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Colombiana

Colombiana

2011
Drama, Suspense/Thriller
1h 48m
After watching Bogota gangsters slay her parents in cold blood, young Cataleya Restrepo dedicates her life to becoming a ruthless assassin, working on assignment but always on the hunt for the criminals who killed her family.
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Colombiana

2011
Drama, Suspense/Thriller
1h 48m
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Avg Percentile 32.03% from 847 total ratings

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Rated 02 Jan 2012
30
32nd
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.
Rated 16 Oct 2011
8
6th
Zoe Saldana nearly made my balls explode... Rivals "Battle: Los Angeles" for 2011's 'Big Pile of Fuck Award'.
Rated 28 Aug 2011
2
14th
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.
Rated 09 Aug 2011
82
32nd
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.
Rated 25 Oct 2011
40
25th
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...
Rated 20 Jan 2012
40
4th
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.
Rated 07 Dec 2013
35
11th
This being written by Besson, I have a suspicion, this was initially developed as a Leon sequel. As such... I think we should be grateful it didn't end up like that. Whatever the case, this sad mess is directed by a guy called Megaton. I think that says all that needs to be said.
Rated 31 Aug 2011
45
40th
The PG13 action works well for the most part, but everything else is tired cliches, hollow types and completely uninspired, undeveloped ideas.
Rated 10 Sep 2011
61
34th
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.
Rated 11 Sep 2011
25
12th
generic, boring, only highlight is zoe saldana
Rated 16 Oct 2011
68
37th
Half action movie and half music video montage of Zoe Saldana changing clothes. Ok, actually more like 25% action and 75% Zoe changing clothes.
Rated 16 Oct 2011
14
7th
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.
Rated 05 Nov 2011
78
46th
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.
Rated 18 Nov 2011
1
12th
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.
Rated 25 Dec 2011
35
23rd
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.
Rated 07 Jan 2014
73
37th
This is an enjoyable action movie. Zoe Saldana is very good in the lead role. There are not a lot of interesting supporting characters in the movie. The main reason to watch is the character played by Saldana.
Rated 30 Aug 2015
48
28th
Basically a bunch of Besson's flicks (Léon, Nikita) turned into Jason Bourne vehicle for Saldana. She actually does a good job, but Megaton kind of spoils everything with his lame, fast-paced direction.
Rated 19 Aug 2018
10
3rd
A model example for how NOT to do action
Rated 04 Jan 2019
75
88th
Watching Saldana taking names and kicking ass, fuck ya I'm in.
Rated 28 Aug 2011
100
51st
a sweet action movie 10 out of 10
Rated 27 Sep 2011
55
17th
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.
Rated 09 Oct 2011
40
12th
Strangely reminiscient of a short story my lil' brother wrote when he was thirteen.
Rated 10 Oct 2011
25
61st
"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
Rated 13 Oct 2011
65
17th
Watching her rash downward spiral is somewhat entertaining, but the whole thing just feels hollow.
Rated 26 Oct 2011
69
26th
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.
Rated 30 Oct 2011
50
24th
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.
Rated 15 Nov 2011
69
53rd
great acting. the editing in the action scenes was a little weird, though.
Rated 17 Nov 2011
47
37th
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.
Rated 08 Dec 2011
90
59th
i really like it. good action.
Rated 22 Dec 2011
40
20th
Really, there wasn't much to the movie, and even the hotness of Zoe Saldana couldn't keep me from disliking this movie.
Rated 24 Dec 2011
45
0th
İzlerken fenalık geçirdim klişe üstüne klişe başrol desen itici illet bir şey na-aa beğenmedim.
Rated 29 Dec 2011
55
34th
Yes it was crap, but it was the enjoyable kind. Saldana was the only real good part of the film.
Rated 04 Jan 2012
77
35th
Worlds better than Taken.
Rated 13 Jan 2012
39
10th
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.
Rated 07 Feb 2012
20
15th
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.
Rated 14 Feb 2012
63
61st
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.
Rated 14 Feb 2012
33
44th
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.
Rated 15 Feb 2012
17
77th
Okay, I watched the Unrated edition noticed it could have almost been PG-13. Seriously people this is not funny.
Rated 19 Feb 2012
30
15th
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.
Rated 20 Feb 2012
55
58th
Watchable
Rated 27 Apr 2012
35
5th
The action is decent... but the overall movie, is just to plain.
Rated 01 Jun 2012
84
69th
Zoe Saldana burns up the screen in this story of revenge. I thought this movie contained everything a fun action movie should have. Explosions, bad guys getting their just desserts and a dark anti-hero ready to dole out some punishment. I was happy to see that Michael Vartan from Alias was in this also. This wasn't a perfect movie by far and maybe I'm giving it too high of a score but sometimes you just can't help liking a movie even if it is a little thin on a plot. It's just a lot of fun.
Rated 01 Jul 2012
50
47th
Colombiana might have been salvageable if it took itself a little less seriously. You know, a laugh here or a wink there would have gone a long way with me. But instead, we get an unlikable protagonist that we can't even understand, a plot that is filled with holes, and a bunch of action scenes that aren't constructed with very much skill. Saldana could be an action star, and that's the one revelation that comes out of this film. The rest just doesn't make enough sense.
Rated 13 Jul 2012
48
20th
