Stupidity Is Hollywood's Action Specialty

Rating: 3/10 (8 June 2013)

Some people may tell you that "Salt is a fun movie". I suppose it is if you can completely forget logic and most of your common sense for about 2 hours. People also might say, "why does every movie have to be realistic, why can't movies just be good mindless fun"? Well they can be, however it works a lot better when the film actually takes you into another world such as Edward Scissorhands or Pan's Labyrinth, or if the film doesn't take itself so seriously, such as The Rundown or Die Hard. It also helps when the story is more than just a jumping board for cheap stunts and corny plot twists. Salt does not take us anywhere beyond the same old Hollywood garbage dump filled with lazy dialogue, plot twists that you can see coming for miles, boring characters and very few redeeming qualities at all.
Salt is pure action fluff meant only to fill the theatre seats with naive kids, waiting to see their over hyped super star Angelina Jolie kick some ass. To anyone that actually still uses their brains, this is dreadfully boring stuff.
Some people hold to the theory that it's okay for Hollywood to make these total action fluff films with weakly written scripts. According to them, people need to relax and not take films so seriously. Well let me tell you this. If I was to be accepting of stupid films such as Salt, I would only be encouraging Hollywood to continue making films without any meaning, without any real feelings, and even without a tangible story at all. I'm sorry, but for my entertainment dollar I expect more than an overwritten and under thought reversion of The Roadrunner cartoon. The Roadrunner kicks the crap out of Salt any day, and why, because it was simple fun. Fluff action should always be simple fun, rather than overtly dumb. Salt takes itself way too seriously for the predictable nothing that it truly amounts to in the end. Don't waste your time or money...
3/10