So he comes gunning - er, whipping for Stark, having assembled a metal exoskeleton that includes a pair of steel-cable whips that course with electric bolts Movie Tarzan and the Lost City. They're like super-laser-knife thingies, capable of slicing a Grand Prix racer in two with surgical precision Movie Tarzan and the Lost City. Kurt Wimmer's screenplay for Salt is riddled with the sort of Swiss Cheese plot-holes that normally drive me up a wall, but happily, they only rear their ugly head AFTER the movie is over, and by then, it's too late Movie Tarzan and the Lost City. As it unspools, the movie is one hell of an amusement park ride and on that level, it delivers the goods and then some Movie Tarzan and the Lost City. Angelina Jolie is Evelyn SALT - a CIA agent with a Russian past. The opening minutes pull us into a scene with a Russian defector who Salt speaks to in an interrogation room Movie Tarzan and the Lost City. Suddenly a plan to kill the Russian president is on board and Salt is implicated by the defector as a double agent just before he leaves the building Movie Tarzan and the Lost City. Here's where the action begins. None other than a James Bond spider woman, Angelina Jolie jumps out of buildings, on to moving trucks, strong arms agents like they were silly putty and wrenches a motorcycle from a driver when the freeway jams Movie Tarzan and the Lost City. Unlike James Bond, Jolie has a husband and his safety is her MO. Here's why James Bond never marries, pretty much through all of the film, her husband is her main concern, and why she needs to stay on the run. But at least she gets to be spider woman Movie Tarzan and the Lost City. Her husband is a German anachronologist that somehow sprung her from North Korea military for being a spy and afterwards she continues her domesticated life until fate has its way Movie Tarzan and the Lost City. After her escape from the CIA Building San Francisco native Liev Schreiber as Ted Winter Dev Patel, though, is bad enough in this film to distract my attention from pretty much every other performance Movie Tarzan and the Lost City. If "Slumdog Millionaire" was his breakthrough, then this is his breakdown Movie Tarzan and the Lost City. He is truly awful here, and his earnestness as he has to spit out ridiculous dialogue that basically just hammers one point over and over is pretty much laughable. Whatever Patel is, he's not threatening or menacing or particularly charismatic. His personality was perfectly suited for his role in "Slumdog," but he's as miscast as poor Ringer, the two of them offering no polar charges at all, a problem when they are ostensibly your bad guy and good guy for the film Movie Tarzan and the Lost City. Cliff Curtis, who I normally like, is weirdly bad as Fire Lord Ozai, gnawing scenery every single time he shows up Movie Tarzan and the Lost City. And then there's Aasif Mandvi, a regular correspondent on "The Daily Show," and although he's got a long career as an actor under his belt, that "Daily Show" gig has absolutely destroyed my ability to take him seriously Movie Tarzan and the Lost City. It's like if Rob Corddry showed up as the villain in the new "Die Hard" film and played it totally straight. He might be able to pull it off, but there's no way I'd be able to take it seriously Movie Tarzan and the Lost City.