The Soviet Shall Rise Again

Rating: 4/10 (3 August 2010)

Salt finds Angelina Jolie using the high flying techniques of Lara Croft Tomb Raider as a deep cover Soviet espionage agent, that's right Soviet espionage agent who is now working for our Central Intelligence Agency. For those of you who tend to the paranoid this is the film for you.
Actually this idea is not new, it was used in the Charles Bronson action flick Telefon and in the Sidney Poitier-River Phoenix film Little Nikita. The idea being that deep, very deep cover, espionage agents were planted here by the Soviet Union to await an assignment whatever it might be.
The Soviet Union may be gone, but it is sleeping phoenix like to arise again when folks like Jolie are contacted to do what they were sent here to do. Problem is that Jolie has grown to like America and she's determined to stop the plot which concerns killing the Russian Federation President and starting a nuclear war.
If you believe in the deepest of conspiracies, Salt is the film for you. But if you have half the gray cells in working order upstairs, you'll find Salt as ridiculous as I did. You'll laugh as I did in all the wrong places.