Angelina's most excellent adventure

Rating: 2/10 (26 February 2011)

This I guess is supposed to be Angelina's breakout vehicle, the movie where she shows us she can out Schwarzenegger Bruce Willis, that she doesn't depend on her looks (she even disguises herself as a MAN, how brave is that?), that she can communicate complex plot lines with a sultry stare; oh wait, we're back to the beautiful woman thing again. Damn. I guess this means she'll shop around for another breakout vehicle, which means we'll be tortured one more time. Jolie, who is fast becoming the Liz Taylor of her generation with multiple babies substituting multiple husbands, is resting on her IRL fame. I get that this is an action flick and not a documentary, but it is simply not believable that a 95 lb woman can outfight about 50 two hundred pound trained bruisers, not to mention outwit the combined intelligence agencies of the USSR, Russia, and the US, oh wait, maybe that part could be believable, given the US president's wooden dialogue and plot holes large enough to accommodate several ICBMs. It's good for a laugh, I suppose, and some credit should be given to Jolie for performing without showing us once even one inch of cleavage (she clearly used a body double in the opening scenes in the North Korean prison, where all prisoners are apparently forced to wear Victoria's Secret naughty things as part of their re-education and brainwashing. God, that Kim Jong Il is SO diabolical).