Salt

**Doc Holliday** · 22 Jul 2010, 01:33 PM

Ebert likes it!

"Salt" is a damn fine thriller. It does all the things I can't stand in bad movies, and does them in a good one. It's like a rebuke to all the lousy action movie directors who've been banging pots and pans together in our skulls. It winds your clock tight and the alarm doesn't go off for 100 minutes.

It's gloriously absurd. This movie has holes in it big enough to drive the whole movie through. The laws of physics seem to be suspended here the same way as in a Road Runner cartoon. Angelina Jolie runs full speed out into thin air and doesn't look down until she's in the helicopter at the end.

Jolie is one fine-looking woman. You don't need me to tell you that. It's why she gets the big bucks. The movies have celebrated her eyes, lips, profile, biceps, boobs, waist, butt, thighs. “Salt" pays tribute to her ankles. Anyone who can jump from the heights she does here, in the way she does it, may die from a lot of causes, but a sprained ankle won't be one of them.

ebert

**Shin Johnpv** · 22 Jul 2010, 02:08 PM

I worked on this. Though it was just animating some debris and wires from a stun gun. The cast and crew showing was last night and it was pretty good. Unfortunately since I'm not staff and the credits went long I got cut from the credit list that rolls at the end of the movie, but at least I'm on the credit list on IMDB.

The movie itself was pretty good. I have to say it kept the intensity up through out most of the flick. One of those movies that never really slows down once it gets going. I would agree with Ebert that the movie has holes you could drive 3 semis through but its still fun and enjoyable. My biggest complaint is the ever popular shaky cam for the fight scenes, although its no where's near as bad as in say the Bourne movies.