all you want to see (and nothing more) is Zoe Saldana looking hot, especially while kicking ass and taking names, then you should be happy. If you want a story or characters you care about ot go along with it, then you'll be disappointed. Saldana is fine with the action material, and she's becoming more credible with this type of thing. However, when her character actually has moments of vulnerability and she's supposed to get emotional, they don't work becuase the character isn't well developed, and the audience doesn't connect with her or but those scenes. I think it's because the film never takes the time to have her grow as a character. Even as a child whe nshe's escaping from thugs with guns, she's shown as an adept superwoman without any prior establishment that she's supposed to be this way from the start. Also, I really didn't buy the implausibility of the "choice" scene when her uncle tries to make her assess what she wants to do with her life. Like I said though, Saldana does decent with the action stuff, some of the action scenes are decent, and I wasn't bored. I didn't care though, and ultimately, the film never blew me away, instead coming off as a typical mediocre action film. Take it or leave it.

• Al S

  
  A tremendously entertaining and exhilarating no-holds-barred action-packed thriller. An explosive and adrenaline-pumping edge of your seat thriill-ride from Director, Oliver Megaton and Producer. Luc Besson. Besson never ceases to amaze with his fierce storytelling and his ability to… More
  A tremendously entertaining and exhilarating no-holds-barred action-packed thriller. An explosive and adrenaline-pumping edge of your seat thriill-ride from Director, Oliver Megaton and Producer. Luc Besson. Besson never ceases to amaze with his fierce storytelling and his ability to make strong female characters work. Zoe Saldana gives a strong and electrifying performance that shows of her skills as an action hero and as a leading actress who dominates the screen. A frequently exciting and riveting action movie. A fun ride all together.

• Josh L

  
  A bland and unoriginal revenge thriller with Zoe Saldana being the best thing in a movie that is instantly forgettable. The writing needed work, the story is somewhat convoluted and incredibly implausible (action movies usually need a little bit of suspension of disbelief, but… More
  A bland and unoriginal revenge thriller with Zoe Saldana being the best thing in a movie that is instantly forgettable. The writing needed work, the story is somewhat convoluted and incredibly implausible (action movies usually need a little bit of suspension of disbelief, but Columbiana took it way over the top), and the acting outside of Saldana is mediocre. It's your typical Luc Besson action movie, except without the usual guilty pleasures outside of a good looking heroine.

• Manu G

  
  Vengeance is beautiful. Very good movie. I very much enjoyed it and I think Zoe Saldana has alot of potential to be a great actress in the future. She very much carried this film by herself and she was specially great on her role. Nice supporting cast and very good story, nice… More
  Vengeance is beautiful. Very good movie. I very much enjoyed it and I think Zoe Saldana has alot of potential to be a great actress in the future. She very much carried this film by herself and she was specially great on her role. Nice supporting cast and very good story, nice ending. A young woman grows up to be a stone-cold assassin after witnessing her parents' murder as a child in Bogota. She works for her uncle as a hitman by day, but her personal time is spent engaging in vigilante murders that she hopes will lead her to her ultimate target - the mobster responsible for her parents' death.

• Jeff "

  
  Columbiana had the potential of being such a great action film. However that was not to be. I was very much let down by this film, and I thought it failed as an action film. Everything we saw on-screen, we've seen a hundred times before. The sad thing, is that there's some… More
  Columbiana had the potential of being such a great action film. However that was not to be. I was very much let down by this film, and I thought it failed as an action film. Everything we saw on-screen, we've seen a hundred times before. The sad thing, is that there's some good talent involved in the film, and their skills are wasted on such a poorly constructed action film. I was very much looking forward to seeing Coilumbiana as I very much enjoy Zoe Saldana. Unfortunately the film didn't deliver, and it ended up being a very bad film. The actions scenes were entertaining at times, but in the end it leaves a lot to be desired. What really sucks about the film is that this could have been such a great film, it had the potential of being a memorable, fun action film. For me this is one of the worst films of 2011, and I was disappointed overall. I felt the film was lazy, unimpressive and pretty predictable. Everything you expect that will happen, happens. I felt the film was a total waste, and Columbiana is for me one of the worst of 2011., This is a pointless, bad acted (despite the good talent that's wasted here), they delivered bad performances. Columbiana is nothing new, we've all seen it in previous films, and this one simply doesn't cut it. Coluimbiana is a terrible and exercise caution while watching it, you may be disappointed like I was. This film let me down big time, and was overall, a bad, predictable film that I want to forget.

