YMMV / Colombiana

• Arc Fatigue: As noted below, Cataleya's journey to find Emilio takes up too much screentime.
• Awesome Music: Johnny Cash's cover of “Hurt” plays over the end credits.

• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • The uncle raised Cataleya into a Tyke Bomb. His actor did the same thing in The Last Airbender.
  • This isn't the only Besson movie to have a Marvel actress in the lead role. Lucy had Scarlett Johansson (Black Widow) portray the titular character and The Professional would be the first major onscreen role for Natalie Portman who would go on to portray Jane Foster in Thor the same year Colombiana came out. Guess which Marvel movie that Zoe Saldana would eventually be cast.
• Magnificent Bitch: Cataleya Restrapo is an assassin seeking revenge against Don Luis for the death of her parents. Cataleya shows tenacity even as a child, as she manages to evade all of Don Luis' thugs chasing her and eventually makes her way to America. Over the years, Cataleya leaves a trail of corpses, each the result of meticulous assassinations to draw out Don Luis, racking up a body count of over 20. When the FBI close in on her, Cataleya demonstrates her on-the-feet nature as she manages to evade them from her apartment. With the death of her uncle Emilio, Cataleya storms Don Luis' compound, catching them all off guard and slaughters all of them. Despite Don Luis' taunting efforts to escape, Cataleya reveals that she left a trap for him, resulting in his demise, her revenge complete and giving herself a chance to start a new life.
• Romantic Plot Tumor: The movie goes through a lot of trouble to highlight the relationship between Cataleya and Danny—when the audience has no idea how or when these two characters even got together.
• Retroactive Recognition: Rue was a young Cataleya. The second Naevia played Cataleya's mother.
• Slow-Paced Beginning: The movie spends thirty minutes of its one hour and forty-eight minute runtime showing how Catlaleya reaches the United States and finds her uncle. The movie only really gets going after the time skip.
• Spiritual Adaptation: It's basically a Huntress movie in all but name.
• Spiritual Successor: The movie began life as a sequel to Leon: The Professional and mainly centered around a grown-up Mathilda Lando becoming a "cleaner" much like her deceased mentor Leon Montana as well as being set in the same universe as La Femme Nikita, but was changed into something else over the years due to Gaumont holding the intellectual rights to the property and Luc Besson leaving the company after the failure of 1998's The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc.

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