Did Russia become a superpower again while I wasn't watching?

Rating: 3/10 (15 May 2011)

Nothing is worse than a movie that uses an outdated premise, cliché villains, yet takes itself very, very seriously. Salt does all things and does them poorly (and it doesn't help that I think Angelina Jolie is a freak).
Apparently, decades ago, the KGB (remember them from 1980's spy movies?) took young orphans and trained them to be super spy sleeper agents in countries around the world and now, twenty years after the fall of the wall, they are being activated to destroy America once and for all......yeah, I thought it was gay too. Anyway, Angelina Jolie works for the CIA as America's top super spy, little does anyone know she is really a Russian super spy posing as an American super spy who is actually not posing as the American super spy but really is, confused yet? Don't worry, Angelina's identity confusion is the least of your worries in this film, mostly because everybody else with any kind of part in the film is also suffering from "sleeper agent syndrome" apparently they are everywhere, pretty good for a country that couldn't get adequate supplies of toilet paper to the general populace.
The final grand plan is to nuke Tehran and Mecca with U.S. nukes to incite the Muslim world to destroy America (not real sure how they would do that, seeing as how we just blasted the crap out of Iraq and Afghanistan without really breaking a sweat but just go with it). The plan to get the nukes is about as far fetched as you can get, but so was the assassination of the Russian president earlier in the film, as were the three escape sequences, and well pretty much the rest of the film so I suppose breaking into the White House command bunker during lockdown fits right in. Salt makes little to no sense, feels incredibly behind the times, and just plain sucks.