REVIEW: Salt (2)

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The tagline of this Phillip Noyce film is “Who is Salt?” It does not really matter, if she is played by Angelina Jolie in glamorous wigs and a pout that enters the frame a few seconds before she does. Salt is one of those non-stop action films, which encourage the mind to shut down. If it doesn’t make sense, it’s because it is not supposed to.

After trying out villains from various countries, and affiliated to various causes, Hollywood returns to his former Cold War enemy—Russia—without which half of the big Hollywood thrillers would not have come into existence. The film says that there are hidden Russian agents all over in sensitive US posts. They were all trained as kids in Russia and then unleashed upon America. One of them, Evelyn Salt, planted into the CIA, makes the mistake of falling in love. Her husband is kidnapped to force her to go ahead with plans to first kill the Russian President, and then some more perilous missions.

She runs about at great speed (often barefoot) changes her appearance, breaks in wherever she pleases, and gives the pursuing US agents a crisis to remember. Of course, she succeeds in her mission, and the film ends at a point where there is room for one or more sequels. Salt will become a popular franchise, no doubt about it, and the waxen-faced Barbie slim Jolie a female Bond—indestructible. Last seen she is running through a forest—barefoot—and we’d like to see where she goes. Who is Salt? Who cares?

Comments

[Jackie Vance]

I think if you were her, then you might care. Dont you think....should I even imply that people do think anymore.