Angry Lurker Honest Movie Review 73: Colombiana 2011 (3 Stars).

A young woman grows up to be a stone cold assassin after witnessing her parents murder as a child in Bogota. She trains and works for her uncle as a hitman by day, but her personal time is spent engaging in vigilante murders that she hopes will lead her to her ultimate target, the monster responsible for her parents death!

The movie starts with Cataleya's (Zoe Saldana, not bad at all) parents who are part of a drug cartel trying to retire from said cartel but this news is not taken well by cartel boss and Cataleya (10 at this stage) is soon running for her life and through some dubious shenanigans ends up with her criminal uncle in America.

Fast forward to adult life.....

This is a movie about revenge and it's not a bad one but at times it's a little far fetched, there is good inventive action, some co-stars who you will recognise (maybe) and help the story along but this is about her quest for revenge and not even a love life will get in the way but suspend a little disbelief and you have a popcorn movie for a Saturday night with a loved one or the missus!

Screenplay was written by Luc Besson!

Angry Lurker Honest Movie Review 69: The Three Musketeers 2011 (3 STARS).

Doesn't follow the book or the other movies that exactly but all the players are there and the tale has been given a fresh but slightly over the top new look....

I like a bit of a historical romp and this is another version along with it's predecessors of the characters from the classic book, this version is a little over the top with slow motion effects, airships (Leonardo Da Vinci blueprints (a botched mission to steal these at the beginning disbands the Musketeers) , damn good cast, implausible script and good action set pieces (a lot of CGI) but not enough of them...

D'Artagnan heads to Paris at the beginning to join the now disbanded Musketeers, he offends the three musketeers and duels are set, they fight the cardinals guards (good scene), get reinstated including D'Artagnan, try to stop a plot by Richelieu (Christopher Waltz) to take the throne, Milady (Milla Jovovich) is still double crossing everybody, Rochefort (Mads Mikklesen) is less a buffoon in this one, the French king and Queen are trying to fall in love with each other, Constance is the love interest, Planchet (David Corden) is back and still a slight buffoon, Buckingham (Orlando Bloom) is a scene stealing git and airships battling in the skies and I mean airships and of course the three musketeers themselves (Matthew Macfayden, Ray Stevenson and Luke Evans ....

...is it better than 1993 and 1973 versions, no just different!

People have been hard on this movie but Netflix it if you can and it's popcorn of the highest order, nothing else!