Club Services Committee Invite you to a Movie at Sawtell Cinema

Time: Fri, 24/09/2010 - 6:00pm - 10:30pm

The Club Services Committee is offering a casual get-together on the last Friday of each month to enhance fellowship and community in the club.

Please feel free to attend a casual movie and/ or drinks/ meal in Sawtell this month.

Contact David Schama for more information or if you're interested in attending.

 

Hello Daybreak Members,

As per the Club Services Committee agenda in the Rotary Calendar, we will be having a social evening this Friday at Sawtell Cinema. The film SALT is showing at 7:45 PM with the following information provided if you are interested in attending.

We will be meeting for a pre-movie bite to eat at a venue to be decided around 6 p.m.

Hoping to see you there

David Schama



Salt
Rating: M      Running Time: 1 hrs 40 mins
Commencing: 23rd Sep 10
Synopsis:

When defecting high ranking Russian agent Orlov (Daniel Olbrychski) reveals that CIA officer Evelyn Salt (Angelina Jolie) is really one of several sleeper Russian spies within the US security network, Salt is forced to go on the run as she tries desperately to get her entomologist husband Mike (August Diehl) to safety. Her closest CIA colleague Ted Winter (Liev Schrieber) can't help her and internal security agent Peabody (Chiwetel Ejiofor) wants Salt interrogated - or shut down. But Salt's training comes in handy as she evades the teams of agents after her, and makes contact with Orlov at his hideout, where his team is preparing to start world war three - with her help.

Review by Louise Keller:
Adrenalin-charged action, assured direction and a star turn by Angelina Jolie makes Salt the best condiment on the action thriller movie menu. Surrounding himself with top talent, director Phillip Noyce is in full control as he treats us to a gritty edge-of-seat experience in which the unlikely confluence of danger and glamour sit side by side. Kurt Wimmer's screenplay springboards the action and it never stops - with Jolie full throttle in a demanding physical role that has us reeling from the outset. With never a moment to take a breath, we are thrown headlong into an assassination plot with political ramifications in which loyalty, deception and revenge weave an intriguing tapestry.

Hero or patsy? Who is Salt is the question we are asked when an interrogation with a Russian spy puts Jolie's CIA agent under scrutiny. Is she a sleeper Russian agent instructed to assassinate the Russian President? Is it a case of mistaken identity? Or is there another even more complex answer waiting to be found? Jolie has never been better (or more beautiful) as the risk-taking Evelyn Salt who is vulnerable, feminine and likeable at the same time as being convincingly lethal.

Utilitarian is the new sexy, a phrase used by Salt's CIA boss Ted Winter (Liev Schreiber, excellent), demonstrated as Salt confounds her colleagues by using her nous and anything she has on hand (like her black panties which she casually tosses over the security camera as she makes her escape from the building) The thrills keep coming as the bare-footed Salt negotiates window ledges in high places, throws herself off bridges onto moving trucks, puts her foot down in nifty car chases as well as participating in heavy physical action with bullets flying. It's not just mindless action, there is a rationale to everything that happens including defining character She's smart. Besides, we know she must also be a good person - after all, she even finds time (while on the run) to ensure her dog is safe.

Noyce knows how to shoot action and the editing is sharp too, while James Newton Howard's relentlessly effectively percussive score keeps up the tension. I like Chiwetel Ejiofor as Peabody from Counter Intelligence, whose inflexibility remains a constant right until the final act. This is a superior action thriller that gives us more than our money's worth and peppers our tastebuds for a possible sequel.