The world needs more female action heroes. Yeah they exist but they’re a bit few and far between. Milla Jovovich probably counts with her roles in the Resident Evil films and others and Michelle Rodriguez, who’s known for playing almost exclusively tough chicks, might count if she ever actually starred in a film rather than play a supporting role…or actually survived the film. But in general we don’t really have lady action stars the way we have with the dudes. And I’m not certain Zoe Saldana would have been my first choice to star in an action vehicle. She’s so…skinny. Seriously, she’s rail thin. I can see bones, man. Then again I never really thought of Liam Neeson as being any sort of action hero and yet he keeps getting cast in action films (Though truth be told Liam Neeson seems to say “yes” to any offer he gets considering he stars in about eleven thousand films a year.)
Anyway Colombiana was directed by Olivier Megaton (Badass name) and billed was being made by the people who did 2008’s Taken, which was a surprisingly cool film. This usually implies that the movies are similar since it has the same creative team. However it has become obvious to me that they really just meant it shares the same producer which means…almost nothing for the quality of the film. I wasn’t going to watch this movie but, wouldn’t you know it, every single movie I planned on seeing for the past month had left theatres by the time I was ready to go see one. It was either this or Bucky Larson: Born to be Star. Colombiana it is.
Full review after the jump.
