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80All of that combines to make Colombiana into a scandalous blend of action, sex and violence. My apologies in advance for having so much fun.
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75In catsuits, swimsuits, and skimpy underthings, Saldana is as potently elusive as a shadow can be.
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Aug 20, 201170The Olivier Megaton-directed Colombiana may not be the brainiest of actioners, but one of the merits of producer Luc Besson's latest brainchild is that fanboys worldwide will come away with a scrap of horticultural knowledge as well as a pretty good time.
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Aug 29, 201163Colombiana isn't the last word in action movies, but it's a fun ride. And so wrong.
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63Zaldana is such a sultry and surprisingly heartfelt executioner that she often finds a way to make this by-the-numbers genre retread feel, if not fresh, then at least sporadically electric.
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63Saldana is in top form for the acrobatics required in the role, and she makes the gritty determination of her character believable.
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Aug 28, 201160Saldana makes this watchable, James supplies a fitful plausibility, and director Olivier Megaton (a former graffiti artist) keeps things racing along, preposterously.
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60Zoe Saldana makes being an action hero look so easy in Colombiana, you have to wonder why more actresses don't try it.
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60The jittery aesthetic is a bit grating - there's a three-cut minimum per roundhouse kick - but the spectacularly named Olivier Megaton (Transporter 3) still manages to deliver the action-film goods.
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58It uses a story about family as a vehicle for glorifying gangsterism. In other words, it's empty, amoral, and - in the style of other Besson productions - surprisingly easy to digest.
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50Possibly worth seeing if you are 13, as the hot Rihanna-looking chick shows sideboob.
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50It's basically a blaxploitation movie stretched to meaninglessly international proportions that leans on tired Colombian stereotypes. But if Saldana's aiming to be some kind of new Pam Grier, she needs to save more than herself.
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Aug 26, 201150Colombiana is silly fun at first, but as her break-ins and escapes grow absurdly complex - and her motivations increasingly muddy - it turns into the same silly stuff we've seen before, a dish of revenge served not so much cold as reheated.
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Aug 26, 201150Colombiana, though, doesn't quite qualify as a chick flick. The filmmakers were surely thinking of the guys when they arranged for Saldana to play many of her scenes in a cat suit, a bikini or lingerie.
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50The overall effect is distancing; there are some early comic moments that have you laughing along with the movie, but eventually the clashing tones and preposterousness just have you laughing.
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Aug 25, 201150While most action films fall apart because they succumb to stupidity, Colombiana suffers most because it tries to be too smart.
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Aug 20, 201150There are guilty pleasures to be had in this frenzied B starring Zoe Saldana (Avatar, Star Trek), who gives an acrobatic performance that makes the overcooked material watchable, if not entirely enjoyable.
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40Luc Besson's Jumping Frog Action Factory looks mighty lame in Colombiana.
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40A movie so addicted to the crack pipe of delirious cinematic badness that it has real potential as a camp classic.
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38As straight exploitation, it's amusing, in fits and starts. It's just that Colombiana lacks the kinetic energy of "The Transporter" and the pathos of "La Femme Nikita."
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20Colombiana is one long megayawn; I'd have garnered more titillating thrills rewatching freckle-faced Russkie sexbomb Natalya Rudakova strut her leggy, sassy stuff in Megaton and Besson's "Transporter 3."
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12Luc Besson keeps ralphing up scripts about beautiful lady killers, but that doesn't mean you have to keep seeing them. Case in point: Colombiana...[a] dull cable-TV-quality item.