Colombiana (2011)
Average Rating: 4.8/10
Reviews Counted: 92
Fresh: 24 | Rotten: 68
Zoe Saldana has the chops but she's taken out by erratic and sloppy filmmaking.
Average Rating: 5.2/10
Critic Reviews: 21
Fresh: 10 | Rotten: 11
Zoe Saldana has the chops but she's taken out by erratic and sloppy filmmaking.
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In the action film Colombiana, Zoe Saldana plays Cataleya, a young woman who has grown up to be an assassin after witnessing the murder of her parents as a child. Turning herself into a professional killer and working for her uncle, she remains focused on her ultimate goal: to hunt down and get revenge on the mobster responsible for her parents' deaths. -- (C) Sony Pictures
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Cast
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Zoe Saldana
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Jordi Molla
Marco -
Lennie James
Ross, Special Agent Ros... -
Amandla Stenberg
Cat - Age 10, Young Cat... -
Michael Vartan
Danny Delanay -
Cliff Curtis
Emilio Restrepo -
Callum Blue
Richard -
Beto Benites
Don Luis -
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Max Martini
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All Critics (92) | Top Critics (21) | Fresh (25) | Rotten (68) | DVD (4)
Tiresome and unconvincing.
Top CriticOften 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 contains some thrilling scenes as well as an interesting sense of twisted humor, but there's not enough here to really keep us engaged.
Laugh out loud exploitation...See Zoe shoot. See Zoe kill. See Zoe strip (PG-13 style)
Colombiana is caught somewhere in the middle of an engaging character drama and a brainless action extravaganza.
With a tighter story and structure, most of the film's problems could have been easily fixed, resulting in a film that doesn't feel like a build-up of superfluous events.
Ranks as one of the more eco- and econ-friendly projects of recent memory, what with producer/co-writer Luc Besson recycling many elements from his prior successes.
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...
click for full review at Movies for the Masses
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.
Audience Reviews for Colombiana
Super Reviewer
If Colombiana didn't have a heroine played by a talented actress like Zoe Saldana in the main role you wouldn't be able to distinguish it from a production line Michael Bay movie. If you want a film with explosion after explosion, an overly frantic lead performance, more explosions, guns firing aimlessly, and a conclusive unconvincing emotional moment, then i'd strongly recommend it. It's a cheesy and badly put together fight fest boasting a dull storyline and even more uninteresting sub-plots. Though it understands it's limitations as being a forgettable piece of eye candy it much rather comes across as a badly acted blockbuster that wants to believe it's trashy fun but wont face the reality that even though it's throwing everything at the screen it's just unbelievably boring. It's one of those films that was never going to be great, I watched it with reasonably low expectations, it's pretty amazing that somehow it still managed to disappoint me, it's a shame.
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- Danny Delanay: How was your trip?
- Cataleya: Hot.
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- Cat - Age 10: I want to be a killer. Can you help me?
- Emilio Restrepo: Sure.
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- Cataleya: Eat.
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- Emilio Restrepo: You want me to teach you how to be a killer? No problem. I teach you. But you'll be dead in five years.If you want to be a killer and survive, you got to be a smart one. Have to know things besides how to pull a trigger. You have to know how people think. You got to learn how to be psychological. I cannot teach you that unless you learn the basics at a school. You got that? Hm? Come on, what's it going to be? Cataleya, you choose.
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- Cataleya: I want you exactly where you are.
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- Cataleya: I want to be a killer. Will you help me?
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August 25, 2011:
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Foreign Titles
- Columbiana (DE)
- Columbiana (UK)
