Trailer Park: Zoe Saldana Busts Tons Of Guns In “Colombiana”

Luc Besson, the writer behind such action favorites as The Professional and The Transporter, is back in female assassin territory with, Colombiana, directed by the ridiculously named Olivier Megaton. Starring Zoe Saldana, Colombiana deals with a killer chick who gets revenge on her parents’ slayers years after their death.

Back in 1994, when The Professional debuted, female assassins were pretty rare, but flicks like Domino and Hanna have come out and expanded upon the subject. It remains to be seen whether or not Besson can add something new to the story or if he’s just out of touch.

Unfortunately, the trailer suggests the latter. Many of the adrenaline-fueled action flicks that have flooded the market recently (Taken and The Mechanic, for instance) come to mind while watching the clip, and Colombiana doesn’t look like it’s going to stretch too far above the already established notions of action movies being loud, violent, and full of gratuitous sex. Which is at least tolerable when you've got Saldana in tiny lingerie and carrying heavy firepower.

Speaking of which, Saldana does have the raw sex appeal and brooding veneer that just might just make this one work. But if there isn’t a fresh story behind it, Saldana’s performance will just get lost in the shuffle.

Will Besson and Megaton actually make this well worn genre fresh again? We’ll see when Colombiana is released on September 2.

[Via Yahoo! Movies]

Trailer Park: “The Hangover Part II” (Starring Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms & Zach Galifianakis)

The Hangover Part II is already giving us deja vu, and not in a good way. After a drunken night, one of the Wolf Pack's members goes missing. But instead of Vegas, it takes place in Bangkok. Despite some skepticism, Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, and Zach Galifianakis fearlessly traverse across a foreign terrain where they’re accompanied by a monkey, the same partying Asian mobster from Sin City (Ken Jeong), and a disabled man in a wheelchair.
Needless to say, now we're nervous. This first trailer pretty much assures that the sequel will the unfold exactly the same way as the first. Plus, unlike the original, when we weren’t familiar with the characters or the arrangement, this time we all know the deal. Can new faces (including our recent cover girl Jamie Chung) and a different locale make up for the lacking originality? We certainly hope the tattoo on Ed Helms’ face or bald cut donned by Zach Galifianakis were done after something extremely mind blowing.
We’ll save our skepticism until we see the film on May 26.