Colombiana is an Angelina Jolie action-blockbuster without the Jolie. Enter Zoe Saldana, an actress Hollywood can’t quite pigeonhole, as Cataleya, a stock exotic-female vigilante poised to take on a slew of interchangeable male aggressors. The opening sequence — a chase that allows nine-year-old Cataleya (Amandla Stenberg) to show off her …
Four years up the road, and a new branch of law enforcement run out of out D.C. is about to take the training wheels off its latest enterprise: the American Peace Initiative, a signal that acts as a “synaptic blocker,” prohibiting people from intentionally performing unlawful acts. A trio of …
You wouldn’t know it at first glance, but sleepy-eyed Liam Neeson, fighting valiantly to assume the Charles Bronson mantle, and an even more lethargic Maggie Grace are both rolling in threequel clover. His false conviction of murder is what eventually starts the roller coaster ride in motion, but not before …
The glorified delivery man has been coerced into chauffeuring a freckled Ukrainian redhead to Budapest and beyond, strapped with an irremovable bracelet that will explode if he strays seventy-five feet from his Audi. Jason Statham offers himself up as an alternative to the rougher James Bond of Daniel Craig, together …
Aw, was it really too much to hope that they would just call it The Transporter Recast? Maybe Reskinned? Phooey. Anyway, pouty-lipped, chiseled-face Ed Skrein takes over for Jason Statham (age 48) in the have-car, will-deliver action series. And Camille Delamarre (Brick Mansions) takes over the director's chair from Olivier …