Famous words of Jean-Luc Godard, that all you need to make the "Girl with a gun", the film really does not hold, Luc Besson - PARIS. In his world, you need a girl who wears as little as possible, and at least fifty weapons, preferably by firing at the same time. This formula is applied to Colombia, the latest effort EuropaCorp produced and co-written by Besson and directed by Olivier Megaton author house, staging is often as thin as his last name sounds like. Yet, there is a guilty pleasure would be in this hectic B, played by Zoe Saldana (Avatar, Star Trek), who gives a performance that makes the material too acrobatic terracotta watchable, if not entirely pleasant.
$ 40 million English-language action drama of France rolls out on July 27, when Sony offshoot of Stage 6 Films to manage all media in the U.S. In both cases, the promise of the film - more than fulfilled - to distribute a lot of bullets and a bra should help to increase the number of hours, after which the solid back-end business side EuropaCorp Hitman franchise and the Transporter (the third, which was directed by Megaton).
You know you're in the early minutes of the film Besson has a 10-year-old girl (Amandla Stenberg) Head throbbing of the drug (by Jordi) is a Rambo knife in his hand, then jump out the window and use a number of parkour acrobatics around the slums of Bogota, until it arrives at the U.S. Embassy, where he vomited on the table, and CIA agent (Callum Blue). If this is not enough for you, wait for the next order, where he steals to Chicago to visit his uncle (Cliff Curtis), the death of a player, after which it is trying to give him a serious lesson in life by shooting the Colt. 45 random victims in front of the elementary school.
So a lot of background, which was designed to show how Cataleya (Saldana), was so traumatized by the death of their parents' in the hands of Colombian Kingpin (Beto Benites), that 15 years later, he became one of the intention of the woman fight the machine to remove the entire sign. Prepared in a sort of follow-up Besson's Nikita, the scenario (co-written by Robert Mark Kamen on a regular basis, the creator of The Karate Kid), however, lacks the subtlety to be found in a lot of ARTIER 1990 thriller, which has together a killer show and fireworks is a charming way.
The point here is to strip Ms. Saldana to the minimum and after releasing their (sometimes literally) of an action scene to another. This does not mean it comes without its charms Colombian own, and escape sequences of two careers and demonstrate that the actress can provide both physical rigor and a certain level of class to the falls. Other times just to show how many times Megaton must have seen the Jason Bourne series, where once a robs bathroom fight in-your-face and a scene where someone calls in an office Cataleya ... from an office in the building opposite.
Before ending things with a drug dealer people as the shooting have not been seen Commando, the movie stops for a little inspiration in the head to head Saldana and Lennie James (24 Hour Party People), who plays a detective in Chicago - arguably the most thoughtful represented on the screen. These scenes show that from time to time, Besson and Co. may cut all the fat and fireworks to make something that vaguely resembles what the writer-producer-director who was once able to get back in the day.
Opens: July 27 (France)
Production companies: EuropaCorp, TF1 Films Productions, Grive Productions
Cast: Zoe Saldana, Jordi Molla, Lennie James, Amandla Stenberg, Michael Vartan, Cliff Curtis, Beto Benites, Jesse Borrego
Director: Olivier Megaton
Screenwriters: Luc Besson, Robert Mark Kamen
Producers: Luc Besson, Ariel Zeitoun
Executive producer: Ajoz Films
Director of photography: Romain Lacourbas
Production designer: Patrick Durand
Music: Nathaniel Mechaly
Costume designer: Olivier Beriot
Editor: Camille Delamarre
Sales Agent: EuropaCorp
No rating, 104 minutes
