Salt
Published February 16, 2011
Film info
- Title Salt
- Director Phillip Noyce
- Year 2010
- Run time 1hr 32m
- Genres Action, Thriller, Mystery
- Tagline Who is Salt?
Evelyn Salt, a trusted and loyal CIA operative, goes on the run when a Russian defector convinces her superiors that she’s a double agent sent to assassinate the President of United States. As the intense manhunt heats up, Salt uses all her skills as a covert operative to elude capture and uncovers a secret so powerful it could change the course of world history. Angelina Jolie stars in this action-packed thriller that will keep you guessing until the end.
Live Blog
| Time | Comment |
|---|---|
| 0:36 | North Korea, two years ago. I’m not noting all of these again. Last time it took me all the way round Europe. |
| 1:41 | Have seen two instances of water torture in as many films. Hollywood must have just realised it exists. |
| 2:23 | There’s an exchange scene just like this in one of the James Bond’s. |
| 4:54 | Yeah, you shouldn’t really keep your spiders on the dining room table. It’s not polite. |
| 6:14 | Liev is the king of talking without moving his lips. |
| 8:14 | She doesn’t look right as a blonde. |
| 11:04 | Ohh, it’s that Shutter Island music again. |
| 17:20 | Gosh, it is tense. |
| 19:10 | If she runs away, they’ll think she is guilty. Maybe she is. |
| 19:34 | Can they really match your face to any and every image… like… ever? Be careful what you upload to Flickr! |
| 22:00 | I call an Ikea table. Ours has legs like that too. |
| 23:48 | I don’t even know what she did but I like it. This is so Bourne. |
| 26:21 | I have a lot of questions already but the main one right now is how she paid for the taxi. |
| 27:38 | Hehe, dog on a polished floor. |
| 31:16 | For someone who takes part in a lot of action films, Angelina doesn’t run too well. Not that I can talk. |
| 35:23 | She’s pretty good at jumping across traffic though. |
| 42:40 | Woohoo, dying her hair. |
| 50:00 | You’ve got to really hate someone to wreck a beautiful old church like that. |
| 51:01 | She has massive hands. And bony fingers. |
| 54:28 | Proper whiplash. |
| 55:19 | She still has the spider poison though. I’m on spider poison watch. |
| 1:00:18 | Why are they pointing guns at her? Everywhere she goes there’s a gun in her face. |
| 1:05:59 | I’m gonna say she won’t kill the President, although at this point it is hard to say. |
| 1:12:56 | What are the different DEFCONs? Need to do some research. |
| 1:16:36 | I actually gasped out loud. |
| 1:19:54 | Spider poison! |
| 1:23:19 | It must be a Windows machine for the loading bar to pause at 99% complete. |
| 1:32:50 | Falling out of a chopper at that height has to hurt! |
Conclusions
Somehow, we both knew this was going to be a good film without really having any knowledge of it, which is surprising because Angelina Jolie can be spectacularly hit and miss. Mr C wouldn’t even let us watch the trailer for it in case it spoiled anything, and Mr C is obsessed with watching trailers. So, we really didn’t know what we were letting ourselves in for.
I really liked this. It was a bit too Bourne in the end, which is why I’ve knocked a point off, but there wasn’t anything to grumble about it really. The story was complex enough that midway through Mr C was contemplating watching it twice, but then it all started to unravel and everything became clear. Pretty much. I was impressed with Angelina, although it’s fair to say there were more stunts than any serious acting going on. I approve.
Rating: 4/5
Rating: 4 / 5