where: CENTURY 14 VALLEJO in Vallejo, CA
when: Friday, July 23rd, 2010
show: 11:35 a.m. ( Extra Dollar Off First Show Matinee )
costs: $6.25 Ticket + $6.49 # 13 Value Meal @ MacDonald's Restaurant after the show = $12.74
auditorium: 7
seat: 5th row, 8ht column
synopsis: E. Salt: Weed A Deadly Weapon ( There are two word plays here, as in ... "Evelyn Salt: Get rid of her 'cause she's dangerous" and "Assault with a deadly weapon." Get it? Got it. Good! )
A CIA operative, Evelyn Salt ( Angelina Jolie ) is on the run after being fingered as a Russian double-agent planning a political assassination in the hope of triggering an all-out war.
noteworthy scenes: 1.) North Korean prison; 2.) The walk-in informant, Orlov ( Daniel Olbrychski ); 3.) The child; 4.) Pre-school spy school; 5.) Day X; 6.) K-A 12; 7.) Truthful; 8.) Elevator attack; 9.) Fire extinguisher; 10.) Little girl's bedroom; 11.) Freeway chase; 12.) Moscow car accident; 13.) Ladies' room; 14.) "No future for us"; 15.) Spy kit; 16.) Funeral procession; 17.) Train; 18.) Two MIAs; 19.) Pipe organ; 20.) Bomb; 21.) Crypt; 22.) Police cars; 23.) Hospital corridor; 24.) "My greatest creation"; 25.) Execution; 26.) Double-cross; 27.) NATO liaison ; 28.) Act of war; 29.) Elevator shaft; 30.) Def-Con 2; 31.) Surprise attack; 32.) Mecca/Tehran; 33.) TV news; 34.) The patsy; 35.) The chain; 36.) "You know"; 37.) Text message; and 38.) The Potomac River.
audience reaction: There was a large crowd in attendance, a quarter of which sat all the way through the end of the Ending Credits. So, my guess is that this movie appealed to them.
recommendation: I liked this movie. This is a good action movie that will appeal not only to Action Movie fans but to Angelina Jolie fans, as well.
spoiler alert! How did Evelyn go from being an helpless damsel in distress to being an efficient one-woman killing machine? One would think that the CIA building was safe and secure enough to have highly sensitive x-rays and metal detectors in place that could easily detect an hidden retractable knife in someone's shoe! Why did the informant do what he did in the elevator, at the expense of blowing his cover? How did Evelyn pay for her taxi-cab fare? Oh, wait a minute, she wasn't wearing any panties--I guess that I just answered this particular question. L.o.l. If Winter ( Liev Schreiber ) wanted Evelyn to complete her mission, why didn't he put any effort into blocking the shots fired by Peabody ( Chiwetel Ejiofor )? There was no way that Evelyn could have kept herself in place, without having a seat-belt on, when the police SUV crashed! Am I the only one in this world who noticed that Evelyn's male disguise made her look like Ralph Macchio ( the original KARATE KID [ 1984 ] )? In the White House bunker, when the US President (? ) was on the telephone, a close-up shot of his left hand showed that he had an hang-nail on his ring finger! What? Don't they have a manicurist in the White House or on the set? A US president with hang-nails--geez! This is worse than Lindsay Lohan's nail-polished-with-a-message middle finger during her day in court just recently. Why didn't the Secret Service Agents shoot Evelyn when she was strangling somebody to death? It is relatively easy to find the other "sleeper" agents: Just find out which Americans were born and raised in Russia as children, then put into adoption by American families! Uh-oh, my sister in Michigan has in-laws who adopted a couple of Russian boys--now, I'm worried--I'm gonna have to keep tabs on those two from now on! Ha, ha, ha. There's talk of a sequel .... But I would take that with a grain of salt ( pun intended ) since, from a Medical stand-point, being that Evelyn was almost practically skin-and-bones borderline anorexic, she probably suffered from the effects of hypothermia and froze to death! ( Unless, of course, she happened upon a "Good Samaritan" like me who talked her into taking-off all her clothes so that he could warm her up with his--ahem--body heat. 'Sure beats drinking hot chocolate anytime! )
fyi: Supposedly, all the civilians who witnessed the assassination of President Kennedy were all dead within two years of the fateful event--men, women and children!
In the book, BEHOLD A PALE HORSE, George Bush, Sr., who was the head of the CIA back then, is accused of being the one responsible for the assassination of President Kennedy. According to the book, the reason why President Kennedy was assassinated was because he was about to tell the whole world the truth about UFOs. The book not only talks about UFOs but about Secret Societies, as well, and is quite a fascinating one to read. Get a copy for yourself, if you can. By the way, its author, former US Naval Intelligence Officer Bill Cooper, was assassinated two months after the events of 9/11 as he was preparing to implicate the George Bush, Jr. administration in the "terrorist acts".
I remember a gathering in my boyhood home in Kidapawan, Cotabato, Mindanao, Philippines one afternoon. I was in the upstairs living room where my parents were entertaining some guests. My mother was with two other ladies when I overheard the topic of their conversation: The president of America just died. I was too young to know what "president" and "America" were. But, judging by the adults' grave tone of voice, I knew it was something really serious and important, which was probably why I was able to remember it in the first place.
If you don't think that there is such a thing as a Mass Media Black-Out, consider this: From 2008 until 2009, over 176,000 Christians were slaughtered throughout the world, most notably in North Korea! That works out to one Christian killed every three minutes. But you probably never read that in the newspapers or saw it in the evening news. And, although North Korea tops the list according to the July, 2010 issue of the Levitt Letter ( Zola Levitt Ministries, Inc.; WWW.Levitt.Com ), most of the other countries, 35 out of 50, found guilty of committing such an heinous act against humanity are predominantly Muslim countries--if you're a Christian, think about that next time before you become anti-Semitic and side with the Muslim militants! ( When it comes to Ethnic Cleansing, Muslims don't make a sharp distinction between Jews and Christians--we're all the same to them, after all, Jesus was a Jew. )
Go to WWW.Levitt.Com to read-up on important news that have been censored by the mass media! Just be warned: Some of the photos of victims shown are emotionally hard to view.
Angelina Jolie is actually a natural blonde. But she took to dyeing her hair black since her teenage years for whatever reason.
Originally, this movie was made with Tom Cruise in mind to play the lead role. But Angelina Jolie liked the script so much that she "pulled some major strings" to get herself the part. I guess this is all well and good because I don't think I'd care to see Tom Cruise's character bound, gagged and tortured while he's wearing nothing but a bra and a pair of see-through panties! Ha, ha, ha---( snort! ).
word of advice: Leave family out of it ( whatever "IT" is ).
tidbits: Here's my alternate movie title for those in the know, i.e. Angelina Jolie fans: MRS. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON.
I was gonna go to the midnight show, but I changed my mind at the last minute because I thought that the movie wouldn't be entertaining enough for me and not worth the trip and the consequential dark circles under my eyes the following day.
