{"id":4598,"date":"2016-11-20T12:32:17","date_gmt":"2016-11-20T17:32:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/?p=4598"},"modified":"2026-08-16T14:08:01","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T18:08:01","slug":"salt-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/?p=4598","title":{"rendered":"Salt-2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Salt-2010<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Director Phillip Noyce<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Starring Angelina Jolie<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Scott&#8217;s Review #522<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/70118402.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4599\" src=\"http:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/70118402-210x300.jpg\" alt=\"70118402\" width=\"210\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/70118402-210x300.jpg 210w, https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/70118402.jpg 284w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Reviewed November 20, 2016<\/p>\n<p><strong>Grade: B+<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Salt (2010) is a very good, fast-paced, political thriller starring Angelina Jolie as a woman accused of being a Russian sleeper agent who must go on the run to clear her name, all the while being chased by officials attempting to accost her.<\/p>\n<p>The film offers nothing new, but seeing Jolie in a role typically played by a man (originally written for Tom Cruise) is cool and makes the film unique.<\/p>\n<p>She is great in the role.<\/p>\n<p>There are twists and surprises along the way that keep the viewer on edge; numerous action and car-chase scenes abound and will keep the action-flick viewer quite pleased.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s fast-paced and very big-budget.<\/p>\n<p>On the downside, I couldn&#8217;t help but think: are they making movies about the United States vs. Russia again?<\/p>\n<p>They are, but I still enjoyed it for what it was.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Oscar Nominations:\u00a0<\/strong>Best Sound Mixing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Salt-2010 Director Phillip Noyce Starring Angelina Jolie Scott&#8217;s Review #522 Reviewed November 20, 2016 Grade: B+ Salt (2010) is a very good, fast-paced, political thriller starring Angelina Jolie as a woman accused of being a Russian sleeper agent who must go on the run to clear her name, all the while being chased by officials &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/?p=4598\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Salt-2010<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[269,11605,380,204],"tags":[8381,2092,7007,4205,3090,10302,1914,11952,3089,12460],"class_list":["post-4598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2010-movie-reviews","category-action","category-political-thriller-films","category-thrillers","tag-andre-braugher","tag-angelina-jolie","tag-august-diehl","tag-chiwetel-ejiofor","tag-corey-stoll","tag-daniel-olbrychski","tag-liev-schreiber","tag-mike-colter","tag-phillip-noyce","tag-victor-slezak"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4598"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24136,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4598\/revisions\/24136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}