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Two Movies in Two Days! INCEPTION and then SALT. They may have been seen only one day apart BUT they might as well be worlds apart.

Evelyn Salt, is she a Russian spy? Or a double agent? Or just a CIA agent or a Russian sleeper agent like the ones booted out of Montclair, NJ!  It’s all about her cool and her unending stare. She is the iciest of the ice maidens, I mean killers.  Her character seemed to me to be a combination of James Bond, Jason Bourne, Wonder Woman and Kung Fu.  She is an exquisitely trained fighting and killing machine.  You know we have been seeing computer digitization and computer generated special effects for so long that the fact that any character can do anything is just not special anymore.  We’ve been overexposed to feats of great skill and strength performed of course, by stunt men and the computer.  Okay, putting the obvious aside, one cannot discount the great shape that Angelina Jolie is in.  She electrifies the screen and dominates it completely.  As I said, it’s all about the cool un-blinking stare!

I have no idea how long the movie was because it was so chock full of action and I mean ACTION!  I’m sure you’ve seen the trailers, read some of the reviews, Evelyn Salt IS a super woman who can leap from the top of a moving truck onto yet another moving truck, she can rappell down an elevator shaft, kill mercilessly, find her way through the bowels of any building she is in and has the most uncanny ability to think on her feet and land on them too.

Evelyn Salt