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 skills at parkour — harkens back to the breezy, rapid-fire action of writer/producer Luc Besson’s past glories (District B13 , Taken). The film doesn’t mature along with her. Flash forward 15 years, as Besson and cowriter Robert Mark Kamen’s garden-variety plotting steamrolls logic. Don’t wardens watch movies? One would think that by now every correctional facility in America would have learned to tighten the screws on their air-vent escape routes. Directed by Olivier Megaton (Transporter 3), with solid support from Cliff Curtis and Lennie James. (2011) — Scott Marks
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