AsidesSome Came Running by Glenn Kenny

The current cinema

By August 25, 2011January 12th, 20263 Comments

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You gotta hand it to the French—even when they’re being crassly com­mer­cial they’ve got taste. Colombiana, an image from which is above, not only knows from Danger: Diabolik, obvi­ously, but it’s even got a John Martyn song on the soundtrack. Classy. I enjoyed it, as my review for MSN Movies also attests; and I did­n’t much mind Our Idiot Brother, which I also review. 

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3 Comments

  • jbryant says:
    August 25, 2011 at 5:13 pm

    Been look­ing for­ward to COLOMBIANA a lot, because I’m a total suck­er for these latter-day Besson-produced action­ers (BANLIEUE 13, TRANSPORTER, UNLEASHED, TAKEN, etc.). They’re fun, if rather brutal.

  • Not David Bordwell says:
    August 25, 2011 at 5:41 pm

    Zoe Saldana:John Phillip Law::Uma Thurman:Bruce Lee?
    “Deep deep down…”

  • Cadavra says:
    August 27, 2011 at 5:23 pm

    Glenn, your review glossed over one of the film’s more inter­est­ing points: the FBI are the good guys and the CIA are the bad guys–a dis­tinc­tion one does­n’t often see.