Salt: Another Coup for Angelina Jolie

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If you want non-stop action, then make it as point to watch SALT, Angelina Jolie’s latest movie. She plays Evelyn Salt, a CIA operative married to one of the worlds’s top arachnologists. Two years after her rescue from a North Korean prison, she finds herself accused of being a sleeper Russian agent by Vassily Orlov, a Russian defective. She escapes the CIA and proceeds to find her husband. Eventually, she discovers that her husband is held prisoner by Orlov as a form of insurance. Orlov kills her husband in front of her and she goes on a killin spree — killing Orlov and all his men.

Salt goes on to follow Orlov’s plan — to kill the US President in the White House. She is assisted by sleeper agent who is a NATO representative to the US. In the end, she discovers that her former CIA boss, Ted Winter (Liev Schreiber), sis also a double agent like her and he sis the one tasked to kill the US President after deploying nuclear bombs to the Middle East. She kills Orlov and escapes FBI agents to hunt other KA-12 agents like her and kill them.

Now, some movie critics might tell you that it’s a bad movie but I beg to differ. It’s actually the kind of movie I like.  You’re not required to think too much but you will definitely feel something. I found some of the scenes heart-stopping. Plus,  action movies fit Angelina Jolie like a glove — it feels like the movie is written with her in mind, which it isn’t. I heard that Tom Cruise was the first choice for the starring role of SALT but he declined in favor of KNIGHT and DAY.

Angelina Jolie fans would definitely enjoy this movie. Go catch it in the nearest cinema. As her character in SALT says, there is no one like her!

Doesn'y she look gorgeous here?

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  • http://www.whatsinsidemyclutteredbrain.blogspot.com amber

    Hell yeah!!! definitely a movie to watch.

    Two thumbs up!!!

    Too bad for Tom Cruise whatever his reason was for declining SALT but Angelina is a good choice though.

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  • Honey

    Nics! Great review here. Seen this one over the weekend and Angelina never failed me. Definitely I had a great time watching this. She’s still the ass-kicking biyatch we’ve ever known lol. =)

    You write here na pala..I don’t know how I can follow you or something. You’re not on blogspot anymore? I’m there kasi and naisip ko na it’s much easier for me to get some updates on you using blogspot.

    But yeah good job Nics! <3 yah! Miss you ng madami =)

  • http://movieforest.com/salt/ Jesenia Deshon

    I would have given it a 6.5 if there was a way to do it but I rounded up. The action scenes were definitely the weak point because it isn’t a cartoon like Lara Croft. Angelina is simply too frail and unathletic to be Ms Jason Bourne. It was like watching adult males being tossed around by a 12 year old and she did it for the entire movie. They could have written around the physical scenes better. Aside from that it was a nice bit of cold war suspense and the strong cast did the best that they could. It wasn’t utterly predictable and it is not a copy of the Bourne Identity. The role was written for a male lead but they did a nice job in adapting it for a female. I hope it does well enough in the box office to support a sequel because it was a decent popcorn movie.

  • http://www.themadhatterchimneysweep.com Chimney sweep Lake Stevens

    Did u know Jolie’s profession prospects started out to boost after her efficiency as Cornelia Wallace in the 1997 biographical film George Wallace for which she won a Golden World Award and was nominated for an Emmy Award. Gary Sinise starred as Alabama Governor George Wallace.