I like action movies. Give me James Bond, Jason Bourne, or Frank Martin (Transporter) and I’m happy. And because “Salt,” starring Angelina Jolie, is pure action, I’m content, but I’m not going to overvalue its quality. Evelyn Salt (Jolie) is one of the CIA’s most talented agents. But when a Russian defector, Orlov (Daniel Olbrychski), names her as a sleeper KGB agent, she finds her self hunted by Agent Peabody (Chiwetel Ejiofor), an Internal Affairs operative, and her partner Ted Winter (Live Schreiber). According to Orlov, Salt is going to assassinate the Russian president, who is in the United States attending the funeral of the U.S. Vice President. The film’s key question is, whose side is Salt on?
Director Phillip Noyce pushes the envelop of credibility, hoping that you’ll ignore holes in the plot and believe Jolie’s increasingly impossible stunts. Nonetheless, the action scenes are exciting and tension building although our heroine jumps from one moving truck to another to a third. Believable? And she just happens to know how to get to the Russian president with a few clicks of Internet research. Reportedly, Tom Cruise was supposed to make this movie and if he did, “Salt” would be another generic action flick. Having a female protagonist does add another dimension, but at 95 minutes, Noyce really doesn’t have much time to develop her character. Nonetheless, Jolie seems more than capable of proving herself a solid action star. And because this has a PG-13 rating, there’s a lot of violence, but not a lot of blood (except on Jolie). Despite its problems, “Salt” is an enjoyable popcorn movie. 7/26/10
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"Salt" with Angelina Jolie was origially written as a male role and probably for Tom Cruise. With this in mind this film could have been called Everett Salt instead of Evelyn Salt. Never-the-less the stunts in this flick would have been difficult for a man to accomplish much less a woman. The fact that AJ took on the role makes this film more attractive to me. Go see it, it's a lot of fun!
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