How bad could a film be if it features a 9 year old female child doing parkour stunts within the first 15 minutes of the film? Well.. this is one of those movies which features bumbling alphabet agencies, stiff mouthed cartel men riding cool motorbikes, and female assassins in tight bodysuits. There's some genuinely beautiful technical cinematography here. Plot wise it's 20 below room level temperature retardation. However, that's to be expected these days. It's amusing enough.

[Unrated Edition], #12#, popcorn, hype, story, (writer Besson/1), Zoe S/7-3

There's little to recommend since 'Colombiana' is as generic as action movies get. While Zoe Saldana makes for a gorgeous assassin and the hook is there, absolutely nothing reels this movie in. It's not awful, nor remotely good, but most importantly, it's not the least bit memorable. The film also ends with one of the most poorly choreographed and edited hand-to-hand combat sequences of any major studio production in recent memory.

I think I've figured it out. Luc Besson has three ideas. When he writes a screenplay, He takes those ideas, puts them into an empty Kleenex box and pulls out two. He then flips a Princess Diana commemorative coin onto which he's written 'future' and 'present.' Finally, he logs into Words With Friends to desperately search for an actress whose name will score him the most points on a triple word tile.

Yes it was crap, but it was the enjoyable kind. Saldana was the only real good part of the film.

Worlds better than Taken.

A boring affair starring Zoe Saldana, who has to suffer through the film's dull aches - the revenge plot is conventional, the action seems rehashed (other than the chase scene at the beginning), and the villains are undeveloped. There are also some rather large plot holes, and I'm thinking especially of the scene where her uncle murders a random person in the middle of a Chicago suburb in front of a hundred onlookers. Ugh.

Zoe Saldana is amazing in this action-packed film about a young girl who witnesses the murder of her parents, and her quest for revenge as she is older. They couldn't have picked a better actress to play Cataleya as she certainly packs a punch! It's a rather simple film complete with enough action to keep you interested, and while it's not the best that the genre has to offer its going to please the right audiences, especially guys and Saldana fans that's for sure!

The action is decent... but the overall movie, is just to plain.

Not what L.A. Times it claimed to be: "A scandalous blend of action, sex and violence". What the should have said is, "It didn't have much of a story, but it did have action, violence, and implied sex. P.S., L.A. Times, LEARN HOW TO USE COMMAS! Strunk and White: a comma goes before an "and" in a list, unless it's a business name or title.

Okay, I watched the Unrated edition noticed it could have almost been PG-13. Seriously people this is not funny.

Beautiful cinematography and great action. Despite the very fast pace, the film isn't long enough to tell the full story. Still, the stealth assassinations is some of the best to be put on screen in years. The editing is almost too quick to really savour those long moments of a predator stalking her prey. And there are some unnecessary MTV-like shots of Saldana changing her clothes. But overall this is a solid, polished action film. Looking forward to more ass-kickery from Saldana.

Dear Luc Besson, Please stop recycling elements from previous movies. Thanks, Cinema

Watchable

Seeing that the script is from Luc Besson, maybe I shouldn't have expected more. Started with a nice parcour scene, but went steeply downhill from there. Pity, really.

Strangely reminiscient of a short story my lil' brother wrote when he was thirteen.

"Luc Besson's pulp-fiction assembly line churns out another adequate ass-kicker with Colombiana, which boasts many of the French producer-director's favorite tropes." - Nick Schager

Flashy, plot & character free flick that you've seen multiple times before. It has a few finer moments but you can pass this one without further worries of missing something important. A generic rip-off but it always can be worse. PG-13 doesn't suit this one very well.

Zoe Saldana nearly made my balls explode... Rivals "Battle: Los Angeles" for 2011's 'Big Pile of Fuck Award'.

I watched this under duress and had to stifle laughter every time that mentor guy opened his mouth. I just have to believe that the New Zealand actor who plays him has gotten sick of being typecast as Latinos and is not giving a shit anymore in how ridiculous his accents are.

Half action movie and half music video montage of Zoe Saldana changing clothes. Ok, actually more like 25% action and 75% Zoe changing clothes.

Watching her rash downward spiral is somewhat entertaining, but the whole thing just feels hollow.

The PG13 action works well for the most part, but everything else is tired cliches, hollow types and completely uninspired, undeveloped ideas.

Really bad, even by generic action standards, from Cataleya's paper-thin boyfriend character to the bland and profoundly uninteresting villains to the overly frenetic action scenes and even the painfully bright and digital cinematography.

a sweet action movie 10 out of 10

doesn't know if it wants to be a serious crime drama or Commando; isn't particularly interesting either way. zoe saldana is very lovely and very good, considering what she has to work with

A cinematic cyborg--combining parts of *La Femme Nikita* and *Leon: the Professional*--which is not necessarily a bad thing, if the film had a stronger story. Saldana saves this movie from being mediocre, if not terrible--not so much for action prowess, but for her dramatic skills.

generic, boring, only highlight is zoe saldana

i really like it. good action.

Getting punched by a 100 pound women ain't going to hurt that much. But she does look good. Ending song Johnny cash is the man.

Really, there wasn't much to the movie, and even the hotness of Zoe Saldana couldn't keep me from disliking this movie.

Reasonably entertaining. I got really pumped that it would be a good popcorn movie during the opening but sadly it just gets worse and worse. Vartan's character and that whole plotline was a complete waste of time. Shoulda spent all scenes involving him on her training in younger years instead. A lot of retooling coulda made this pretty cool, I think. Saldana was sick hot.

Like Bunken uses to say: "If you like cheesy Besson movies, you´ll probably like this..." Guess I like cheesy Besson movies ;-) Colombiana is a highly enjoyable action flick in my eyes and Saldana is hotter than hell.

The premise stinks and so does Saldana (even though she's hot as hell), but on the positive note Olivier Megat(r)on delivers some fine imagery. And just by havíng ALMOST such a cool name as a director I give it 10 points more. But hey... If you're into cheesy Besson movies, you'll probably like this as well...

pure action movie, doesn't make you feel much for the characters. watch it for some mindless fun! although i still cannot accept the fact that guns are waterproof.

great acting. the editing in the action scenes was a little weird, though.

Takes every Tony Scott movie, takes out all the good parts and puts the rest in a blender and shits it out and this is what you get. Just feels like the director had no clue what he was doing and tried to overcompensate by doing what he's seen on TV shows. The script was so cliched and terrible and the acting is of course bad because the script doesn't make sense. Zoe Saldana is nice eye candy but she can't save a turd from sinking.

Not bad for Zoe Saldana. Shame there was no story to follow, nor decent villain or any of characters. Zoe's acrobatics were nice to watch and actually she's the only reason to enter the movie. Not the best from Luc Besson, but the last fight was worth to see: innovative, snappy and well choreographed.

A script that has been seen a million times before: family/friends get killed - seek revenge - find revenge - the end. The only difference is a gorgeous Zoe Saldana.