The film opens in Colombia, where a young girl named Cataleya Restrepo (Zoe Saldana) sees his parents murdered at the hands of gangsters control of a man named Don Luis (Beto Benitez). Managing to survive on their own, she went to Chicago to live with his uncle White (Cliff Curtis) and her train him as a murderer. After fifteen years, she was an elite assassin with plans to take revenge on those who took his family away, but with a smart FBI agent (Lennie James) right on its tail, it must be done before that it is too late.
If this sounds like an intense plot scheme, since it is generic, and at no time during the movie trying to Colombian right than wrong. Everything about the movie, the characters of the structure, is pinched from a thousand other examples of the subgenre of revenge. But even when the film tries to copy something that has worked in Leon: The Professional and La Femme Nikita makes a disorderly manner that ends up being a disadvantage for the film. Just as Leon and Mathilda had Cataleya Marco Nikita has a relationship with a normal person, an artist played by Michael Vartan, but the script makes little effort to establish a personal connection. Instead of being a gateway to a world beyond death and weapons, which just looks as if the occasional booty call.
Then there is the story of motivator: Cataleya mission of vengeance. Again, this is evident in every character development would have been great, but the total absence of the exhibition also hurts the film. When the main character has grown and become more clean, you demonstrated that he is, has the tags on all his victims to gain the attention of Don Luis, but has never explained how he was murdered by men linked to Colombian Kingpin.
Nothing, however, the fact that Don Luis never Cataleya and share a single scene together throughout the film. Instead, contact the hero of his enemies is entirely limited to a conversation he had with Luis straight man, Marco (Jordi Molla), who was present when her parents were killed. Probably because of the movie PG-13, there is no time when the public learns to despise the poor, as when the family of Gary Oldman Natalie Portman on the massacre of professionals. Movie fans can understand why Cataleya wants revenge, but because the plot and characters are so underdeveloped that they are never given a reason to be invested.
The action and fight sequences, shot with skill by director Olivier Megaton, prevent the coating film completely flat. Although the film has little crazy, explosive scenes that makes them feel as if the characters have fuel pumping through their veins, the filmmaker manages to make a paste with a little and always gives the public awareness of space and context. Beats greater efforts are largely related to the final act of the film, but Megaton is a solid work of building excitement, while Cataleya performs two shots in the middle of the film, one in prison and the other in a property in Mexico.
On the one hand the action, which ultimately kills the film is a total lack of originality or initiative. The plot and characters are paint by numbers and even the elements come together without care. The premise is hung on the idea that the murderer with a need for revenge for the revenge is more than enough for the public, but this is simply not true. A film needs depth, and needs, as it requires emotion. Colombia has none of these things.
