Real Teen Award
- Worst Character/Actress 2010- Angelina Jolie
- Worst Character/Actress 2010- Angelina Jolie
The Gist
Evelyn Salt is a CIA agent in Washingotn D.C. … or is she? This movie follows Evelyn Salt, a CIA agent who is accused of being a Russian sleeper spy. She is also accused of being the spy that will assassinate the Russian and American president and start the greatest war in order to make America fall to pieces and Russia rise to be the dominate country. While trying to make sure her husband is safe, prove herself innocent, and run from the CIA who is following her, she is launched into a series of events that reveal her true identity. Thorughout the movie you get flashbacks to her childhood in the Soviet Union and her older life in America. As the plot unravels you find out whether Evelyn Salt is a Russian spy or a CIA agent. Which is it?
What We Think
Reviewed by ShoreWhisperer
Run Time: 100 Minutes
Rating: PG-13
Watching the movie trailers on TV it looked like this movie was going to be a new unique spy movie. I was wrong. True, we haven’t had a lot of action spy movies come out lately that were worth seeing. So when you put out a girl heroine instead of a boy, and you make that heroine be played by the most loved action actress of all time, obviously you are going to pull in a lot of money. This movie made me extremly confused. There wasn’t alot of detail at the beginning so when you got thrown into the plot head first with no information it was a little like watching Lost from the middle of an episode and then watching a random episode from another season. I was lost. Angelina Jolie of course played her usual self. It wasn’t anything special, not award winning or anything. I felt like I was watching the same thing over and over again. Every scene was either Salt escaping and making a scene or she was killing somebody, with explosions in the background.And of course as always, Angelina can not die. I don’t know if you’ve noticed but every movie she is in even if her brain gets blown out of her head she is still living. She gets shot in the back… oh she has a bullet proof vest on! She jumps off of a ten story building, no big deal she has cat like reflexes.Oh and just to let you know, even though she can lose tons of blood she gains it back unnaturally fast because she is Angelina Jolie and she is amazing like that. I thought that the whole movie was a little over the top. The only thing that I will give props to is the producers for making this a regular hour and a half movie and still getting us so acquainted with the character. The snippets of her past really let you know what she was like so you knew her better than most characters in normal movies. That was the only thing that I liked about this movie. The husband was cute but you didn’t know him enough to get attached to him. Finally,i felt like I was in the movie theater.The whole reason people go to see movies is to escape from the regular world. I like it when I slip into the movie and it keeps me entertained. During this movie I was watching the other people in the theater, and then eventually flattening out my candy bag, till it was perfectly straight… that’s how bored I was. The movie was definatly action packed, there was explosions and machine guns to the extreme, and if that’s your thing well I guess that you would like it, but it seemed a little extravagant to me.
Real Teen Rating~ C+ : Just Average
Reviewed Dream Catcher
Reviewed Dream Catcher
When I first saw the trailer for this movie I desperately wanted to see it. It looked like a great action movie with some butt-kicking moves from Angelina Jolie. My sister went to see it before me, and told me it was awesome. So I was excited. Sadly, I was disappointed. In short, all it was was a bunch of people getting beat up by Angelina Jolie. Don’t get me wrong, that was very entertaining. Well…at first. But after the first few fight scenes I got tired of watching people get killed. Angelina Jolie was just pure terrible. When watching her I was watching the definition of bad acting. GAH. I hadn’t heard of any of the other actors from the movie before I saw it, and they weren’t anything amazing either. They weregood, but not very memorable. Now the fight scenes were pretty intense, but it all got to be a little over the top. Like ShoreWhisperer said, only Angelina Jolie can kill Angelina Jolie, because apparently she was invincible. No matter the numbers of people against her. No matter the fire-power. No matter how strong or trained the other person was. She could not be killed. Which sometimes was a little ridiculous. The plot was also lacking. I could guess what was going to happen before it would. So not only was there hardly any plot, but the little bit of plot that there was extremely predictable. I may have been able to deal with that, but the worse part was that I was got bored while I was watching it. I would glance around the theater and sigh every so often. Then I’d find my mind wandering. That’s not a good movie. But, thankfully the whole movie wasn’t like that. I was entertained for some of the movie. One thing that I liked was the flashbacks that had her and her husband. I kind of wish there had been more of them in the movie. There were only a few, and I think the movie would have been a lot better (less mindless exploding) with some more scenes like that. Maybe it would have given some more meaning to an otherwise meaningless movie. Now to the most important part of my review. Позвольте мне присоединиться к вам . Do you know what that means? Yeah, I didn’t either. It means “let me join you” in Russian. But they said it so much during the movie I learned the words! I’m kidding, I looked it up on bing translator but they seriously did say it a lot in the movie. I can’t think of anything else to say. If I remember it at all, I’ll remember it as a BAD movie. It was a definite let-down.
Real Teen Rating~ D- : I wouldn’t bother at all.
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