All action, no substance

Rating: 5/10 (12 August 2011)

This film is quite simply the Angelina Jolie show. It seems like the makers of this film just had $110 million dollars to blow and spent most of it on stunts and forgot about the plot. I knew from the first minute that Salt was going to be poor, it just had bog standard spy film written all over it.
This film is clichéd in so many ways. We hear some rubbish about some baby who was alive then dead then alive again and some secret Russian spy program. All of this is just stupid and complicates the plot. Most of it though is just Angelina Jolie doing stunts . For the first half of the film all that really happens is that Evelyn Salt makes some makeshift explosive, scales some buildings and jumps about on some lorries. I have also never seen Russians depicted in such a stereotypical manner. They just drink vodka and carry machine guns around.
The storyline then just gets more stupid. For instance, we find out that although at first the Russina president was confirmed dead he was actually just paralyzed by her husband's spider venom. How convenient that he discovered a spider with the capabilities to do that. I'm sure also that many doctors would make that mistake of confirming a president dead. There are more revelations such as another one of the CIA agents also being a Russian mole who of course ends up fighting Salt. However, as always Angie saves the day by saving the world from nuclear war when the missiles are 99% ready.
This film is just badly thought out. OK, it may be entertaining on some levels but this is limited as the storyline is so bland. If you're not an action fan, I would definitely advise you to stay away from this film.