After reading a couple of completely misleading reviews on IMDB.com, I was not expecting too much from this film. Some ass had said "nothing much happens".
Now, I'm not a fan of Angelina Jolie's bloated lip look, and don't equate her with stunts of any kind - let alone the ones in this movie - but the action was non-stop, in a Bourne-ish kind of way.
Plenty of twists and turns to keep you guessing, lots of pouting from Mrs. Pitt.
As in other films of this type (and perhaps a necessary evil, to keep the adrenaline flowing), some of the action defies the bounds of logic and human endurance. Jolie leaps from fast-moving truck roof to fast-moving truck roof; Jolie jumps down elevator shaft 2 floors at a time, and doesn't even get dirt on her white shirt; Jolie tackles 5 CIA agents - each individually capable of holding down a job, one assumes - and comes out on top; you get the picture.
There's an element of suspended reality in every one of these Bourne / Mission Impossible type movies, so maybe Salt didn't go too far. Interestingly, the Salty script was written for Tom Cruise. When he turned it down, it was re-written for a female lead and Jolie stepped up.
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