Review of Colombiana (2011) by Raquel R — 20 Oct 2012

There is less to this movie than I had hoped for. It an overly simple movie of a girl has her family killed and has a never-ending hate that fuels her to kill her parents murder (and nothing else). The problem is the character is so cold blooded and bent on revenge it is hard to fully root for her.

All of the characters are all very flat and there is very little substance between action sequences. We never get any closer to the main character through her stained relations with her adopted father or from her semi-love interest.

The final resolution is predictable and unfulfilling. On the positive side, the action scenes are quite entertaining even though they are hardly believable. Zoe Saldana does not bring much to her character.

It is not totally her fault though, this type of role usually only asks that the heroine look good and does not provide much opportunity to showcase acting. Every other member of the cast is actually quite bad, like soap opera acting bad.

The writing was bad and the story never really takes us anywhere. This is good as a dose of sexy, farfetched, fast paced action, but do not look for anything more here.