Salt

[MacGuffin]

Trailer here.

Release Date: July 23rd, 2010 (wide)

Starring: Angelina Jolie, Liev Schreiber, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Andre Braugher 

Directed by: Phillip Noyce 

Premise: Before becoming a CIA officer, Evelyn Salt swore an oath to duty, honor, and country. She will prove loyal to these when a defector accuses her of being a Russian sleeper spy. Salt goes on the run, using all her skills and years of experience as a covert operative to elude capture, protect her husband, and stay one step ahead of her colleagues at the CIA.

[pete]

fuck this movie.

[OrHowILearnedTo]

haha American Dad did an episode just like this

[Stefen]

Does Angelina Jolie EVER make a good movie? She needs to take a cue from her boytoy and start working with interesting filmmakers. She's like an older ScarJo. Her talent is suspect, but she looks and acts mysterious so people eat it up.

Sick of her.

[picolas]

you didn't see changeling or mighty wind, right? she's absolutely talented, but she seems to enjoy doing junk as much if not more than legitimately good things. i hate when great actors have bad taste.. such a waste.

[©brad]

Yeah it's the kind of flick I'll probably drink myself to sleep to on a flight to Atlanta in a couple years.

[ono]

you didn't see changeling or mighty wind, right?

Jolie in A Mighty Wind might be an interesting twist (I can see her singing "A Kiss at the End of the Rainbow" as half of Mitch and Mickey).  A Mighty Heart, maybe?

[Stefen]

nope. never seen them. never even heard of mighty wind and everything i heard about changeling had me steer clear.

[picolas]

changeling was shitily marketed but it's actually a really good film. and yes. heart.

[Reinhold]

oh, man. they're cutting this where I work. I've only seen them putting in background plates and crap like that. i hope nobody asks me if I've seen this trailer.

fuck this movie.

[MacGuffin]

New Trailer here.

[mogwai]

Sequel "Pepper" coming at ya summer 2011.

[polkablues]

I had two hours to kill in the middle of the day today, and I had the choice between this and "Predators", so I flipped a coin in my head and walked into this one, based mostly on Phillip Noyce having more cache in my mind that Nimrod Antal.  Short review: it was fun, it was dumb, I'm happy I saw it but I don't need to see it again.  Kurt Wimmer is one of the best bad writers working today, and this is probably the best of all his bad scripts.  Things happen, and even though they aren't the things that would make sense to happen at that moment, they're kind of cool things, so you just sort of shrug and let it slide.  It's sort of the version of a spy thriller.  Angelina Jolie is a legit movie star.  Chiwetel Ejiofor was great, as always, in the same role he always plays.  Poor Andre Braugher was around for five minutes and had maybe two lines.  Liev Schreiber was also involved.  A solid C+, with half a letter grade of extra credit for Angelina Jolie's lips.  If the Hays code was still in effect, movies would be banned for showing that mouth.

[Alexandro]

Yeah I haven't seen this but Noyce can cut them pretty badass so I'm definitely interested. Jolie is a very good actress when she wants to, and yes, I was going to mention A Mighty Heart and Changeling as two very real examples of just how great she can be.

[pete]

how's about no more fight scenes where the actress steps off of a wall to punch a guy midair?  it's the dumbest move ever and nobody in the history of watching movies has ever been impressed.