2010 Preview: Salt - 電影院

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2010 Preview: Salt

by Brandon Gray
February 5, 2010

Release Date: July 23
Studio: Colombia
Genre: Action Thriller
Director: Phillip Noyce
Noyce的代表作是哈里遜福特的傑克萊恩系列，也跟裘莉合作過人骨拼圖
Writer: Kurt Wimmer and Brian Helgeland
Wimmer是重裝任務的編導，近作是重案對決
Helgeland的代表作是神秘河流，最近的羅賓漢也是他的作品
Cast: Angelina Jolie, Liev Schreiber, Chiwetel Ejiofor

Studio Description:
Evelyn Salt (Jolie) is a CIA officer who swore an oath to duty, honor,
and country. When she is accused by a defector of being a Russian sleeper
spy, Salt goes on the run to clear her name and ultimately prove she is
a patriot.

Using all her skills and years of experience as a covert operative,
she must elude capture and protect her husband or the world's most
powerful forces will erase any trace of her existence.

官方資料︰
艾芙林索特(裘莉)是一位承諾要負責、保護榮譽與國家安全的CIA探員
當她被指控是一名俄國臥底間諜時，索特為了洗刷她的清白
並且證明她是愛國者，因此展開了一場大逃亡
在擔任多年探員學習的技巧與豐富的經驗下，
她必須躲避追緝並保護她的丈夫，否則世界最強大的軍方
將會把她存在的證據一一洗掉...

Analysis:
With Salt, Angelina Jolie is playing right in her wheelhouse.
Since her rise to fame, the actress has found box office success in the
action genre, but audiences have mostly ignored her in any other genre.
Her exotic bad girl image has worked well in action hits like Lara Croft:
Tomb Raider ($131.2 million), Mr. & Mrs. Smith ($186.3 million) and
Wanted ($134.5 million), but has proved largely unrelatable in her other
roles, ranging from the box office disaster Beyond Borders ($4.4 million)
to the modest Changeling ($35.7 million).

分析︰
這部安潔麗娜裘莉的新片，正是她多年以來的拿手片型
自從她成名以來，她主演的動作片在票房上可說是常勝軍
但觀眾卻幾乎忽略了她在其他類型影片的表現
她帶有異國風味的壞女孩形象，讓幾部動作片在美國都有票房破億的成績
其中，史密斯任務表現最好，有1.863億
但她卻無法證明她也能在其他影片中，吸引觀眾的目光
她備受稱讚的"陌生的孩子"，票房不到4千萬
票房災難"戰火情人"甚至只有440萬

Salt dashes into theaters on July 23, the same date as The Bourne Supremacy
back in 2004. That's not a random point, because Salt comes off as a female
Bourne in a trailer that slickly sets up the movie's premise and shows off
some spectacular action scenes.

Clearing one's name and going on the run to find the truth are perennially
popular themes for action thrillers, working like gangbusters in the Bourne
series, Mission: Impossible, Minority Report, Enemy of the State, The Fugitive
and many more.

特務間諜將於7月23日在戲院上映，跟六年前"神鬼認證2"是同一個日期
這其實不是巧合，因為特片預告中透露的故事情節
與壯觀的動作場面，都讓人聯想到是神鬼認證的女性版

主角生命受到威脅，因而必須一邊逃亡一邊找到事情真相
一直以來都是動作驚悚片最受歡迎的設定情節
這些電影包括︰神鬼認證系列、不可能的任務、關鍵報告、全民公敵、
絕命追殺令...等

While drudging up the Russians as villains again may seem passé, the
combination of a compelling action thriller premise, kinetic stunts and a
star aligned with her bankable persona could pepper Salt with sizable box
office returns.

雖然以俄國人當作反派看起來是個過時的老梗
但是由於本片結合了吸引人的驚悚動作片設定、動作特技，
加上過往戰果輝煌的超級巨星，特務間諜依然可望在票房上有不錯的收穫

小評:本片有一個利多,那就是獲得了更能吸引年輕觀眾的PG-13分級
然而,上映時機剛好距離另一部動作大片"全面啟動"只有一周
恐怕也是一個不得不去注意的變數



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