Colombiana

This is the story of a woman who witnessed the murder of her parents when she was a little girl. Her father had crooked business with a crook in Colombia and after some business that you don’t really understand in the beginning, her father’s ‘boss’ comes after him and kills him and his wife but is not able to kill her, because she escapes.

And here’s where the movie started stinking for me.

Cataleya (the girl we are talking about here, played by Zoe Saldana) couldn’t have been more than 10 years old, but she manages to escape a gang of armed and trained men. She is very clever and finds a way to get to the United States and although she had never been there before, she easily finds her way to her relatives’ house… Come on! I know that movies are fictional, but they have make up better stories than that!

Upon arriving at her uncle’s house, she says she doesn’t want to study, she wants to become an assassin, because… you guessed it, she wanted to avenge her parents’ death.

From then on, the whole movie is very predictable.

She grows up, becomes this super woman who fights and kills all the bad guys who cross her path, and on she goes with her vengeance. She lives her whole life to get revenge and all her efforts are not able to make her happy. This is what happens when you seek revenge; you may even succeed but it doesn’t make anything right, it doesn’t fix things, it doesn’t bring you peace or makes you happy.

But going back to the movie, all I can say is that you don’t really need to watch until the end to know what happens. And if you don’t need to watch it until the end, you don’t need to watch it at all.

I do not recommend it :(


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