Colombiana (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Colombiana |
| Original title | Colombiana |
| Country of production | France |
| original language | English , Spanish |
| Publishing year | 2011 |
| length | 108 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 16 JMK 14 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Olivier Megaton |
| script |
Luc Besson Robert Mark Kamen |
| production | Luc Besson Ariel Zeitoun |
| music | Nathaniel Mechaly |
| camera | Romain Lacourbas |
| cut | Camille Delamarre |
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The film Colombiana is a 2010 French action thriller directed by Olivier Megaton . Zoe Saldana plays the main role of the avenger . Jordi Mollà , Cliff Curtis , Lennie James and Michael Vartan play supporting roles. With a production budget of $ 40 million, the film grossed $ 71 million worldwide. Also, in terms of plot, the film is very similar to the 1994 film Léon: The Professional .
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In Colombia , the henchmen of mafia boss Don Luis murder the parents of nine-year-old Cataleya. After Cataleya has bravely rammed a knife into the hand of one of the henchmen, Marco, she flees through the favelas of Bogotá and escapes her pursuers at the last second. She runs to the American embassy and gives the authorities a chip with valuable data. Before his death, her father had explained to her that this chip was her " passport ". Cataleya flies to Miami , Florida , escapes the US authorities immediately upon arrival and takes a bus to Chicago , Illinois . Once there, she visits her uncle Emilio, a gang boss in the Chicago underworld. The next morning, Cataleya explains to her uncle that she wants to become a professional killer, but he sends Cataleya to a normal school for the time being.
15 years later in California . An apparently heavily drunk young woman rams a police car with her car . The police arrest her and take her to a police station. That same evening, a dangerous prisoner is brought to the police station. It is a henchman of Don Luis. At the same time, the apparently sleeping woman wakes up in her cell. It is Cataleya, who only pretended to be drunk to get to Don Luis' henchman in the cell block and murder him. In the past few years, she has actually become an accomplished killer. She succeeds in this murder too; she slips back into her cell and is released. The investigating special agent James Ross determines that it is another murder of the so-called sketch killer , who always paints a Cattleya orchid on the chest of his victims . Ross suspects that these sketches were not intended as a message for the police, but for intended for someone else. Meanwhile, Cataleya arrives back in Chicago and meets with her boyfriend Danny. Cataleya meets with her uncle in a laundry and receives a new assignment. She later finds out that Don Luis is under the protection of the CIA . Cataleya kills another of his minions by shooting him and dropping him into a pool of sharks. When she arrives home, she waits for her boyfriend, but doesn't answer his questions. The next morning Danny takes a picture of the sleeping Cataleya with his cell phone.
She meets her angry uncle in a library. He tells her that Don Luis has become aware and has killed eight people in Miami. He fires her for endangering her family and gives her a photo to remind her of who she used to be. Meanwhile, the amorous Danny shows a friend the photo of Cataleya and complains that he doesn't really know anything about his "Jennifer". The friend wants to do Danny a favor and sends the photo to his sister-in-law at the police station for identification. Special Agent James Ross learns immediately that someone is looking for Cataleya in the database and can trace the lead. Cataleya drives to the church where her uncle and his mother are sitting. During this service , she is reconciled with the family.
The police drive to Cataleya's apartment after detecting a signal from her cell phone. Cataleya escapes from her home and drives to her uncle's house, where she is horrified to discover that he is dead, as well as his mother and his faithful assistant. She is devastated and now wants revenge for the whole family. She visits Special Agent Ross, explains her situation and, under threat of violence against his family, demands that he go to the CIA to find out the address of Don Luis. Ross does the same the next day, but the arrogant agent of the CIA initially refuses to give the address and only gives in when Cataleya calls Ross on the cell phone and shoots through the bulletproof window of the CIA office as a warning. She then drives to New Orleans , Louisiana , and blackmails the floor plan of the house in which Don Luis lives.
Cataleya attacks the house and after a long, brutal fight kills all of Don Luis' henchmen, including Marco, who once killed her family. Don Luis escapes in his van when Cataleya calls him from Marco's cell phone. He takes the call on the speakerphone. After he furiously vows to take revenge on her and hunt her to her death and she would never find him again, Cataleya replies that he is exactly where she wants him. Two trained watchdogs from Cataleya, which she had previously hidden in the car and who had kept quiet until then, then kill him on her command.
In the meantime, Danny was summoned to the station. Cataleya gives him a quick call, tells him her real name, and hangs up when Special Agent Ross tries to speak to her. In the final scene, Cataleya takes the bus towards sunset. Their fate remains uncertain.
Reviews
The differences of opinion between the critics and the "normal" audience are great. On the Rotten Tomatoes website , the film was able to convince around 28 percent of the critics, the number was far higher with the audience, where the film was able to convince around 67 percent of the votes.
“Ice-cold feelings of revenge, perfectly staged choreographically: Cataleya, played by Zoë Saldana, is a professional killer - and particularly good at making her work look so that nobody thinks of murder. The US-French action thriller 'Colombiana' is a tribute to Hollywood genre cinema, but exaggerates it into the perverse. "
“A killer without a story, banging around without a plot: with the lousy action thriller 'Colombiana', Luc Besson even brings his early films into disrepute. [...] That story and character are dismissed as so irrelevant and are a mere pretext for the next shootout, that the always emotionless heroine of the film emerges without any scratches from all the arguments and not a moment in herself, her murders and this cruel world doubts is just plain annoying. […] But Colombiana is not interested in the tragedy behind the violence. Over 107 minutes of playing time, the film actually wastes any opportunity to develop something like depth or empathy. "
“The premise of the grown-up professional killer [...] is fulfilled, but not filled with the emotional complications that this should carry with it. There are wonderfully contrasted images of the cold blue drug swamp and the yellowish shimmering heat over the corrugated iron settlements of Bogotá, followed by sensational battle scenes, perfectly choreographed and packaged in a high-gloss aesthetic that lets everything ricochet that does not have the penetration power of Cataleya's bullets. Accordingly, the classic revenge film does not have much heart and mind; rather it seems that with the increasing number of victims, not only the killer but also the film has lost its sympathy. "
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Colombiana . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , August 2011 (PDF; test number: 128 950 K).
- ↑ Age rating for Colombiana . Youth Media Commission .
- ^ Colombiana. In: UniFrance , July 31, 2015.
- ^ Colombiana. Retrieved July 29, 2020 .
- ^ Colombiana (2011). Retrieved July 29, 2020 .
- ↑ Fritz Göttler: Master of Murder. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , September 10, 2011.
- ↑ Daniel Erk: Swan song on the killer film genre. In: Zeit Online , September 13, 2011.
- ↑ Kathrin Hager: Colombiana. In: film-dienst , September 2011.
Web links
- Colombiana in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Colombiana at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
- Colombiana at Metacritic (English)
- Colombiana in the online film database