Salt

"Who is Salt?" It's an ingredient. No, the tagline is not about a cooking class. It's the tagline of Philip Noyce's Salt starring Angelina Jolie. Well, it's been sometimes since we last saw her.2 years since her last appearance in Changeling. Salt was originally has Tom Cruise as the lead, but later on Angelina Jolie casted as the lead.

Evelyn Salt (Angelina Jolie) is a CIA agent who is being accused of being a sleeper agent working for an organization built in the Cold War. A defector named Orlov (Daniel Olbrychski) told the CIA, that Evelyn Salt is a Russian agent named Chenkov who's tasked to kill the Russian president at the funeral of the vice president of the United States. Her friend, Ted Winter (Liev Schreiber), didn't believe the accusation. But later on, Salt escape from the CIA office. She then rushed to her apartment to search for her husband, Mike (August Diehl), only to find her husband missing. She managed to escape the counter-intelligence agency and goes to New York, where the Russian president will attend the ceremony.

Recently, I played Assassin's Creed 2, and I found out that Salt has similar things in common. Free running, jumping around the place, do some undercover stuff. Except of course, Ezio used hidden blade, not spider or guns. Angelina Jolie did all of the action scene herself without stuntman involved. What a dedication she made for this movie.

In general, Philip Noyce works is awesome. Although still it cannot beat Inception, in my opinion, but it is creating a new franchise. As there is no female agent out there as a theme right? (You know we're bored of the triple JB. James Bond, Jason Bourne, and Justin Bieber. Oh no, I mean Jack Bauer.)

Last thing, from the last scene, we can expect for a sequel come later. It clearly said that it should be another sequel. As the ending is not the happily ever after thing.

Inception

"Nothing to said, must watch movie of 2010." You really should do anything to watch this movie. The other agenda can wait, just watch Inception. Even if you goes straight back to the cinema to watch another Inception at the same day, it'll still be exciting to watch. Oh hey, why I put my conclusion paragraph upfront? Because Inception is too good to be true.

Okay, back to the basic, Inception is directed by the praise-and-hail-upon-him Christopher Nolan. The Prestige? Batman Begins? or the mega blockbuster, The Dark Knight? All of his movie are perfectly-pitched. Also features, Leonardo DiCaprio, Ken Watanabe, Ellen Page, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Marion Cottilard, Tom Hardy, and Cillian Murphy.

The $160 million movie is about dream extractor. What is it? Well it is someone who can show up in your dream, and steal your idea. Confused? Me too. And it's not just an ordinary dream, it's like another world. Dominic Cobb (Leonardo Dicaprio) is one of them. He said, his the best on the job. Together with him is his friend, Arthur (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), he's already done many extraction job. Then it comes when Saito (Ken Watanabe) a powerful man asked them to do 'inception', the opposite of extraction, and much harder job. Inception is the act to plant an idea into someone. To do this they need a new dream architect (okay, I'll explain it, dream architect is the one who creates and design the dream world, so the victim won't recognize that they're dreaming.) So he recruits his father best student, Ariadne (Ellen Page), to be his architect. And also joining his team, Eames (Tom Hardy) and the chemist, Yusuf (Dileep Rao) to help him. His target is the heir to Saito's rival company, Robert Fischer (Cillian Murphy). And so their bank-robbery type crime begins.

Hmm, I'll make it clear. I'm not gonna spoil the plot. So I only gave you the basic. Because, got to watch it for yourself to understand it.

For the review, as far as today, this is the movie of the year. Every character has its own depth, beautifully developed. Each scene is flawless. The raw idea is wonderful, and the process to make it comes true also smoothly done. No, I'm not being exaggerated. I'm not paid by Christopher Nolan or what. Inception is indeed a masterpiece.

But I'm telling you, go to the bathroom, buy some food, buy some drinks, before you watch Inception. And, turn off your phone, tell your friend to be quiet. Because any slight intervention that makes you turns away from the movie, and voila, you just got yourself confused. The plot is moving in fast-paced. Just as the other heist-type movie or thriller movie (remember Ocean's eries? or maybe Michael Clayton? Burn After Reading?)

"Nothing to said, must watch movie of 2010." You really should do anything to watch this movie. The other agenda can wait, just watch Inception. (Yes, I know, I'm repeating the first paragraph.)