In the same vein as such films as
La Femme Nikita,
Colombiana is the tragic tale of a life gone in the wrong direction. Written by Luc Besson, who has made a career of telling the story of women forced into a life of assassination,
Colombiana only differs in the details. A young girl witnesses the murders of her mother and father, who have been betrayed by the drug lord that they have been serving. She narrowly escapes with incriminating evidence against said kingpin, and uses this to immigrate to the United States and goes to live with her uncle, himself a strong arm/assassin. She learns the trade and becomes a social chameleon, weaving in and out of situations and avenging the deaths of her parents. In true Besson style, she becomes involved with a man who wants to know all about her, but she is secretive and he becomes suspicious. She also has an overly diligent FBI agent who has been tracking her "progress" across the country. This is a very derivative movie, but it is exciting nonetheless.
Zoe Saldana is wonderful as the adult Cataleya, but the young actress who plays the nine year old Cataleya, Amandla Stenberg, is magnificent. She showed such amazingly raw emotion during the entirety of her ordeal, that I believed she may have actually gone through this. The movie also stars Lenny James as FBI agent Ross, Jordi Molla as Marco, the assassin hunting Cataleya, and Michael Vartan as corrupt CIA agent Delanay.
La Femme Nikita is a superior movie, but that is not to say that
Colombiana is bad. There needed to be a bit more action for my taste, and the adult Cataleya is a bit one dimensional, but the film holds up as a very good, modern action movie. Her first assassination is particularly cool. 8/10.
See you tomorrow, and GO WATCH A MOVIE!!
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