Very good action flick written and produced by Luc Besson. Zoe Saldana stars as the assassin and does it very well. She is convincing both as an actor and athlete. 'Colombiana' is an exciting movie with better action scenes and story than other much bigger movies from 2011

Nothing fantastic, but a decent action movie. Giving it 1 star is absolutely ridiculous. Very few movies deserve 1 (same goes for 10), yet here on IMDB it's wildly overused. If you can't see the difference in quality between an Ed Wood movie and Colombiana (production, story, acting etc.), you really shouldn't rate movies. Most likely you just enjoy shitting on things, which seems quite popular these days. A mediocre movie deserves 4-6 stars, not bloody 1, and if you watch enough movies you should at least learn to see the difference between shitty and mediocre. Colombiana is not great, but kept my interest up and it's clearly better than a shitload of other action movies. I rate it somewhere between 6 and 7, but round up because of all the idiotic 1's.

A while back, Luc Besson set up a scheme whereby he would write and produce a number of high-octane action movies, while at the same time allowing one of his protégés to direct. The results are sometimes middling - such as FROM Paris WITH LOVE - and sometimes very good, like the recent Guy Pearce starrer LOCKOUT. Sadly, COLOMBIANA is more middling than good, as everything about it is overly familiar.

The story sees a young woman out for revenge against the Colombian drug lord who had her parents slaughtered. Yawn. While there are the requisite assassination scenes and fights (including a pretty good bout in a bathroom), much of the film is slightly dull with lots of scenes copied from other movies. The police investigation resembles the one in the BOURNE films, there are blatant lifts from LEON (like the attack on the apartment) and overall there's a sense of weariness to the proceedings.

It's also rather silly. Zoe Saldana plays a character who seems to have been inspired by Ethan Hunt from the MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE series, and at times there's a superhero feel to the whole thing. It's fair to say that Saldana's acting is pretty poor, and the supporting characters are too predictable to allow anyone to make much of an impact (including the reliable Lennie James). The one good thing is that Olivier Megaton is getting better as director; this is an improvement over TRANSPORTER 3, while TAKEN 2 was an improvement over this. One day he might actually make a genuinely good film!