The joys of an assassin movie! Assassins always seem to be bigger than life, a super hero or a brutal villain. It lends itself to the spy genre so you get the chance of sneaky characters, twisting plots and excellent action scenes. Often hit or miss from picture to picture, Colombiana lands right in the middle….average at best.

There’s nothing new or terribly interesting going on in Colombiana. Zoe Saldana plays the lead, Cataleya, who witnesses her parents death by the drug cartel that her father worked for. Swearing revenge, her career in death starts many years later, always with her eyes on the man that ordered her parents death. That’s it. Every plot point you are thinking of right now, happens. It’s a paint by the numbers story with the requisite action, the superfluous love interest and some goofy stuff (her attack dogs) stuck in for some flavor.

Now, it’s not a bad movie. It’s well made (the direction in the first chase scene was amateur at best though), well acted and the action is serviceable. A good rainy day rental, but if you skip it, you aren’t missing anything.