• danny d

  
  completely entertaining with some great action sequences, but the film suffers from "why didnt the characters just do this?" and "how did we get from here to there?" with just a few slight changes to the script the film could have actually been great.

• Lewis C

  
  "She will never attack straight on...and you will not see her until it's too late." I'm quite the fan of action movies featuring sexy women killing people, even when it's a fairly average one like Colombiana. The plot - a young assassin named Cataleya (Zoe… More
  "She will never attack straight on...and you will not see her until it's too late." I'm quite the fan of action movies featuring sexy women killing people, even when it's a fairly average one like Colombiana. The plot - a young assassin named Cataleya (Zoe Saldana) is out to get bloody revenge on the people who killed her parents in front of her when she was a child - isn't exactly the freshest, but it really is only there to serve as an excuse for Saldana to sneak in and out of various places and blow people away. All I expected from Colombiana was a revenge-driven, simple action movie, and that's exactly what I got. Sure, there's filler in the form of a love interest and some ineffective but incredibly lucky law enforcement agents that bumble onto the trail of our sexy killer, but those diversions don't bog the movie down too much, so I won't complain. The ending is a little silly, too, but that's minor. I liked Colombiana well enough for what it was. It doesn't redefine the genre, but it was better than a lot of similar movies that I've seen lately.

• Phil H

  
  Trying not to compare too much to the classic hitman flick 'Leon' this female assassin flick tries too hard for its own good to raise emotion and thrills. Its not that its a bad film, far from it, its a solid action film and you must give the director and cast credit for… More
  Trying not to compare too much to the classic hitman flick 'Leon' this female assassin flick tries too hard for its own good to raise emotion and thrills. Its not that its a bad film, far from it, its a solid action film and you must give the director and cast credit for making the film much better than it deserves to be but at the end of the day the film is very predictable and simply nothing new. The cast are very good in this film with a strong brooding presence from Saldana who does actually come across as a capable killer but the Colombian bad guys are all pretty cliched with their stubble and shades hehe. Performances from Curtis as the mentor/uncle, James as the ever behind FBI and a decent small role for McTavish as a Marshall with a very good US accent all add to a well rounded and understated cast that really do make the film quite believeable...at times. I wonder who is the better young innocent pre-hitgirl? the young Stenberg or the young Portman? hard to decide really, the young Cataleya is slightly unbelievable as she leaps and bounds over rooftops like a pro gymnast when the baddies go after her, after she sticks a henchman with a blade!. Not really how a young child would behave methinks but I guess she is suppose to be gifted, its just less realistic when watching. One problem with the film is the forced emotional aspects which I found hard to accept, 'Emilio' the uncle and mentor of 'Cataleya' is some kind of underground thug or mafia type who gunned down an innocent person in their car to prove a point to a young Cataleya and Cataleya's family from Columbia were all involved with drug trafficking, they had guns stashed around the house!! so really its kinda hard to feel for Cataleya and what she's doing as everyone she knows/has known is a criminal. Also you wonder how she becomes an elite killer, who trained her? Emilio the uncle? was he some kind of super killer too? he merely comes across as a Colombian goodfella type. The film can't quite capture the close emotion of a certain Besson classic and like with all modern films ends up relying on flashy action set pieces to make up for it when a more subdued approach would have worked wonders, the final curtain for the main bad guy is also quite stupid. Solid but nothing new to offer over other good female assassin flicks such as 'Nikita' and remake 'Point of No Return' aka 'The Assassin', but you have to wonder why Besson is so obsessed with assassin films that he keeps remaking the same thing over and over.

