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Friday, January 6, 2012

Columbiana (2011)


The story about a vindictive assassin girl is not new, but this story definitely has some innovations. The character is built on a vengeance, and as we watch we sympathize all her actions. Her exquisite looks make the film even more attractive to watch. She kills fast, efficient, smooth, you can’t even see her moves, that how good of an assassin she is, and on the other hand, she had to alienate from everybody (boyfriend, uncle, grandmother) to become the best there is, and to find the one responsible for her transformation, her parent’s killer. She (Cataleya) the main protagonist, after seeing her parents get killed in front of her in their home in Bogotá, smartly runs away to her family in Chicago. There by the guidance of her uncle, she becomes top assassin. Although she learns how to be invisible, she didn’t learn to let her vengeance go. Witch is the catalyst of the all story. After each kill, she draws an orchid, her family emblem just to transfer a message to her parent’s killer that she didn’t forget, and she is coming. Eventually she gets the message through, action witch will doom her uncle and grandmother, casualties that she earlier didn’t understand will fall.
Some of the scenes are original, which I love and they are the ones that make this movie excellent, and exiting while you watch. The poll crossing with sharks in, was one of those scenes. At the end, she did the only thing that was in her mind ever since she was a child; revenge her family, but at what price?! She is now alone, and has no one, which poops the question, has it been really worth it?!