Stick with Pepper

Rating: 4/10 (19 August 2010)

Similar to The Hobbit, Bourne 4 finds itself in the middle of no-man's-land with little flavour to wet fans appetites. Jolie's latest heroine excursion as Salt proves to be less than substantial for those hoping not to find a film that seems to dither on occasional blasts of adrenaline, to twists which fall out of grasp to be tied up neat enough to be passable.
Unlike Bourne's rediscovery of identity, Salt is on the run to clear her name and save her husband after a Russian defector accuses her of being KGB sleeper agent. Sadly another misleading trailer leaves an almost bitterly disappointed finished result. It never successfully seems to blend the style and motivation of Salt without going slightly daft in the plot to make the film more definable in its own right.
Salt (the character) takes to new extremes, the lengths of modern day heroes/heroines. The change in lead (it was originally going to be Tom Cruise as the lead) has, if anything, shown Jolie again being superiorly capable in her role as a heroine with a deadly affinity with weapons. And while it may not have been satisfying watching the clunky plot unfold, Angelina has the sex appeal and grace to pull off what a younger budding amateur could not have done to the movie; make it (mostly) work.