Featuring Besson's trademark love for kids/assassins, the plot is classic nonsensical vendetta, propelled by a sexy Saldana showcasing the injustice of being hidden behind blue CGI. While the direction shows no sign of economy, the editing is outright poor even by modern action standards. Nevertheless, it is mildly entertaining and basically just exploitation for the MTV-generation.
Rated 13 Aug 2012
39
8th
What is it about Olivier Megaton and sub-par action films? I could move the score up or down 10 points but really, it's been two days since I saw this and I barely remember a thing.
Rated 23 Aug 2012
55
26th
Points for Zoe and as dst7175 said getting punched by a skinny woman isn't going to hurt.
Rated 23 Aug 2012
2
59th
Surely the story and premise are flawed, however the film itself is decent overall. Barely though.
Rated 02 Sep 2012
68
8th
God this movie sucked. But hey, Zoe Saldana is really hot...
Rated 21 Oct 2012
70
13th
Was expecting a whole lot more, but was disappointed. Decent beginning, though weak ending.
Rated 19 Jan 2013
100
92nd
Loved this movie, the fact that it's an action-thriller starring a woman--the great actress Zoe Saldana. The girl who plays her younger self blew me away with her deadly seriousness; it was quite believable how the young girl could grow up to be a gun for hire. I could feel her pain, especially when the mobs get revenge for her killings. The love story sub-plot with Michael Vartan's character was underdeveloped and unnecessary, but it tied things together nicely at the end.
Rated 29 Jan 2013
35
30th
Zoe looks good in a tight body suit, but the movie had no other redeeming qualities
Rated 06 Feb 2013
80
20th
WTF
Rated 23 May 2013
80
62nd
I was waiting the whole movie for Don Deluise to show up, but I was disappointed. Other than that, I have nothing to fault this simple revenge flick.
Rated 02 Jun 2013
40
19th
Zoe Saldana is not a great actress, people just like it because of her womanness. And her nipple, which you can see in this movie.
Rated 24 Oct 2013
56
14th
Bad plot and writing, average action scenes, predictable film. My biggest gripe would be the plot that quite often doesn't seem to make any sense and the poor-written characters with unclear motivations. Despite its many shortcomings it still manages to be somewhat enjoyable.
Rated 13 Nov 2013
25
15th
Lively, incredible thriller that offers nothing new. It should marry Shooter (2007).
Rated 27 Jun 2014
45
12th
Not as bad as I thought it was going to be though....
Rated 04 Aug 2014
68
13th
Plopping neatly out of the Luc Besson lone female action hero mold, this is however not one of the Frenchman's cleverer films. In fact the plot is a wholly mindless revenge affair, devoid of wit or meaning. Zoe Saldana can do nothing with her role because there is not one line of personality written into the script. She is out-acted by a 9-year-old. There is some visual flair to the action scenes, but this alone does not a good film make, and the surrounding scenes are like watching paint dry.
Rated 04 Sep 2015
100
91st
you're dealing with a nine-year-old girl spending the next 15 years of her life training to become a killer all in a search for revenge you can't help but have a little emotion in your story... along with random dance sequences and a bit of impromptu sex. I mean, come on, he's only human.
Rated 27 Sep 2015
40
46th
#14#, [Unrated Edition], rw3, popcorn, Zoe.S/7b4, rewatch(2) }*{ #12#, [Unrated Edition], popcorn, hype, story, Zoe.S/7B4.
Rated 19 Nov 2015
50
15th
Less interesting once the incredible little parkour girl grew up into a woman of little substance and a lot of spite.
Rated 17 Aug 2016
80
67th
I was expecting a lot more. Having Luc Besson as a writer, my expectations were high considering that I find Leon to be the premiere assassin film of all time. However, this one falls into the same bargain bin as the rest of director Olivier Megaton's oeuvre and Luc Besson's late career output of euro-action garbage.
Rated 11 Sep 2017
75
49th
Put the camera down so that we can tell what the hell is going on.
Rated 23 Sep 2017
62
31st
Saldana makes a good anti-heroine, but a lot of the dialogue is painful. Character motivation consistently comes second to action sequences, and the plot is left weaker for it, especially when it relies on conveniences and contrivances. Watchable but meh!
Rated 09 Apr 2018
14
5th
Crappy Girls-with-guns-movie with some of the worst cinematography you will find anywhere in an action film.
Rated 29 Jun 2019
78
38th
Slightly less frantic than a typical Megaton film - there were action scenes where you could tell what was going on - the script is bad enough that it's still not good.
Rated 05 Jul 2019
70
42nd
I tend to enjoy Luc Besson's output, it's rarely great, but it's almost always reliably fun garbage. He only wrote and produced this one, turning the direction duties over to the magnificently named Olivier Megaton. It's got all his signature touches ... a kick-ass woman kicking ass, decent action sequences, and a cast who all look French no matter where the film is set. I enjoyed this one while marveling at how dumb it was the entire time. Saldana should headline more action flicks.
Rated 29 Dec 2019
29
8th
A movie so devoid of any ideas, you wonder how it can even exist. It's like the Taken sequels without people being taken.
Rated 06 Dec 2022
0
1st
My mom picked this. She ain't ever getting the remote again.
Rated 05 Feb 2023
78
55th
Give me Saldana as the next James Bond and I won’t complain... as expected from the legendary Megaton, this is a loud, ugly, often incoherent actioner largely relying on Saldana to both deliver as action hero and hold the enterprise together, which she manages with great style and class; covers similar ground to the concurrent SALT and HANNA, but it is Saldana’s work that elevates the film above those; she even manages to make the finale modestly moving.
Rated 27 Mar 2023
58
41st
Turn your brain off for this one. You might actually enjoy it that way.
Rated 28 Aug 2023
40
23rd
Passable if you’re half paying attention, but even the action isn’t particularly good.

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