The same can be said about the life of KA-12 agent Natasha Alexandrovna Chenkova. Salt’s evolvement begins with death (clarifying and resolve hardening), much like the main character in Michael Brandt’s The Double and Frank Darabont’s The Shawshank Redemption.ĭeath has always dominated Salt’s life. Sure, she's no Jason Bourne but she is in a film that is only really interested in getting to the next twist before we have a chance to fathom how ridiculous the last one was.The explosive and entertaining set pieces come and go quickly, leaving amble time for the story to evolve and for CIA agent Evelyn Salt (Angelina Jolie) to be explored.
Jolie is at the centre of everything in the film and seems to revel in the outlandish action heroics required of her, with every far-fetched escape - there must be half a dozen at least - from the authorities managing to out-do the previous one.Īnd she carries it off neatly even when she has to be disguised as a man under a couple of kilos of latex which reminds not so much of Mission: Impossible - Tom Cruise rejected starring in this because he thought it was too close to his franchise - but one of those Eddie Murphy multiple identity comedies.Īs yet another superspy with a few personal demons, Jolie's believably bruising performance and her wiry energy save Salt from itself. Salt exists in a world where only the locations - Washington DC and New York with a few flashbacks to Mother Russia - are credible.Įverything else is designed to elicit: "Bloody hell, whatever next?"Īnd keeping you guessing about Jolie's character's next move is what this rollercoaster movie - and the star who plays her - do rather well. The recent arrest of a ring of Russian sleeper spies might have given its espionage plot, and its Cold War nostalgia, a boost in credibility.īut in a way those real-world headlines work against the mad conspiracy plot at the centre of this. In the film those points pretty much define the first act.įar-fetched as it is, Salt is still robustly entertaining throughout.
In that we see a blonde Angelina Jolie being chased down on suspicion of being a Russian spy and a brunette Jolie under arrest, kicking and tasering her way out of a police car. well you've pretty much given away the entire film.
If you comment on its implausibilities, its contrivances, the vast leaps it makes in both its logic and in its many stunts.
Verdict: Action star Jolie rescues spy film from fatal attack of improbability, just.Īssessing the merits of Salt presents a difficulty. Angelina Jolie stars as Evelyn Salt in Salt.
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