• Matt G

  
  I'd like to say that this film had potential to be something great, but the plot is so damn uninteresting, as well as the script, the acting (even Saldana can't save this), and just everything makes this an all-around terrible film.

• Michael S

  
  Some decent action sequences cannot make a good movie, and "COLOMBIANA" is NOT a good movie. Zoe Saldana overacts her heart out to try to keep the film afloat, but a lazy plot and even lazier filmmaking make for a movie that's near impossible to care about. Throwaway… More
  Some decent action sequences cannot make a good movie, and "COLOMBIANA" is NOT a good movie. Zoe Saldana overacts her heart out to try to keep the film afloat, but a lazy plot and even lazier filmmaking make for a movie that's near impossible to care about. Throwaway "entertainment" that you can do without.

• Brad W

  
  Columbiana is another revenge action thriller, I literally was bored out of my mind. Cataleya (Zoe Salanda) becomes a vigilante killer after years ago witnessing her parents murder at the hands of men her father worked for, and she decides to track them down a kill them all. The… More
  Columbiana is another revenge action thriller, I literally was bored out of my mind. Cataleya (Zoe Salanda) becomes a vigilante killer after years ago witnessing her parents murder at the hands of men her father worked for, and she decides to track them down a kill them all. The plot is so simple and dull that a 4 year old could understand the plot, and if I have said it once I hve said it a thousand times, quit making movies like this. The cast is totally dull, and all Zoe Salanda will be remembered for is actress wearing most cleavage, and she was not ready for a role like this, at least I think so. The action sequences sucked, I have hardly ever been so bored in a action movie with hardly any action, and it just didn't give me that "Holy Sh!t" moments I was hoping for. Columbiana is very boring and has been done before, very few things went right and I don't plan on recommending this to action lovers, but it did have some very fun chase scenes, but thats about it.

• William D

  
  "Colombiana" is a fairly engaging action thriller. It has some originality, and at times it's bold in its darkness. This ain't no happy story. But at times it's ludicrous and cliche-ridden. Bottom line: A pretty good time at the movies, but nothing to… More
  "Colombiana" is a fairly engaging action thriller. It has some originality, and at times it's bold in its darkness. This ain't no happy story. But at times it's ludicrous and cliche-ridden. Bottom line: A pretty good time at the movies, but nothing to write home about. Director Olivier Megaton also directed "Transporter 3." No surprise. "Megaton" incidentally is not his given name. It's his stage name. I couldn't stop laughing when I heard that. How does he expect anyone to take him seriously with a stage name like that?

• Everett J

  
  Zoe Saldana stars as "Cataleya", a woman who is a trained killer on a mission to avenger her parents death in this action thriller. While revenge movies have been done before, and done better, not many of them have been done with a lead quite like Saldana. She brings a… More
  Zoe Saldana stars as "Cataleya", a woman who is a trained killer on a mission to avenger her parents death in this action thriller. While revenge movies have been done before, and done better, not many of them have been done with a lead quite like Saldana. She brings a sexiness mixed with some badass qualities that helps set this apart. It's shot to look a lot like "Man on Fire", but it's nowhere near as good. The movie is around 110 minutes, yet the story still just doesn't feel fleshed out enough. It has a solid back story, but once we meet Zaldana the story feels a little rushed and the ending is kind of anti-climatic. It's not a horrible movie, just an unfullfilling movie, it leaves you kind of feeling like you missed out on something. I love revenge movies, and while this isn't in the top 5, it's worth a watch. If you like movies like "Man on Fire", "Hanna" or the "Kill Bill" series, then you will probably find some enjoyment here. Just don't expect this to be in the same class.

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