A young woman, after witnessing her parents' murder as a child in Bogota, grows up to be a stone-cold assassin.
Saldana’s fresh, glossy look doesn’t disguise a strictly-by-the-numbers action flick that’s too close to recent Angelina Jolie vehicle Salt.
Occasionally enjoyable in a silly way, but I have to say Besson's preoccupation with the little-girl-becomes-killer trope is looking a little unwholesome.
Colombiana wants to be Bourne with boobs, but its connect-the-dots narrative and silted script means it can’t quite reach those bone-crunching heights.
The only way stuff like this works is if it Is lean and to the point, not self-important and flabby.
[The] lack of originality is made up for with tension and some damn fine gunfights.
There is one tense, ferocious scrap towards the denouement, but the set-pieces are otherwise as bland as the screenplay.
Colombiana is a sloppy but amusingly stupid action-vendetta flick.
Flat-out entertaining action movies are a rare commodities these days. They should be embraced.
It's as slick as an oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, as fast-moving as hurricane Emily and as memorable as an episode of The A-Team.
Colombiana proves that Luc Besson has a type...women with big guns.
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