Take my rating with a grain of salt (pun intended), as I wasn't able to get passed more than about 30 minutes of this movie. As others have already noted, acting was surprisingly bad (given I think Shannon has been very good in some films), pace moves about as fast as aforementioned slug, and the whole kidnapping makes no sense. First, there was absolutely no need for it, as the kidnappers could have simply made their issues known to the scientists via normal communication channels, and why would you bother disguising yourself, then just randomly reveal your identity, which wasn't known to the victims anyway? But it did feature one of the silliest attempts to avoid being kidnapped I've seen in something that wasn't considered a comedy (the head thrust into the gut and feeble swing of a brief case), so that was kind of entertaining. Can't believe this was by the same guy that brought us 'Grizzly Man,' though this was a rather grizzly attempt to make a non-documentary film, so perhaps the two are related. Apparently this took only 16 days to film. That's about how long it seemed to take that first half hour to pass.
Review of Salt and Fire
