{"id":4598,"date":"2016-11-20T12:32:17","date_gmt":"2016-11-20T17:32:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/?p=4598"},"modified":"2026-04-15T10:16:29","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T14:16:29","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 that has not been seen countless times before in movies like this, but seeing Jolie in a role typically played by a male (the role was originally written for Tom Cruise), is cool and makes the film unique in itself.<\/p>\n<p>She is great in the role.<\/p>\n<p>There are some 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 is quite 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 could not help but enjoy 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":[269,151,8379,2087,3088,10295,1908,3087,204],"tags":[270,152,8381,2092,3090,10302,1914,3089,258],"class_list":["post-4598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2010-movie-reviews","category-actionfilms","category-andre-braugher","category-angelina-jolie","category-corey-stoll","category-daniel-olbrychski","category-liev-schreiber","category-phillip-noyce","category-thrillers","tag-2010-movie-reviews","tag-action-films","tag-andre-braugher","tag-angelina-jolie","tag-corey-stoll","tag-daniel-olbrychski","tag-liev-schreiber","tag-phillip-noyce","tag-thrillers"],"_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":7,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19796,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4598\/revisions\/19796"}],"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}]}}