Colombiana (+ UltraViolet Digital Copy) [Blu-ray] Reviews

Co-writer and producer Luc Besson has established himself as the godfather of the modern revenge flick. In his Transporter films, Jason Statham plays a man is tasked with bringing down those who cross him. In his successful Taken, Liam Neeson plays a man intent on exacting great vengeance upon those who kidnapped his daughter, and all the way back to his 1990 film, Leon (The Professional), Besson was placing the heavy hand of revenge upon the foes of a very young Natalie Portman whose father was murdered in front of her. And so we have Colombiana, born of that cloth and soaked with the furious and stylized action that has become staples of this thriving sub-genre. The results are not equal to Besson’s prior successes, but Saldana’s performance makes up much of the ground lost to familiar plotting and other plot/direction drawbacks.

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