Salt : Russian spies are back in fashion!!!!!!!!

[alexandral]

The film is not made to be taken seriously, you can not do this even if you try really really hard.
The film is full of:

- Bad Russians and all of them are spies

- Russians who killed president Kennedy

- Good Russians and all of them are pro USA

- Bad Russian accents. You had to laugh when even Daniel Olbrychski who spoke perfectly good Russian had a very BAD Russian accent when he spoke English (and by BAD I don’t mean thick, I mean – I haven’t heard any of Russian people I have met speak like this in real life)

- Russians drinking vodka after killing a man with automatic guns

- Russians chess champions

The film had no Russian cliché unturned. I have seriously tried to think this was some kind of parody/spoof thing but I don’t think it was.

What the film didn’t have , however:

- Any coherency of the plot. Everyone assumes Angelina is a Russian spy? Why? I tried really hard to understand but the only explanation for me was that she has blond hair , braided in a a plat (this is a Russian way to wear your hair, right) ?

Anyways, I had a good laugh with Mr.Alexander , so the film was good for something?

Comments

[alexandral.livejournal.com]

You see, I have this literal thinking I can't do anything with it: the skinny Angelina we see in "Salt" does not look like a woman who can do any fighting, let alone run more than 10 min at a time. I really like when "strong" women are allowed to look like they are strong (like having muscles, for one thing) and this was not the case.

I liked her more in "Wanted" where there more of shooting and less of kicking.

[anenko.livejournal.com]

Angelina Jolie didn't bother me too much; I've seen even scrawnier women in the kick ass roles. It helped that she wasn't half-naked for most of the movie, which made her look bulkier (ha! "bulky" in the Hollywood sense, at least.)

I do agree with you, though. I wish the actresses they have taking down men two times their sizes didn't look like they're ready to snap in a stiff breeze.

[alexandral.livejournal.com]

The skinny issue is my bee-in-the bonnet in general. I love new TV show "Haven" because - gosh, it is so rare to see a normal woman!

But I confess - Angelina was good when she did that scene with the chain (but at the same time - why did they have a chain on handcuffs? why?)