Salt Movie Review
Salt Movie
When CIA officer Evelyn Salt (Jolie) is accused of being a spy by a Russian defector, she goes on the run, putting all of her experience and skills to use to elude capture, learn the truth of her identity, and hopefully clear her name.
Salt Movie Reviews..
Scott
In the same way that Nazi Germany was a boon for the war movie genre, what would writers of espionage films do without good old communist Russia? While it might seem like that particular horse has been beat to death, the recent real-life news of Russian spies here in the USA shows that there might just be some life left in it after all. The makers of Salt certainly thought so in this action-packed, if over-the-top, thriller starring Angelina Jolie in full-on kick-ass mode. More..
By Mark Ramsey
In Salt, we get to see Angelina kick an international bevy of ass. I feel like I’ve seen this before – in every Angelina Jolie movie except for the ones nobody sees, in fact. More..
Jolie Delivers Again in Action Flicks as CIA Agent-Turned-Manchurian Assassin
Let’s face it, from Tomb Raider (2001) to Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005) to Wanted (2008), Angelina Jolie has always delivered in her high-octane action adventures, and Salt is no exception. This espionage thriller about a Russian mole strategically planted in the U.S. couldn’t be more timely, given the recent arrest of Anna Chapman, the flamboyant NYC realtor deported after confessing to being a Soviet spy. More..
Spy Vs. Spy
In the spy thriller “Salt,” Angelina Jolie gets quite a workout. She kicks, karate-chops, and pistol-whips about thirty men. She kills many others with such weapons as a machine gun, a broken bottle, and handcuff chains, which she uses to strangle a guy. She jumps from an overpass onto a moving truck and from there onto another; she rappels down an elevator shaft without a rope; and she blows a hole in the floor of St. Bartholomew’s Church, on Park Avenue, so that the man speaking in the pulpit, the President of Russia More
The ‘Bourne’ Substitute: ‘Salt’ an Unappetizing Mess
Nearly two decades after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Phillip Noyce (Patriot Games) and screenwriter Kurt Wimmer (Law Abiding Citizen) are still fighting the Cold War in Salt, unearthing a nest of Commie conspirators trying to trigger a nuclear showdown. More..
