LITTLE ROCK — Angelina Jolie’s newest star vehicle — Salt — is one exhilarating nutty ride, says editor Philip Martin, in Friday’s MovieStyle section. In Salt the ultra-chic Jolie stars as Evelyn Salt, a CIA agent who is suspected of being a Russian spy. In his review, Martin admits to liking the fast-paced spy thriller “maybe more than I should ’cause it’s the kind of movie I remember they used to make.”
You could get snarky and call it sub-Bourne, or drive a grand cru metaphor through its plot holes, but you gotta love a movie that so wholeheartedly embraces the inherent artifice of the medium. Nothing in Salt is the way it is on our planet.
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