Salt and Moon

I saw both these movies over the weekend, Salt at the cinema and Moon on DVD.

The both have something in common - they both reveal all the information up front, with a final twist to produce tension.

In Salt, it kind of works. The premise is that Evelyn Salt, a CIA agent, is accused of being a member of a Russian sleeper cell. Almost immediately we know that this is in fact true. But will she fulfil her mission? Is our understanding of her mission accurate? It's very interesting to watch the plot unfold, although it is fairly predictable - we're waiting to be tricked. But the writing is sufficient, and Angelina Jolie is gorgeous, so it works.

As for Moon... I'm fairly disappointed in Moon. The trailer made it look like a paranoid, claustrophobic masterpiece, but really it was meh. We know everything almost immediately, but there's no tension at all. Even the addition of a countdown doesn't make you care about the characters and what happens to them. There's no atmosphere at all (ha, lunar joke). It's simply a case of the story not living up to it's potential. Oh well.

Trailers: Scott Pilgrim vs The World (ooooooh) and The Girl Who Played With Fire (aaaaaaaah).