Similarities Between Colombiana And Luc Besson

Colombiana, directed by Oliver Megaton and written Luc Besson, is an action-packed movie that was released on August 26, 2011. The movie is about a young Colombian woman named Cataleya, who witnessed her parents get murdered as a child, who then grows up to be an assassin to take revenge on the people who murdered her parents. The movie has a sexy touch due to its lead being Zoe Saldana, an American actress that has appeared in many great movies such as Avatar, Star Trek, and Drumline. Although, Saldana for most looks like very gentle and sweet actress, in this movie she is the complete opposite.
The movie starts off with Cataleya’s father talking to Don Luis (Beto Benites) about him leaving the business of drug-dealing, which Don Luis does not like at all. Due to his displeasure of Cataleya's father leaving the business he sends his right-hand man Marco (Jordi Molla) to kill Cataleya's entire family. Before Marco kills Cateleya's parents, her father gives her a chip that contains Din Luis's entire drug-dealing business plan and tells her …show more content…
But then again that is common in movies that are directed by Oliver Megaton. Due to his style on focusing too much on the action than in character development the movie falls short in emotion and a bit of action. The way that this is done is that the movie starts with a very young Cataleya experiencing her parents muder and then all of a sudden, the next scene after she asks her uncle Emilio that she wants to be a killer, fifteen years have passed and she is already an assassin. Since the audience did not see her growth to the cool badass assassin we see later in the movie, it cuts the audience off from having any connection with the protagonist. If this sudden jump was avoided it would have made the movie's character development a whole lot better because it gives a sense of connection from protagonist to the