Colombiana is a solid, entertaining action film. It’s no nowhere near as good as Taken, which it is often compared to because they share the same director. There was something so real and unmanipulative about Taken, and this straightforwardness made it one of the most thrilling and satisfying “one man army” movies I’ve ever seen. Colombiana, on the other hand, is more like your standard “super-warrior” kind of film. Much of it is outrageous and very hard to believe, they make very little effort in the way of explaining anything, and I thought Zoe Saldana was just okay in the lead role (I really like her as an actress, just not in this kind of role.) I thought the sped-up fighting looked rather bad, not anywhere near as bad as Hanna, but still distractingly bad. I don’t understand why the first big instance of sped-up fighting (Bourne) still looks better than all the examples that followed – shouldn’t it be the other way around? Why are we moving backward?

Don’t get me wrong, I actually enjoyed this film. I enjoyed it more than The Debt, which I saw the day before. But I would never watch it again, and I didn’t really take anything away from the film.