Salt (Deluxe Unrated Edition) [Blu-ray] (2010)
Customer Reviews:
This is a really well done action flick worth viewing. Here's what's good with it:
1. It's full of non-stop action that will keep you on the edge of your seat. The stunts and fight scenes are really exciting.
2. The story has twisty turns and it keeps you thinking. There's no boredom here, and I felt the plot was close enough to being plausible to keep you interested. Even if the exact program of placing trained children into America isn't complete realism, we all know that there are spies living as Americans in this country. Just watch the news. It's a current and relevant theme.
3. The acting is excellent, and the characters, especially Angelina Jolie, show depth. You can't help caring about what happens to Salt.
While I agree with another reviewer who said that Salt's husband isn't shown a lot, I felt he was shown enough to reveal that Salt really loved him. That was what the audience needed to know in order to understand her motives, and to care about whether he lived or died.
I'd definitely recommend seeing this movie, and it's one I'd own as well.
1. It's full of non-stop action that will keep you on the edge of your seat. The stunts and fight scenes are really exciting.
2. The story has twisty turns and it keeps you thinking. There's no boredom here, and I felt the plot was close enough to being plausible to keep you interested. Even if the exact program of placing trained children into America isn't complete realism, we all know that there are spies living as Americans in this country. Just watch the news. It's a current and relevant theme.
3. The acting is excellent, and the characters, especially Angelina Jolie, show depth. You can't help caring about what happens to Salt.
While I agree with another reviewer who said that Salt's husband isn't shown a lot, I felt he was shown enough to reveal that Salt really loved him. That was what the audience needed to know in order to understand her motives, and to care about whether he lived or died.
I'd definitely recommend seeing this movie, and it's one I'd own as well.
+++++
Now this is what I'm talking about. Phillip Noyce's "Salt" is my type of summer movie. First and foremost "Salt" is an action film and it succeeds with flying colors in that regard. But what I really admired about this picture is that it took place in reality. The action was grounded in physics and therefore made it messy, mean and hard hitting. Then we have bon-a-fied movie superstar Angelina Jolie in her best action performance. Where "Salt" also succeeds stupendously is with Evelyn Salt's characterization, which is complex, dualistic, fascinating and ultimately enigmatic. Jolie thrives in this role which plays to literally every one of her strengths as an actress. You root for her and sympathize with her even though it's never clear what side Evelyn truly falls into. It's in this intense dynamic between plot, character and action that leaves "Salt" head and shoulders over films like "Eclipse", "Clash of the Titans", "Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time" and yes, even "Inception". But also on a side note it's just plain refreshing to see a film that has Russians trying to take down America, crisp and clean action cinematography and a true movie star like Jolie leading things along. This is classic summer filmmaking at it's finest.
++++
This was a great movie! Almost non-stop action--car chases, run from the CIA, lots of shooting and fighting, and a few twists and turns.
Evelyn Salt is a CIA intelligence officer. She is married to a German National who has easy access to move freely, in and out of Korea. She is about to go home to celebrate her wedding anniversary when a Russian defector shows up at the office, telling a story. He says he is dying of cancer and has nothing to lose. He explains that many years ago, the Russians developed a plot to ruin America, the "KA" program ("kill America", I guess). They trained many, many children and then substituted them into American life as "sleepers", to participate in a well-orchestrated plot at a much later time. When the time is right, these children would be activated. The one assigned to kill the Russian president was Evelyn Salt!
As Evelyn is interrogating the defector, the other agents are running a body scan on him which indicates he is telling the truth. Uh oh. They begin to look at Evelyn a little differently. Meanwhile, she is concerned about her husband's safety and takes off to find him. This begins Evelyn's chase and a ton of action.
Is "our" Evelyn Salt really Agent Chenkov? Or is someone setting her up? Watch and see. I think you will really enjoy this movie if you like action.
BTW--Yes, there is a lot of BS in the chase scenes, where Evelyn would likely have been killed in real life many times over, BUT, that's what makes a movie fun! They get up and keep on going--they are the ONE person in the whole world who could survive or could achieve something. Get real--that's what you go to see--the so-called impossible stuff! Angelina does a great job in this high-action flick!
Evelyn Salt is a CIA intelligence officer. She is married to a German National who has easy access to move freely, in and out of Korea. She is about to go home to celebrate her wedding anniversary when a Russian defector shows up at the office, telling a story. He says he is dying of cancer and has nothing to lose. He explains that many years ago, the Russians developed a plot to ruin America, the "KA" program ("kill America", I guess). They trained many, many children and then substituted them into American life as "sleepers", to participate in a well-orchestrated plot at a much later time. When the time is right, these children would be activated. The one assigned to kill the Russian president was Evelyn Salt!
As Evelyn is interrogating the defector, the other agents are running a body scan on him which indicates he is telling the truth. Uh oh. They begin to look at Evelyn a little differently. Meanwhile, she is concerned about her husband's safety and takes off to find him. This begins Evelyn's chase and a ton of action.
Is "our" Evelyn Salt really Agent Chenkov? Or is someone setting her up? Watch and see. I think you will really enjoy this movie if you like action.
BTW--Yes, there is a lot of BS in the chase scenes, where Evelyn would likely have been killed in real life many times over, BUT, that's what makes a movie fun! They get up and keep on going--they are the ONE person in the whole world who could survive or could achieve something. Get real--that's what you go to see--the so-called impossible stuff! Angelina does a great job in this high-action flick!
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