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Review: SALT (2010)
Starring: Angelina Jolie, Liev Schreiber and Chiwetel Ejiofor
Writers: Kurt Wimmer.
Director: Phillip Noyce
Price: £19.99 (Amazon price: £9.99)
Released: December 13th 2010
Jean-Luc Godard famously said that “All you need to make a movie is a gun and a girl”. Of course, he meant a guy carrying a gun and a girl for him to be with, but times have moved on and thankfully, these days it’s frequently the girls/women who have the guns – and maybe a guy to be with as well.
Now SALT sees CIA agent Angelina Jolie – one of the movies’ most proficient women/girls with guns – accused of being a Russian sleeper agent and having to go on the run (with a gun). So you might suspect it’s nothing more than that formula. However, while you might have low expectations from the trailer and SALT does frequently fall off the narrow line between silly and good into silly on many occasions, it is a lot more than just that formula – in essence, it’s The Bourne Identity but on US soil and with a female lead. That can’t be bad, can it?
Review after the trailer and the jump.