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Often improbable, sometimes ludicrous, but frequently exciting.
Possibly worth seeing if you are 13.
There's bad acting all around, but you can't fully blame the performers. The dialogue needed a writer to come in and punch it up - the lines sound like placeholders.
Colombiana isn't the last word in action movies, but it's a fun ride.
Megaton blows things up, demolishes a fruit market, and throws in some parkour foot-chases as if he's completing a checklist.
Colombiana isn't completely dreadful, if you ignore the holes in its Swiss cheese of a plot.
The action set pieces are elaborately staged and sometimes exciting, but the dull script, overcooked direction and wonky editing damage this otherwise enjoyable B-movie.
Colombiana is a self-righteous misstep from the usually reliable Luc Besson action-film factory.
"Colombiana" never even considers that what Cataleya has devoted her life to doing might not be entirely justified and that what she does might make her just as evil as the people who wronged her.
A fast-paced tale of revenge, 'Colombiana' is a better-than-average actioner made all the more interesting by its female lead. Zoe Saldana ('Star Trek' and 'Avatar') follows the path of 'Hanna' and 'Salt' as a tough-as-nails assassin.
The latest disappointing actioner from producer Luc Besson...
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Overall, the movie has enough clever chases, break-ins, and escapes -- not to mention a sweet, small tragic romance -- to make it worthwhile, but this isn't one of Besson's stronger efforts.
Colombiana has one true asset -- the seminude sight of its star, Zoe Saldana -- and milks it for everything it's worth.
A cynical mash-up of Besson's Leon and Nikita, though without their depth of character or emotional warmth.
It's as slick as an oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, as fast-moving as hurricane Emily and as memorable as an episode of The A-Team.
Half the dialogue between these dirtbags is devoted to her near-invisibility, and all of it's awful: "She's like mist," apparently.
You'll find yourself laughing, then realise that it's not meant to be funny.
Even the talented Saldana can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear - much less a dog's dinner.
Colombiana is every bit as slick and silly as you'd expect, but Saldana pulls off her far-fetched assassin with panache, whether wriggling through a police station's air ducts in a latex cat suit or dispatching a crook with his own pet sharks.
Occasionally enjoyable in a silly way, but I have to say Besson's preoccupation with the little-girl-becomes-killer trope is looking a little unwholesome.
Saldana has star quality and action chops but the script is laughable and boring.
Colombiana wants to be Bourne with boobs, but its connect-the-dots narrative and silted script means it can't quite reach those bone-crunching heights.
In Colombiana, a basic formula is reduced to a few broad strokes: she's skinny, she's lethal, she's desperate.
Columbiana piles on so many ludicrous events, puzzling plot points and fake accents that it loses any chance to be a halfway decent pulp mix of beauty, bullets and bad guys.
A far-fetched disappointment considering it was co-written by Luc Besson, the director of Leon.
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