Film: Colombiana
Year 2011
Director: Olivier Megaton
Written by: Luc Besson and Robert Mark Kamen
Starring: Zoe Saldana, Jordi Molla, Lennie James, Amandla Stenberg, Michael Vartan, Cliff Curtis, Beto Benites, Jesse Borrego, Cynthia Addai-Robinson.
Running time: 108 min.
I must admit, I watch a lot of action films. But when I was watching Colombiana, I couldn't help but think, how do people write these films? How do they write these complex and intricate action scenes where people do stuff that no human should be able to do? How do they think of all these different ways to kill people? How do they make up all of these escape routes? How do they time when each explosion is going to be? When you think about it, writing an action film must be quite hard. Except, we can't put these action writers on a pedestal just yet, because more often or not, they're so tied up in trying to create the most perfectly set up action sequences that no-one can understand that they forget the basic things, like: a proper story, proper characters, and heart. Colombiana is a perfect example of that. While it has intricately detailed action sequences, it skips out on being a proper film and instead becomes a gallery of violence with some dull, lifeless scenes thrown in between.
