Another big summer action movie opened last weekend, and it has officially become the screenbum’s second favorite movie of the season. Angelina Jolie has come back big time.
There aren’t many women in Hollywood that could pull off a role like this, but Angelina is awesome. The role of Salt was originally going to go to Tom Cruise, but Cruise decided to drop out and do the recent bomb Knight and Day. This would have been a totally different movie if Cruise decided to stick with it, but boy, I am glad that he didn’t. The role was rewritten for a woman, and Angelina stepped in.
A Russian spy enters the CIA office to make a confession, and states that Jolie’s character Evelyn Salt is a Russian spy as well. From there Salt goes on a Jason Bourne type escapade to clear her name and save her husband. It is definitely a roller coaster ride of unbelievable action and stunts, but Angelina sells it, and sells it hard. She even did most of her own stunts throughout the movie. The script flows well, and the director does a great job of keeping the film moving so that when the surprise ending comes to fruition it is a revelation that makes you say, “I knew it all along”, but you know you didn’t.
Liev Schrieber is solid as always, as Salt’s CIA confidant that is trying to bring her back in to help her in her quest for the truth, and Chiwetel Ejiofor a counter intelligence agent that has no interest in finding out the truth. His only focus is her capture, but soon realizes that there is a lot more to the situation then anyone originally realized.
Considering all the crap that Hollywood has put out this summer it nice to finally see another movie other then Inception that lives up to it’s hype.
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