Colombiana (2011)

Directed by

Olivier Megaton

Genre

drama film, action film, vigilante film, girls with guns

Country

France

Runtime

1h 48m

Rated

PG-13

Rating

6.6 of 10 from 2,895 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young girl witnesses her parents' murder by a drug lord in Colombia. She grows up to become a trained assassin and systematically hunts down those responsible.

tensegrittyvengefulstylishfast-pacedviolentemotionally chargedcold

What happens

Colombiana is a 2011 French English-language action thriller film co-written and produced by Luc Besson and directed by Olivier Megaton. The film stars Zoe Saldaña with supporting roles by Michael Vartan, Cliff Curtis, Lennie James, Callum Blue, and Jordi Mollà. The film is about Cataleya, a nine-year-old girl in Colombia whose family is killed by a drug lord. Fifteen years later, a grown Cataleya seeks her revenge. The film had a generally unfavorable reception from critics, but Saldaña's performance and action sequences were praised. It grossed $63.4 million against a $40 million production budget. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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