COLOMBIANA Movie Review
By: Rama
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I don’t know which one is more absurd. Like my friend Yara indicated.. 9 year old Zoe Saldana’s character jumping from wall to wall like the Prince Of Persia or New Zealander Cliff Curtis who plays Zoe’s mentor, trying too hard to sound like Scarface‘s Tony Montana. That said, COLOMBIANA does have its appeals, mostly thanks to Zoe’s sexy, slick attitude but what we gotta keep in mind is that this is a Europacorp presentation, the force behind Transporter movies, Taken and From Paris With Love, basically a bunch of mindless actioners that don’t require much to enjoy..
Saldana (Avatar, Star Trek) plays a young woman who, after witnessing her parents’ murder as a child in Bogota, 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
I’d be lying if I said there weren't parts about COLOMBIANA that ain’t cool because watching Zoe’s character getting close to her target and getting away clean after she assassinates them is something that you can’t keep your eyes off of. She kinda reminds me of Catherine Zeta-Jones in the film Entrapment, the way Zoe’s skinny body moves through tight spaces and challenging obstacles. Zoe is a sight to behold.
COLOMBIANA is one of those action flicks that are too lazy to explain certain details, they just want the lead character to look unbelievably smooth and it doesn’t matter to them if how they got to a certain point makes any sense at all.
I wouldn’t put COLOMBIANA on the same level as some of cinematic’s revenge films of the past but it is mildly entertaining and said I ‘mildly’ because its level of creativity only goes so far and the rather predictable plotline is nothing that you haven’t already seen a thousand times before.
The explosive shootout or showdown I should say, in the final scene makes up for the lackluster moments prior to it.
Farfetched, ridiculous and absurd are the appropriate ways to describe this film. Curtis’ character, for example, at one point shoots a car full of people across the street from his spot, in broad daylight, and he walks away like it’s usual business, if that’s not laughable, if that’s not absurd, then I don’t know what is.
By the way, I’m a bit tired of watching girls who are skin and bones, like Jolie and Zoe beating up guys twice their size, which is why I’m looking forward to Soderbergh’s HAYWIRE starring MMA fighter Gina Carano who is beauty and lethal all in one, now that is a believable female action star because she could literally kick your ass.
GRADE: 2 out of 5
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