Saturday, January 29, 2011

Salt (2010)

I have to admit that when I first started watching this that I was a little confused as to what Angelina Jolie (Gia) was doing through out the film. When you watch the trailer to this film, you think Jolie's character Evelyn Salt has been framed and she is trying to clear her name. That's what it seems like until she actually starts doing what a Russian had said she was going to do, kill the Russian president. Evelyn Salt is a well trained Russian spy that she is told to infiltrate our American system and act as one of us until the day comes that they need to act.You start to discover that a lot of people aren't who they say they are and the movie truly makes you wonder if this is possible. Could a Russian spy really infiltrate the CIA or the FBI. It certainly makes you wonder and I think that is what makes this movie good besides the fact that Jolie really kicks some ass in this movie. Her mission is to kill the Russian President and she has to steal America's nuclear weapons. Can she do it? Some of the stunts in this film are out of control and some I don't think are believable, but it's an action movie and there supposed to be fun. The movie also stars Liev Schreiber (Defiance), Chiwetel Ejiofor (2012), and August Diehl (Inglorious Basterds). I give this movie a B-

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