A movie review of the action film called Salt, starring Angelina Jolie and Liev Schreiber.
I was once told by an influential, real-world movie critic that it doesn’t matter when you write about something because your readers will still want to see what you have to say about it. Though more timely is better. I didn’t go see Salt in the movie theater when it came out because the marketing didn’t seem to warrant my time. Now, after having seen it and writing up this movie review, I wish I had gone and seen it in the theater. It’s actually a fun action flick.
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Salt is directed by Phillip Noyce, whose directorial credits involve Catch a Fire, The Quiet American, & The Bone Collector. It would seem that this action movie was in capable hands and was distributed by Columbia Pictures.
The basic outline of Salt says that a CIA agent goes on the run after a Russian defector identifies her as being a spy for his side.
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I only knew two things going into this movie… the tagline I noted above and that two pretty decent action stars in Angelina Jolie and Liev Schreiber. Both are rather versatile actors.
It also starred Chiwetel Ejiofor (2012, American Gangster), who any Serenity fan will remember as The Operative who pursued Mal and his crew relentlessly. Well he was relentlessly pursuing someone else again!
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Movie Review
Kung Fu Panda 2 continues the fun we came to appreciate in the first movie, but now, we have a developed, trained Po (Jack Black), who embodies the essence of Kung Fu. It’s fun and if you’re pondering if you should do the 2D or 3D experience, I’d suggest the 3D version. I’ll tell you why below.
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Jack Black as Po
Kung Fu Panda 2, produced by DreamWorks Animation and distributed by Paramount Pictures, stars the voice power of Jack Black as our last surviving Kung Fu hero Panda named Po. Black is joined by the other voices of Angelina Jolie as Tigress, Dustin Hoffman (Shifu), Gary Oldman (Shen), Jackie Chan (Monkey), Seth Rogen (Mantis), Lucy Liu (Viper), David Cross (Crane), Dennis Haysbert (Master Ox), Jean-Claude Van Damme (Master Croc) and lots more.
I previously questioned in one of my “weekly new movies at the box office” article if a new director, Jennifer Yuh, could pull it off, but being an animated feature, I didn’t know how to compare. Yuh did just fine if you ask me!
The first 2008 film had caught my attention when it hit HBO channel and I caught it on the ‘On Demand’ section… a few times. It was a fun little movie that embodies struggling against self-doubt and embracing what you are meant to do or who you really are. And it never got old, regardless of how many times I watched it.
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