After the death of her parents, Cataleya learns the way of a killer carrying out her assignments with cold, frightening efficiency and dreams of avenging her family.
Given the acrobatic fight skills Zoe Saldana displayed in Avatar, and since producer Luc Besson's stock-in-trade is the female assassin film, 'Colombiana' was a match made in She-Terminator heaven.
Megaton blows things up, demolishes a fruit market, and throws in some parkour foot-chases as if he's completing a checklist.
Deadspin
June 22, 2013
You keep wanting "Colombiana" to go all the way in one direction, or all the way in the other. Instead, it just sits there, content to give Saldana a lollypop.
There's bad acting all around, but you can't fully blame the performers. The dialogue needed a writer to come in and punch it up - the lines sound like placeholders.
