I went to see this last Tuesday at the Odeon Covent Garden. Show started on time and to a packed cinema.
The film was rather formulaic and predictable. It did not require much thinking and ticked all the boxes of a revenge thriller. It's not going to win any awards but it certainly entertained me on a Tuesday night after a hard day at the office.
I really liked the jail hit scene. Yes, there are definitely plot holes but if you can suspend belief for a little while the film is fine and works well.
I liked the Johnny Cash song at the end as I'm a Johnny Cash fan but I agree with another FMUKer that just by adding this song does not lift the intellectual content of the film.
7/10
Colombiana
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Re: Colombiana
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Interesting that the cinema was packed. I thought with the rubbish title, typical premise, lack of big star names and general negative reviews this one might flop. Maybe I'm wrong!
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Re: Colombiana
one of my fav JC songs, great video tootsoiboy wrote:I went to see this last Tuesday at the Odeon Covent Garden. Show started on time and to a packed cinema.
The film was rather formulaic and predictable. It did not require much thinking and ticked all the boxes of a revenge thriller. It's not going to win any awards but it certainly entertained me on a Tuesday night after a hard day at the office.
I really liked the jail hit scene. Yes, there are definitely plot holes but if you can suspend belief for a little while the film is fine and works well.
I liked the Johnny Cash song at the end as I'm a Johnny Cash fan but I agree with another FMUKer that just by adding this song does not lift the intellectual content of the film.
7/10
Re: Colombiana
Saw the trailer and was hooked by the fact that Luc Besson had something to do with it and it was also from the same people responsible for Taken - a much under-rated film in my opinion.
However, having sat through it, probably about the most positive thing I can say is that it was a "no-brainer entertainer"... poor dialogue, rather predictible plot... I think a lot of the action/gun-play scenes are the only thing which saved it from being utterly pants!
4 / 10 - Revenge has been done so much better in Taken and Kill Bill!
However, having sat through it, probably about the most positive thing I can say is that it was a "no-brainer entertainer"... poor dialogue, rather predictible plot... I think a lot of the action/gun-play scenes are the only thing which saved it from being utterly pants!
4 / 10 - Revenge has been done so much better in Taken and Kill Bill!
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Re: Colombiana
For anyone who missed this at the cinema its on Channel 4 on Saturday @ 9pm.
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2012- nearly made it my total was 90 + 3 theatre, 1 concert
2013 - 107 + 4 concerts 2
2014 - 95 - almost there
2015 - 97 - almost there again
2016 - 95
2017 - 87
2018 - 66
2019 - 77
2020 - 17
2021 - 30
2022 - 70
2023 - 31
2024 - 32
2025 - 25

Hopefully this year we will get more free Manchester screenings


Hoping to beat my 2024 total of 32

Want to see in 2025 - Mission Impossible: the Final Reckoning; Superman; Nobody 2;
2020, 21, 22, 23, 24 & 25 seen list viewtopic.php?f=4&t=36971#p406224[/color]
Cinemas in order of preference: Lowry, Trafford Centre, Great Northern (AMC), Printworks, Didsbury
2011- 69 films seen
2012- nearly made it my total was 90 + 3 theatre, 1 concert
2013 - 107 + 4 concerts 2
2014 - 95 - almost there
2015 - 97 - almost there again
2016 - 95
2017 - 87
2018 - 66
2019 - 77
2020 - 17
2021 - 30
2022 - 70
2023 - 31
2024 - 32
2025 - 25
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Re: Colombiana
...and again thanks