Review of Colombiana (2011) by Movie K — 30 Oct 2014

Good action movie with a kick ass woman! In Colombia 1992, gangster Beto Benites send his men to kill young Zoe Saldana parents. Jordi Mollà palm is stabbed by the girl and she escape. She go to the embassy address as instructed by her father and pass the memory card to an agent.

She get asylum to Miami. She escape in the airport toilet, travel to Chicago to find Cliff Curtis for refuge. She aspire to be a killer. Cliff enroll her to school to learn. 15 years later, Zoe pretend to drink driving and get caught by police.

Staying in detention cell, US Marshal brought in a criminal. Zoe unlock her cell, disable the electrical system, crawl through the fan blade, knock out the guard marshal and enter the cell to kill the criminal.

She escape and go back to her cell to sleep and nobody suspect her. FBI Lennie James is send to investigate. 22 murders in 4 years with the same M.O. CIA agent Callum Blue has been working with Beto for information and they want him to find this killer.

Beto know it is Zoe. Lennie know the killer is one of the person in the station and assign his men to check everyone. Zoe has a boyfriend Michael Vartan. Cliff assign another new job for Zoe. He doesn't know she left the drawing of the flower on her victims until the newspaper came out.

A cleaner told Lennie the flower is Cateleya and only found in Colombia. Zoe trained 2 dogs to eat on command. She sneak into the next target home via the shark pool. She shot him bleeding and fell to the pool, devour by sharks.

Lennie call Callum but he deny him access rights to the information. Jordi and men goes to search for Zoe. Michael took a photo of Zoe while she's asleep. Cliff is angry the baddies kill many Colombians and one is his friend.

He want to stop helping Zoe. Michael show the photo to his friend and he secretly send it to his sis-in-law working in the police station to run through data match. Lennie was notify of the search and mobilise his team to intercept and get a match data.

They get the phone location and reach her house. Zoe escape to another unit and grab a rifle hidden in the ceiling, then blow up a wall when the SWAT team blow her door. She escape easily and go find Cliff.

But the family are all killed. She find Lennie at home and made him sit on a wired bomb chair, start telling her story. She want Lennie to work harder. The chair bomb is a fake. He go find Callum but he refuse to help.

Zoe call him and aim the sniper rifle at Callum and demand the address. She got what she wants. Next she go to the land surveyor office to get the floor plan of Beto house. Zoe wage an all out solo war against the baddies.

She kill many minions and fight Jordi, kills him with the gun chamber. Beto escape in a van but Zoe already planted her 2 hungry dogs behind. Upon hearing her eat command, they kills Beto. Michael is interview by Lennie and Zoe called him.

They chat for the last time before been trace.