{"id":5121,"date":"2010-08-29T22:27:54","date_gmt":"2010-08-30T02:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/?p=5121"},"modified":"2010-08-29T22:58:47","modified_gmt":"2010-08-30T02:58:47","slug":"salt-movie-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/2010\/08\/29\/salt-movie-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Salt&#8211;Movie Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/image\/stars\/25o5.gif\" alt=\"2.5 Stars\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0944835\/\"><em>Salt<\/em><\/a> is a bleak and violent spy thriller. It has a competent cast and a steady stream of special effects, but I didn&#8217;t enjoy it much.<\/p>\n<p>Evelyn Salt (Angelina Jolie) is a CIA super-spy who is accused by a Russian defector of being a Soviet mole. At the same time her husband is kidnapped. So she goes on the run with her former CIA colleagues in pursuit, trying to rescue her husband and foil a dastardly plot.<\/p>\n<p>Plausibility is not the movie&#8217;s strong suit. Most of the story revolves around an elaborate scheme, like something out of <em>Mission Impossible<\/em>, but much more elaborate and much more dependent on coincidences and uncontrollable events. Any hope of suspension of disbelief is further undermined by the movie&#8217;s jarring lack of concern for getting the details right. (What the heck is a &#8220;NATO uniform&#8221; supposed to look like, anyway? The movie shows us the answer, but <em>why<\/em>?)<\/p>\n<p>Worse from a story-telling standpoint is that none of the characters seems particularly sympathetic, not even the heroine. This is a big problem for me. If I cared about the characters I might be willing to overlook the other flaws in the story, but if I don&#8217;t care about the characters I have nothing to do but look for plot holes, which are to be found in abundance.<\/p>\n<p>As a final annoyance the ending is sort of inconclusive, as if they wanted to be sure to leave room for a sequel.<\/p>\n<p>The move supplies generous helpings of crashes and explosions. If these are what you are looking for, you may find it satisfactory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Salt is a bleak and violent spy thriller. It has a competent cast and a steady stream of special effects, but I didn&#8217;t enjoy it much. Evelyn Salt (Angelina Jolie)&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/2010\/08\/29\/salt-movie-review\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[382],"class_list":["post-5121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","tag-salt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5121"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5131,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5121\/revisions\/5131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}