Review of Colombiana (2011) by Sgt. C — 13 Feb 2015

(35%).

Luc Besson really needs to call time on movies about a cool headed trained killers, as the concept is well and truly looking old. To be fair though this isn't a bad movie. Zoe Saldana works better than most as the lead, but she's really got no big names to help back her up, and as the main bad guy is as bland as they come there's no real draw which is something as mediocre as this really could have done with. There's a fair amount of reasonable action, and of course with this being a Besson movie there's the obligatory rocket launcher sequence, and it's all handed acceptably well. The parts between the action though just aren't strong enough as the writing is too crude and the plot is way too predicable.