All eyes on a sleeper spy.

Rating: 8/10 (8 September 2010)

It is very doubtful you could catch a catnap during this action-thriller when filmmakers like Peter Berg, Brian Helgeland, Phillip Noyce and Kurt Wimmer get together. Evelyn Salt(Angelina Jolie), a dedicated CIA agent, is accused by a defector of being a Russian sleeper spy. Salt tries to convince her mentor and supervisor Winter(Liev Schreiber)of her innocence. Circumstances force Salt to go rouge, using every tactic and disguise in her training, to stay ahead of her pursuers in order to prove her loyalty and protect her newlywed German husband. The longer she eludes ambitious CIA agent Peabody(Chiwetel Ejiofor); the more suspicion is placed on her real motives. The action is hard, swift and pulse-pounding. Don't be so certain you can predict the story's end. Jolie is not just beautiful...she is volatile. The cast if fleshed out by the likes of August Diehl, Andre Braugher, Daniel Olbrychski, Zach Shaffer and Olek Krupa.