I am actually a little bit embarrassed to admit that I even watched this movie. It was co-written by Luc Besson of Leon: The Professonial fame so I let myself get sucked into it. Live and learn. The movie is about Cataleya a young girl who witnesses her parents get murdered by a drug cartel in South America. Cataleya escapes and flees to the United States, where she meets up with her Uncle who trains her to be an Assassin. Eventually she seeks revenge on the people who murdered her parents.
Basically, this is the same plot as Leon: The Professional and about a 100 other movies. It reminded me of O-Ren Ishii's back story in Kill Bill Vol. 2. You know the whole sequence that Tarintino does as a cartoon? Yeah, that's this movie, only sucky. I should mention that I enjoyed Zoe Saldana in the lead role in this. I think that she did a lot with very little to work with. If you had to force me to come up with a reason to watch this movie, that would be it. Otherwise, Colombiana is largely derivative mess of a movie. There are some scenes in this film that are just laughable. For example, at one point Cliff Curtis, who plays the uncle, pulls out a hand cannon in the middle of the street and shoots at a passing car multiple times. The driver, now presumably dead, crashes the car in front of a slew of onlookers. Cliff Curtis then proceeds to have a conversation in the middle of the street with young Cataleya about the benefits of going to grade school. Eventually after several minutes they just walk away, apparently nobody has noticed them. You get 108 minutes of that. Don't waste your time with this movie. If you want to see a great example of this genre that brings some freshness and originality check out Hanna an underrated and great movie from last year.
Basically, this is the same plot as Leon: The Professional and about a 100 other movies. It reminded me of O-Ren Ishii's back story in Kill Bill Vol. 2. You know the whole sequence that Tarintino does as a cartoon? Yeah, that's this movie, only sucky. I should mention that I enjoyed Zoe Saldana in the lead role in this. I think that she did a lot with very little to work with. If you had to force me to come up with a reason to watch this movie, that would be it. Otherwise, Colombiana is largely derivative mess of a movie. There are some scenes in this film that are just laughable. For example, at one point Cliff Curtis, who plays the uncle, pulls out a hand cannon in the middle of the street and shoots at a passing car multiple times. The driver, now presumably dead, crashes the car in front of a slew of onlookers. Cliff Curtis then proceeds to have a conversation in the middle of the street with young Cataleya about the benefits of going to grade school. Eventually after several minutes they just walk away, apparently nobody has noticed them. You get 108 minutes of that. Don't waste your time with this movie. If you want to see a great example of this genre that brings some freshness and originality check out Hanna an underrated and great movie from last year.