This weeks movie offering was Salt, the Angelina Jolie Action Spy flick which although formulaic still leaves an unpleasant taste in the mouth, The story had nothing too extraordinary in it and yet as a story of rogue Russian agents trying to turn the cold war hot would have caused a stir in the 80’s or 90’s but with very few cinema goers remembering what it is like to live under the threat of Nuclear Holocaust the story loses a bit of its fear, but I guess it would have taken a bit more guts to have Jolie as a suspected Islamic fundamentalist.
The film tries to keep up the suspense with a Is She/isn’t she plot line which is about as transparent as they come and it would be an embarrassment for anyone to admit after the first 20 minutes if they haven’t got it all figured out. There are some reasonable fight scenes and enough explosions to keep most men happy. (I doubt there are many men who wouldn’t agree to watch Angelina Jolie for an hour anyway.) My wife didn’t enjoy the film at all but I have a sneaky suspicion that could be more to the fact that she is a massive Jennifer Anniston fan and therefore struggles to forgive Jolie for the breakdown of Anniston’s marriage to Brad Pitt.
The main co-star is Liev Schreiber who despite being great is as vast an array as X-Men Origins: Wolverine and Hamlet was unbelievable as a CIA agent. The film also co-stared Chiwetel Ejiofor who is better known to Sci-Fi enthusiasts as the Operative from Joss Whedon’s seminal Space Cowboy Movie Serenity (the movie based on the short lived series firefly) who was very good as the counter intelligence expert assigned to bring Salt in. This has been a reasonably bad year for movies with very few making a real impact and most of them being an uncomfortable watch, but I guess if we were going to look for a saviour we should have looked further than a film written by Brian Helgeland The man who brought us Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master and 21st Century Knight story A Knights Tale.
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