SALT review:- Yes we love those Bond style movies, Enemy of the State, Shooter. SALT starring Angelina Jolie is one such suspense based action movie. The story is about CIA and Russian Intelligence KGB. Damn those Russian agents are always good. Two weeks after the U.S. deported 10 Russian sleeper agents, the largest ring since the Cold War, the new spy movie ‘Salt’ has been premiered in theaters across America.
The SALT movie shows Angelina as suspected spy who is working for Russian Government. Very much similar to the Russian spies who revealed their identities and were arrested by the FBI and lately exchanged with the American Citizens held hostage by Russians.
Angelina Jolie is named Evelyn Salt, who is a married CIA agent from Washington D.C. The role of her husband is Mike Krause is played by August Diehl. The detained Russian Agent tells the CIA that SALT, is working for the KGB. Angelina goes on the run to clear the alligations against her. SALT runs to New York city to attend the funeral of the American Vice President where the President is said to be assasinated. Members of the Russian government are in attendance, as President Matveyev (portrayed by Olek Krupa) is speaking in memorial of his “closest friend in the west.” SALT works her own secret agenda as she tries to prove she’s not related to the Russian government.
SALT potrays more action side of Angelina Jolie reducing her need to prove her sex appeal to the audience which were seen in earlier movies from her. The suspence constantly leaves the audience in quandary whether or not she really is a Russian spy, or if her loyalty is with the American government, even at the end of the movie. Continuously lying to everyone around her, Jolie proves Salt can successfully manipulate everyone and anyone into believing what she wants them to.
Not only did director Phillip Noyce make the right decision in casting Jolie as Salt, the movie’s studios, Relativity Media and Columbia Pictures, also proved to make a smart choice by hiring screenwriters Kurt Wimmer and Brian Helgeland. Instead of focusing on the current Iraq war, which many audience members aren’t interested in seeing, as seen with the March bomb ‘Green Zone,’ Salt was rightfully focused on Russia instead.
Since America has had wars with Russia in the past, and many movie-goers don’t want a social commentary on the wars in the Middle East, Wimmer and Helgeland were able to provide an adequate back story to ‘Salt.’ They were able to provide Jolie with enough of a back-story for Salt to make her portrayal interesting and intriguing. While Relativity Media and Columbia Pictures may have been able to rake in a large gross revenue if they just filled the script with special effects, especially with all the hype leading up to the movie’s release, they chose the right path to not just make another big-budget summer action film.
SALT is rated PG13 but the action is much violent for kids that age. Jolie’s fans will definitely be interested in seeing the movie. Action is definitely her strongest genre, and ‘Salt’ proves it. Reportedly performing almost all of her own stunts in the movie, Jolie proves that she is at the top of her game, and should continue with similarly-themed movies in the future.