Jul 27
SALT is a big summer thriller that really, REALLY wants to be the next BOURNE franchise and nearly succeeds in doing so until a completely brain-dead third act derails the entire film. Fortunately, the movie is entertaining enough to warrant a big screen viewing and star Angelina Jolie does her absolute best with the material at hand, so all is not lost.
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Jul 27
SALT is a big summer thriller that really, REALLY wants to be the next BOURNE franchise and nearly succeeds in doing so until a completely brain-dead third act derails the entire film. Fortunately, the movie is entertaining enough to warrant a big screen viewing and star Angelina Jolie does her absolute best with the material at hand, so all is not lost.
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Turns out, SALT (hitting theaters this Friday) might have gone pretty heavily under the knife to get that coveted PG-13 rating. According to a pretty informative Q&A with director Phillip Noyce and producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura over at CinemaBlend (click HERE to read the full piece), SALT was originally more of an R-rated affair that even featured (shock!) a sex scene between star Angelina Jolie and her on-screen husband August Diehl. However, during the cutting of the movie, the sex scene (briefly glimpsed in the original trailer) and a good deal of backstory for Jolie’s character got dumped by the wayside. Hold on, scratch that, not a good deal of backstory, ALL OF IT got dumped.
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