You will be hooked up, until you are fed up with plot holes

Rating: 5/10 (16 April 2011)

This is a very nice movie that will keep you hooked with the story. You even start guessing the reasons behind some of the stupid decisions made, like for example:
Salt states that she "is not who the Koreans think she is", and that she just works for some oil company. That's fine. We even see her later working inside an Oil company. Later on, not only do we know that this building is a CIA center, but also a Russian defect spy also knows about it because he turned himself in in that building. Maybe he surrendered somewhere else and was brought there, but that was not handled correctly.
And why would Orlov go to the CIA building in the first place? Would it not be easier if he could somehow isolate Salt and give her the Green Light for the operation she was programmed for when she was a little kid? I mean, why would he want the CIA to be alert about the operation which is supposed to be "secret/confidential"? Having the CIA's run after them would slow if not abort their mission. What purpose does his presence in the CIA building serve other than EXPOSITION to the viewer which can be done tons of other ways better than here.
Also, when salt is about to "kill" the Russian VIP, she points her gun at him, and the camera cuts to somewhere else, and then we hear a gunshot, and we assume she killed him. When in fact she just injected him with a spider venom. Did she need to point the gun at him? I mean, it is not like she told him: "I'm gunna inject you with this stuff. If you refuse, I will shoot you!". If that is the case, then why the GUNSHOT? It is like the director really wanted the viewer to be a stupid and assume that she killed him. Even when the agents arrive later and find him "dead" they don't say he is dead. We don't see any gunshot wound, they simply say "I can feel a pulse", because if they said "he is dead" then the plot twist might not work later. What a messy way to plant a plot twist.
Another issue: I can believe that she went inside the white house disguised as a NATO officer, and she does look like a man, but her voice is still feminine! That should have been more than enough to raise suspicion. Also, she was wearing a bullet proof vest, and that did not show up on the security scanning! Way unlikely (But then again, she might have gain access to a vest later, after she went inside).
This scene, however, make it very clear to you that the lead character for this film was intended for a man. They just couldn't work around changing the gender, and re-writing the script appropriately.
This is my first REALLY LONG review and I hope you have though of the same points that I have raised. If so, and you have answers, please share them at ahmad.mutawa (at) gmail.com
I give this movie 5 out of 10 just because I was never bored when I watched it. The other 5 goes away due to plot holes mainly.