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Rating: 1/10 (10 September 2010)

I went to see this film after a friend's sister recommended it. I went in with the knowledge that Angelina has previously not played the lead in any film I have liked and the trailer for this looked terrible. Open mind as much as I could. The story seemed like it was locked in a draw marked "80's cold war plots" that has been adapted to modern day my mentioning the Middle East in the script in the final moments and giving people blackberry's. I did one interesting thing through the movie where it confused me for a minute as to who she was and what here motives were. Even to the point that I thought she had a twin which might have made an interesting twist. Sadly no such twist as it played out she was super woman in a little skinny woman's body, Russians are bad, and Americans are great.
The Cast defiantly "mailed it in" on this one. Starting with Angelina she pouts and looks annoyed all movies and I know people are really attracted to her but just not my cup of tea. Her acting is wooden and makes no connection with the audience so I did not care what happened to the wronged "Salt". Liev Schreiber puts in his usual presence as toughest guys in the room and has the best performance of the lot but with a script this weak what can you expect. Chiwetel Ejiofor who I have liked in other things played the chasing agent role that is marked "insert actor here" limited again. Probably the strangest cast choice in the film is August Diehl who plays Salt's husband that changed her life. He has a look a look that says he might have been the one behind it all. A strange choice for Angelina's hubby, or it could have been a deliberate one to get away from a Brad clone in the role.
I did not like this film and would not recommend it to anyone. If you like bad acting, weak writing, big explosions, and huge plot holes this will be a great night out for you.
SPOILERS of plot holes She was trained as a Russian spy until 6 all the prep you need to be super woman
The white house bunker has so many security holes it's like a video game
Angelina would shatter if she fell off the sidewalk let alone stop motorbike, jump onto moving vehicles and fall out of helicopters
A boat of Russian spies from the academy that were covered in Russian mafia tattoos?? Subtle
she was innocent but had all the plans to carry out an assassination?
If USA needed to launch weapons we better hope the Russians can hold for the 10 min countdown