'Colombiana': Entertaining Action Flick

Enjoyed seeing "Colombiana" recently. The role seems tailor-made for Zoe Saldana, who gets to explore her Latina roots in this role as a bad-ass gun-slinger.

I appreciate what producer Luc Besson and the other filmmakers were trying to do - an update of "The Professional" with a woman of color in the lead role  (i.e., a young girl witnesses her parents' murder and sets her sights on revenge). On a side note, I was a bit taken aback seeing Jesse Borrego, from the TV show "Fame," playing Zoe's father in a flashback. What a departure, from a dancing high school kid to a professional killer!

"Colombiana" has done a'ight at the box office, so it probably will neither help nor hurt Zoe Saldana's career. It's certainly a great showcase for her as an action star. There's a really cool, stylized fight scene in the bathroom at the end in which the lead character uses a towel and toothbrushes to defend herself.

As much as I like the concept of "Colombina," I'm not sure about the latest round of female action flicks - "Salt" with Angelina Jolie, etc. Is this a step forward or backward for women, being just as cold and emotionless as their male counterparts as they pile up the body count? Maybe Zoe Saldana is simply picking up where Pam Grier left off in the '70s.