2011 Directed by Olivier Megaton
After witnessing her parents’ murder as a child in Bogota, Cataleya Restrepo grows up to be a stone-cold assassin. 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.
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Venganza despiadada, Smrtící orchidej, Colombiana (2011)
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- I want to be a killer. Can you help me?
- Sure.
Honestly, I know a sequel wouldn't have been possible but I would have wanted one just to see Miss Saldaña as a badass killer again :)
I don't actually know what to say about this. Colombiana was neither amazing nor terrible.
Zoe Saldana was a kick arse assassin and her younger self was very cool.
Lots of shooting, humans getting dominated by animals and good old fashioned revenge.
Not bad :-) enjoyable at least.
Don’t get me wrong, COLOMBIANA covers no new material here. It’s revenge week at my place, I suppose as this is the third vengeance-themed action piece I’ve watched in as many days. I must have done deep resentment building over something.
Anyway, where PEPPERMINT didn’t even nail down the concept of revenge, and DEATH WISH (2018) felt weirdly like a feel-good revenge film for the whole family, COLOMBIANA succeeds in its appropriate backstory, character depth, action scenes, cinematic vengeance, and visual style.
Zoe Saldana is a great balance between legit actor and action star. COLOMBIANA knows what it is, and doesn’t take itself too seriously, which is the perfect tone. The film merges the color and pacing of a Tony…
This is another of those films that failed to impress me on its initial viewing. Directed by Olivier Megaton and starring Zoe Saldana as an assassin, this has definite similarities with producer Luc Besson's film Nikita. Playing a woman with a past and a unquenchable thirst for revenge on the drug-lords that murdered her family, there are plenty of bodies and the odd inspired piece of plotting.
When Cataleya (Zoe Saldana) arrives as a nine year old into the U.S. she disappears from under the authorities noses and heads for Chicago. Having been a witness at her father's murder, it has changed her forever and she asks her uncle to train her to kill for a living. Years pass and…
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I will champion any film that puts a kick-ass black female in the lead role, but Colombiana tried everything it could to convince me I should give that up. The baddies are super cliché, the writing is sub-par, and Michael Vartan as the cute but boring love interest nearly did me in. What kept me around was Zoe Saldana. She does a fantastic job of the physical side of the role and the emotional, human side is pretty well-developed as well. People complain about her being too skinny but I don't really think that's fair. She is who she is and she shouldn't be ridiculed for her body type. She's stunning and incredibly magnetic, and I think she does a great job carrying a film that probably shouldn't exist based on how derivative and predictable it is.
Generic action thriller with the hyper-lovely Zoe Saldana whose character shoots, stabs and shags her way through the blandest of revenge stories like she's put the cheats in beforehand. Directed by the same chap who did two Taken films and written by Luc Besson, I probably should've guessed it wouldn't be a classic.
The smaller action scenes are the best part of the movie. The police station mission was inventive and fun; in particular I liked how they used Saldana's petite physique as an asset. Sneaking through vents where a man wouldn't fit, being overlooked in a hiding place that wouldn't even register as one to a normal-sized human. Likewise little girl Cataleya escaping her parents' killers in the film's opening scene was well done, with surprisingly solid stunts for a child actor.
Pretty much all of the action scenes worked, except for the big finale, which was thoroughly paint-by-numbers. Not a great one to miss on, and it was pretty disappointing.
While this isn't a smart action thriller by any means, it…
Well at the very least it’s Olivier Megaton‘s best film. Zoe Saldaña crushes it in the titular role and gives it her all but she’s letdown by a weak script and an incredibly generic plot. I’d probably give this a pass if the action was any good but like all of Megaton’s films it’s choppy as hell and extremely hard to tell what’s going on most of the time (although less so here than his other films). It’s entertaining and moves by at a quick enough pace but it offers nothing new to either the revenge or assassin genres. I’m sure I’ll forget I even watched this by the end of the week.
"I know something you're good at finishing."
I can appreciate Zoe Saldana's attempt to create an assassin with vulnerability, even when that vulnerability is just playing on the "You killed my parents" cliche we've seen a thousand times before, but she can't for the life of her pull off the kind of intense mental conditioning and indoctrination that would form a professional killer. Her unsubstantial performance isn't helped by a script that only exists to get us from one predictable PG-13 killing sequence to the next.
The characters are all one dimensional and underdeveloped, the dialogue is composed entirely of action movie cliches, the soundtrack is embarrassing, the villains and the cinematography looks like something out of a big city…
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"Colombiana" could have been the female equivalent of "Taken" With leading actress Zoe Saldana, the right woman was cast for the job, blessed with incredible acting talent. This talent is not overly demanded in "Colombiana", but at least it enhances her credibility. Sadly, the movie messes it up too often.
It's true that "Colombiana" can stand out with a certain amount of harshness, but the dirty, grimy, this sudden rawness that made up "Taken" is just missing. Everything runs a little bit too smooth, coincidences pile up and the action just seems interchangeable here and there. Only one action scene actually conveys an immediate tension through its directness, the rest is ironed out and is only intended…
Just re-watched Colombiana and mannnnn do I loooove this movie. It's the "eat" for me (if you know, you know).
I love a smart ass almost spy-like woman who gets revenge 🔥
From the director who brought you the incomprehensible mess that is Taken 3. Colombiana is slightly better than that, in the way that a shit sandwich is slightly more palatable than death. In any case, I defy anyone to watch this clip and tell me who is doing what to whom.
