I streamed this while wrapping gifts. It’s a good-bad movie – soooo bad you have to keep watching. I have to give writer-director Eric Fosberg credit for his ballsy disregard of genetics, aerodynamics, the second law of thermodynamics, politics, plot logic, story continuity, character development, physics in general and biology in particular. The recurring question is: Can this get more ridiculous? The relentlessly consistent response: Yep. And as if there’s not enough badness in the script, it stars Tiffany (the singer) and Barry Williams (Greg Brady). How can you resist? Perfect for Bad Movie Night.

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Was really into it until it spun out of control toward the end. (Yes, I’m aware of the logic leaps and pratfalls along the way, but my suspend-disbelief fu is very strong.) I’m a sucker for conspiracies and Arcane Knowledge and all that. (Most of the FFing was toward the end.)

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“Salt” is a film for watching, and watching only. You don’t need to know much about the story beyond Salt wants to go here, Salt needs to go there. If you pay close attention, as I did, you are inviting confusion. Great stunts (especially her last kill – wow), and there’s Jolie if you’re into her (I’m not).

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I watched these back to back and they’re very nearly one story.  They’re okay.  Some good action and suspense between all the talk.  I haven’t read the books but I’m told the films are better paced. If that’s true, why are the books so phenomenally popular?

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A prize-winning Australian film with an excellent trailer, good reviews but… meh. The psycho uncle was really creepy, but I thought the pacing was off. It was the orphaned teen’s story but he was so underplayed I couldn’t get into him or care much what happened to him. Supposedly leaves you “stunned.” I wish.

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You’ve heard the expression, “Won’t hold up under close scrutiny” – this won’t withstand even cursory scrutiny, but I’ve gotta say, it’s goofy fun if you turn off your critical faculties. (You’ve got to wear the hat when you turn the knob on the door – was that written with a straight face?) Really, you could waste your time in worse ways.

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A slacker/stoner movie with an alien as one of the slacker/stoners. Nothing particularly original or unpredictable, though it did offer some sly movie references. A good-natured film that doesn’t require much focus on the viewer’s part. The Pegg-Frost chemistry was effortless. Didn’t love it, didn’t hate it. Maybe it’s a lot funnier if you’re stoned. I wasn’t.

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I thought I’d like this better. A lot of good things about it, including the cast, but somehow it didn’t gel for me. I think it ended poorly. I mean, it ended as you knew it must, but lacked catharsis. If I had to place blame, I’d point at the director. Hanna is played too flat; she needs more of an arc. With a few changes, this could have been more satisfying.

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A sometimes funny, sometimes gory alien invasion flick that gets a lot done on a low budget. It’s set in one of the South London sink estates You might want to run the subtitles (I did) because at times the Sowf Lunnon accent’s ‘ard, innit, fam.

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Lots of fun but much too long. It’s more of a caper than a racing flick. It opens with a super-daring break out of Vin Diesel from a prison bus (they say no one was killed in that crash – ha!) and ends with a jaw-dropping chase through Rio that, once you suspend any and all knowledge of physics, is the most fun I’ve had during a chase scene in ages. (Maybe it took place in a non-Newtonian universe.)  I usually FF thru chases – not here.

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