Movie review – Salt (2010)
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It could be worse; this movie could star Tom Cruise. He was supposed to portray Edwin A. Salt, a CIA agent accused of being a Russian spy on the screen this summer. Rumor has it Cruise pulled out because the role was too similar to his Ethan Hunt character in Mission Impossible and that he demanded too much money for Salt.
Instead, we get to see the same old non-stop action formula that this genre of film depends upon, but with a female character. Based on Phillip Noyce's thriller, Salt stars Angelina Jolie. She's the hero of the movie that rests entirely on her shoulders.
In the film, Evelyn Salt (Angelina Jolie) is a CIA agent who interrogates a Russian defector named Orlov (Daniel Olbrychski). The man tells her about the Russian government's plans of "Day X" that could mean the end of U.S. and Russian relations.
Salt undertakes the task she was trained for since childhood. In flashbacks, we see the early days of Salt in the U.S.S.R., where the KGB brainwashed her and others with ideology. Young Salt has a goal: to go to the U.S. and work for the CIA.
That's some of the back-story that you will need to know for this movie to keep making sense. Unfortunately, there is a lot more where that came from. And it doesn't really matter what information you remember as the story twists and turns (and careens out of control) over the 90 minutes it takes there are so many layers of story development that it gets harder and harder to care about any of the characters.
But wherever this movie is going, Angelina Jolie takes us there with as much violence and glamor as possible, proving that it is possible to kick butt while maintaining supermodel looks. She does all her own stunts, and even in skirts and pants, in heels and bare feet, as a blonde and a brunette. Then there are those lips. You know, the lips that sort of scream at you the whole time: "You are not watching an actual character at all This is Angelina Jolie!" With her growing list of action figure portrayals, Jolie is almost the entire female action genre all by herself.
Still, there is some degree of fun in watching an over-the-top ridiculous modern day James Bond or Matthew Bourne-like movie. At least Angelina Jolie isn't just another Bond girl; she is Bond herself.
On the other hand, how lame is it to see that the evil force in Salt is Russia? As if we haven't already seen that antagonism exhausted during the length of the Cold War. I'm almost scared to think of the number of ignorant moviegoers that might actually believe the theory put forth in this story that the Lee Harvey Oswald that returned from the U.S.S.R. in 1962 was actually a Soviet lookalike.
In fact, the entire treatment of the White House, the President, and the U.S. government structure in this film seemed dated and incredibly bland. Is Hollywood really that out of touch with what's going on in the world of the C.I.A. that the best they can come up with is something that feels like it comes from a 1980's TV movie of the week?
Salt is one miraculous rescue after another and in the end, of course, she saves the world from nuclear armageddon. And when the movie ended and I sat there letting my eyes stop rolling, I pondered the sequel that is sure to come. With those lips in 3-D, no doubt.
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