I was able to see an early screening of Salt yesterday, thanks to some new friends. The movie star’s Angelina Jolie and Liev Schreiber. The trailers portrayed the movie as having lots of action and involving some renewed Russia USA cold war type scenario. But it was much more than that. Check out past the jump for the full review.
I feel the best way to describe this movie is the female version of Taken. Now if you’ve seen ‘Taken’ and this movie you might be saying, what are you talking about? But let me explain. When I think of ‘Taken’ and see it again every so often its no stop action. The movie is about 90 minutes but feels much shorter than that and leaves you wanting more. The same goes for ‘Salt’. When the movie ended I felt like there should be at least another 45 minutes. The plot isn’t close at all to ‘Taken’, but it’s really just that same non-stop action thriller movie.
I don’t want to spoil the movie for anyone so there will be some key detail’s missing. Angelina Jolie and Live Schreiber are CIA agents. Chiwetel Ejiofor is from the counter intelligence, but not the CIA, a difference secret branch of the government. Essentially as seen in the trailer Angelina Jolie is told she is a Russian spy while interrogating another Russian. This information causes Ejiofor’s character to want to lock Jolie up and interrogate her about the news. Schreiber’s character, who is friends with Jolie, try’s to talk Ejiofor out of it. Jolie freaked out because she knows that they want to lock her up and interrogate her escapes. This causes Schreiber to get on board with Ejiofor and join the search to bring Jolie in for questioning. From there the entire movie is essentially a chase to capture Jolie.
There’s a lot more plot to the movie than that. I’d say in that aspect it’s similar to The Fugitive. The overall plot is chasing Jolie, but there are many smaller plot lines woven in with lots of twists and turns. Some expected others not so much. It ends up being a very entertaining movie, whether you like Angelina Jolie or not as an actress.
I think the ending is perfect for a sequel and would want one. I almost feel that if done right this could become a line of movies similar to the way the The Bourne Identity, or Mission Impossible movies spawned sequels. This could be the first of a series of movies like that, except for the first time it would center on a female super agent rather than a male one.
Let me know what you think in the comments.
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