Director James Cameron frames the story of the TITANIC in the late 1990s, when a high-tech underwater mission uncovers hidden treasures from the legendary ship, including a nude drawing of a beautiful girl. A nearly 100-year-old woman (Gloria Stuart) reveals that she's the woman in the drawing, and the audience is then immersed in the events on board theship from her point of view. She was Rose (Kate Winslet), a lovely young woman engaged to one of the richest men on the ship, the cool and calculating Cal (Billy Zane). Unhappy with her forced engagement, Rose briefly considers launching herself overboard but is saved by the witty, handsome Jack (Leonardo DiCaprio), a third-class passenger who won his ticket in a poker game. As the two grow closer, Cal frames Jack for
stealing, and the ship hits an iceberg, throwing everyone into a catastrophic, life-and-death situation where relationships are tested and courage is rare.
COLOMBIANA
Luc Besson reprises his 1994 hit Léon, as the screenwriter of this fantastically ridiculous, toweringly humourless action-thriller directed by Olivier Megaton, whose surname may have caused him to be pigeonholed professionally and never invited to craft a tremulous work of social realism. Colombiana is set in the mean streets of Bogotà and many a US city. Zoe Saldana plays Cataleya, who as a little girl sees her drug-dealing parents murdered and instantly conceives the charming ambition to be a cold-blooded assassin. However, because she's supposed to be a goodie, she only kills bad people.
Naturally, her ambitio
n is to find the murderers; this she does by killing loads of random people (relax – only bad people), hoping that the resulting press coverage will come to the attention of her enemies, who will then come for her and she can smoke their asses. What a very laborious plan it sounds. Occasionally enjoyable in a silly way, but I have to say Besson's preoccupation with the little-girl-becomes-killer trope is looking a little unwholesome.
