A young girl in Bogotá witnesses her parents' murder and grows up to be a stone-cold assassin.A young girl in Bogotá witnesses her parents' murder and grows up to be a stone-cold assassin.A young girl in Bogotá witnesses her parents' murder and grows up to be a stone-cold assassin.
- Awards
- 2 wins & 5 nominations
Ángel Garnica
- Pepe
- (as Angel Garnica)
Affif Ben Badra
- Genarro Rizzo
- (as Afif Ben Badra)
- Director
- Writers
- All cast & crew
- Production, box office & more at IMDbPro
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThe film was based on a script that was set to be a sequel for Léon: The Professional (1994). The story was set to follow Natalie Portman's character Mathilda as she tracked down and killed characters that had wronged her and Leon. Due to rights issues with the studio behind the first film, it was canceled and the script was turned into this film.
- GoofsEarly on, 10-year-old Cataleya is running from the thugs who just killed her parents. She escapes by quickly jumping into a curbside storm drain opening which the thugs are too big to enter. Moments later, Cataleya is climbing out of a partially opened manhole cover in the middle of a busy street. Manhole covers are made of cast iron and weigh 249 pounds; she never would have been able to move it.
- Quotes
Don Luis Sandoval: You have ruined your whole life trying to kill me? Someone like me? I cannot be killed. I do the killing. And now it's your turn to be hunted. You will never find me. But as day follows night, believe me, I'll find you, and I will kill you! And you know why? Because I will never be where you want me to be!
Cataleya: Actually, you're exactly where I want you to be.
Don Luis Sandoval: Huh?
[dogs start barking]
Don Luis Sandoval: Aah!
Cataleya: Eat...
- Alternate versionsThree versions of this film exist:
- the original international theatrical version
- the US theatrical version, which was cut to secure a PG-13 rating
- the US unrated version, which not only restores the cuts made for the theatrical version but also includes some additional violence (i.e. the shooting of Cataleya's parents)
- ConnectionsFeatured in WatchMojo: Top 10 Movie Fights in Bathrooms (2014)
- SoundtracksAve Maria
Composed by Franz Schubert
(p) & (c) The Extreme Music Library Ltd.
With courtesy of Extreme Music France
Featured review
An entertaining escapist film and nothing more
COLOMBIANA, while a highly entertaining revenge film with a strong female lead, is let down by clichéd storytelling and lack of character development. The story is about Cataleya, a woman whose parents were murdered when she was a child. She then becomes an assassin who sets out to avenge her parents' deaths. As far as the action is concerned, I was pleasantly surprised that Olivier Megaton reined in his tendency to over-shoot and edit. The action sequences were all well put-together and comprehensible, although a final act fight scene in a bathroom kind of dipped back into what I generally don't like about modern action sequences. As far as acting was concerned, nobody gave a bad performance (even the actress who played young Cataleya), but it's a shame that they had such a poor script to work with. The weakest part of this movie, and what really does it in, is the story. The audience is never given a window into who Cataleya is or even care aside from the fact that her parents were murdered in front of her. As an adult, she is emotionally distant and has very little personality. Sure, you could say that it's part of the character but I didn't find it very compelling. There's also the issue of everything in the plot being implausible and convoluted. Again, this is escapist entertainment but a lot of those elements really took me out of the movie. Ultimately, though, I had a decent time. The film is by no means boring, but there are a lot of better ones which tackle similar subject matter, e.g., Luc Besson's Leon, to which this is perhaps too similar.
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- brchthethird
- Oct 11, 2014
Details
- Release date
- Countries of origin
- Official sites
- Languages
- Also known as
- Nữ Sát Thủ Colombia
- Filming locations
- Production companies
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Box office
- Budget
- $40,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $36,665,854
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $10,408,176
- Aug 28, 2011
- Gross worldwide
- $71,508,440
- Runtime1 hour 48 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.39 : 1
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