Mark Radford's Posts - CrimeSpace2024-03-29T15:51:17ZMark Radfordhttps://crimespace.ning.com/profile/MarkRadford331https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/60997678?profile=RESIZE_48X48&width=48&height=48&crop=1%3A1https://crimespace.ning.com/profiles/blog/feed?user=2cpe6hvs40bwo&xn_auth=noLuc Besson Thrilling Againtag:crimespace.ning.com,2012-01-14:537324:BlogPost:3285562012-01-14T00:04:52.000ZMark Radfordhttps://crimespace.ning.com/profile/MarkRadford331
<p>I'm quite a fan of Luc Besson's movies especially the thrillers that he had done early in his career with 'Nikita' and 'Leon'. I felt that he had not surpassed them since then until now.<br></br><br></br>My attention was drawn to the movie 'Colombiana' as it had a similar plot line to my debut book <em>Early Memory</em> - a young girl's parents were murdered and she grew up to be an assassin out for revenge against their killers. I rented it out on DVD and thankfully that's where the similarity…</p>
<p>I'm quite a fan of Luc Besson's movies especially the thrillers that he had done early in his career with 'Nikita' and 'Leon'. I felt that he had not surpassed them since then until now.<br/><br/>My attention was drawn to the movie 'Colombiana' as it had a similar plot line to my debut book <em>Early Memory</em> - a young girl's parents were murdered and she grew up to be an assassin out for revenge against their killers. I rented it out on DVD and thankfully that's where the similarity ends. I was pleasantly surprised to see that Luc Besson is one of the Co-Writers for it and to me, he's back on form! Catch the film if you can.</p>