Salt, The Movie, and not the Mineral

I just saw Salt, not more than two hours ago.


It’s basically Angelina Jolie going back to a Lara Croft-y role. She just can’t seem to break away from it. It suits her anyway. It was really hard for me to watch her in Changeling without thinking that she will be kicking people’s butts (think Lara Croft, Fox, Jane Smith, even Tigress) just to get her kid back or without thinking she’ll just drop her clothes to make the detectives work harder (read: Grendel’s mom, Olympias and Julia Russell).





I read somewhere that the movie Salt was originally written with Tom Cruise in mind. However, Tom Cruise rejected the movie in favor of doing “Knight and Day”. ‘Why?’, you may ask? Because doing “Salt” would be like doing another Mission Impossible movie. As opposed to playing a character in “Knight and Day” (and if you didn’t get the sarcasm, look up what kind of character Cruise played in that movie). Pretty smart, right? (yes, another sarcastic remark).


Anyway, all’s well that ends well. Lara Croft, er, Angelina Jolie plays Evelyn Salt really well. Tom Cruise would’ve fit that role perfectly too. After all, they’re into the same types of movies.


And coming from watching “Inception” recently and having read the metaphorical meaning of the film, I couldn’t help but think of the idea being planted into the audience’s brains: “Russia creates great spies and might be able to infiltrate the US government to start a war”.
As you might have guessed, Evelyn Salt is a Russian spy. And like all other action movies, one person gets to kill a whole lot of people (I highly doubt this can really happen in real life, given all the high tech security and training people get in order to get to be where they were in the movie). The twist? Because Evelyn fell in love with her husband (who she was supposed to recruit into the KGB group) and that KGB killed her husband, she acted as a double agent for the US.


And like Inception, there was no defined ending. The ending of the movie “Salt” made you think or wonder what would happen next. This probably also leaves room for a possible sequel of the movie.


No surprise why Salt couldn’t beat Inception in the US. I wonder how it did or will do here.