Film

Edwin Vega

Mr. Ken Carpenter

MMC

October 10, 2011

Film

            “Colombiana” was the movie me and my pal selected to go see on Wednesday October 5 for the class assignment. I chose the film “Colombiana” due to the fact that plenty of my friends gave the movie a lot of good reviews on their facebook statuses and was the topic of conversations in school for quite some time. Moreover, the motion picture gave the leading role to Zoe Saldana, which is one of my favorite actresses, and that influenced me greatly to consider watching the film in the theater. I adore watching attractive women fight and kill men while looking sexy at the same time, so that was when I decided to pick the film “Colombiana”.

            The film met all my expectations to the fullest. The movie had amazing action scenes and Zoe Saldana (the actress) was the cherry on top of the ice-cream. The plot of the story was very interesting and it kept the audience at the edge of their seat. In addition, the movie had a very Hispanic flavor in it; being that I am Hispanic it made me understand and relate to the movie even more, specially in all the family scenes. Movies like “Colombiana” is what makes me actually want to pay to go to the theater and enjoy motion pictures instead of watching it online.

Furthermore, being that I am such a film freak, I give the movie “Colombiana” a nine out of ten, which is really good considering that I never give a movie a ten. In my opinion the movie was intense from start to finish and was one of those movies that kept the audiences’ attention at all times. Also one thing I loved about the movie was that it was not predictable at all whatsoever and I do enjoy putting the pieces of the puzzle together as I am watching the movie and not know what will happen next. For me Zoe Saldana reminds me of a younger Angelina Jolie, they are both beautiful women who make action films get away from the normal tradition of male domination. The movie overall has had mixed reviews within its critical response and has been criticized for stereotyping the Colombian culture; however, the movie did well bringing in $60,145,421 worldwide and it’s honestly one of my favorite films.

The movie theater is something I do enjoy going to a lot, but I don’t do it often due to my hectic schedule and because the film has to really stand out in some way or another for me to make a decision weather I will go to the theater or not. Most of the time, I just watch movies online for free and that hinders me from going to the movie theater. Watching movies online is way more convenient for me due to: time, money, finding someone to go with, and transportation; therefore, I go to the movie theater once every two months due to my circumstances. The disadvantages of going to the theater are many, but so are the advantages and at the end of the day we cannot lose the old tradition of going to the theater because it brings society together.