Vengeance is beautiful - COLOMBIANA

Movie Outlook: COLUMBIANA
· Not a review
By Samod Biobaku

Columbiana tells a story; not a story about the terrestrial cultures of Pluto, Neptune or Saturn but the story of a little girl surrounded by the vicissitudes of crime, violence, high-level corruption and other familiar members of the twisted entourage.

Emotions run wild and I have a 97 per cent conviction that a whole lot of people; especially those with the feminine dose of oestrogen in their bloodstreams would shed rivers of tears right from the very start of this movie.
Realistic in its plot; yet, with an alarming measure of stunt especially for a little girl barely more than 10 years old; although she grows eventually grows up to become something we are all familiar with.
Columbiana is not one of those movies that kick off on a sleepy note; leaving the viewer hoping and praying for action in order to keep the eyelids apart. Rather, guns, knives, speeding bullets, bleeding hands, a breath-taking chase and the silent pain of psychological misfortune of a little girl (an innocent child); arrests attention in a flash but not in the same mood as a loaded weapon aimed at one’s head.
Shot in the United States and Southern America, the movie takes us into the intrigues and uncertainties of a beautiful young lady in the wilderness of fraud, dirty cops and one would surely wonder how far she could go.
How many parents would survive the subtle knocks of a heart attack when a girl child with a haunted childhood looks up from her meal and verbalizes her burning desire to become a killer – If you miss the silent turbulence in her heart, then you cannot miss the blinding conviction in her eyes. Her name is Cataleya and in this story, you’ll follow the tale of an innocent child who had always imagined her days as an adult filled with dreams of accomplishments, a family of her own and so much more but instead, fate deals her the wrong aces and she ends up on the other side where darkness, sorrow, loneliness, blood, regrets and a pile of dead bodies dwell.
Her story tragically teaches how we all want one thing but end up with something much darker and graver that we ever imagined. We all have dreams but the nightmares of reality and fate constantly weave a web of grief and psychological turmoil over our individual and collective lives.
Take a seat and grab and sandwich, burger and a soda but be careful not to bite too deep into your lips as you might draw blood. Final warning, do not hold your breath for too long while watching else, this might prove you very last movie. Columbiana!
One question: How would it feel to have to attend the funeral of a member of your family each week knowing the killer is right behind you and there’s not a single thing you could do about it.
One last question: If you had to pick between being the person in the question above or being the 24th victim in a (murderous) hit parade, which would it be? Choose wisely.


COLUMBIANA cast

Zoë Saldana as Cataleya Restrepo
   
Amandla Stenberg as young Cataleya
   
Michael Vartan as Danny Delanay
   
Cliff Curtis as Emilio Restrepo
   
Lennie James as Special Agent James Ross
   
Callum Blue as Steve Richard
   
Jordi Mollà as Marco
   
Graham McTavish as Head Marshal Warren
   
Max Martini as Special Agent Williams
   
Jesse Borrego as Fabio Maria Restrepo, Cataleya's Father
   
Cynthia Addai-Robinson as Alicia Restrepo, Cataleya's Mother

Sam Douglas as William Woogard
   
Doug Rao as Michael Shino
   
Beto Benites as Don Luis Sandoval

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