Review: Salt

Salt is an iteresting film that twists your loyalties and features a great action turn by Angelina Jolie and while the film doesn’t knock it out of the park it is a pretty good grounding for the film’s larger goal.

Evelyn Salt is a spy for the CIA who is winding down and about to settle into a pencil pushing job so she can be with her husband and get the risk out of her life.  Heading home for her anniversary, Salt, is called back in to interrogate a Russian defector who claims that Salt is a sleeper agent for the Russian government which means the Russian’s know who she and her husband are.  Salt is immediately worried about her husband and when her own agency tries to detain her she breaks out and goes on the run trying to hunt down her husband to secure his safety.

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Now Playing Review – Salt

If you have been watching the news lately then you have probably heard something about all of the Russian spies who are being discovered living in the US like normal people.  It might sound cool, but in all honesty it was a little underwhelming as far as I am concerned.  No reports of shootouts, no high speed chases through roads of high traffic, no jumping into bodies of water to escape pursuit… Why is this not going down like Hollywood made me believe it would!?  For those of you would like the Hollywood version of this story, then Salt just might be what you are looking for.

As a CIA agent Evelyn Salt has been through a lot of situations that most people will never have to deal with.  But today, the one thing she probably never saw coming walked right through the front door of her workplace.  While interrogating a Russian agent he tells a story of a plot against certain high ranking government officials that seems a little far fetched, but before she can cut him loose he gives the name of the agent who is supposed to carry out these assassinations.  And it just so happens to be her name.  Instead of sticking around to talk her way out of it, she makes a break for it, giving everyone reason to question who she really is. [Read more...]