Make sure that they bring body bags we've got at least seven

Rating: 6/10 (9 January 2012)

***SPOILERS*** Very exciting but factually ridiculous film about this plot to destroy the USA by a group of Soviets sleeper agents on what they've designated to be called X Day: The Day of Judgement! The trouble with all that is that their totally unaware that the Soviet Government that engineered this half baked plan back in he 1970's at the height of the Cold War has been out of circulation or business for almost 20 years.
The top honcho or assassin in this entire scheme turns out to be sleeper CIA agent Evelyn Salt, Angelina Jolie, who's in fact outed by Russian defector Vasily Oriov, Daniel Olbrychski, who claims he dying of cancer and has nothing to lose. As it turned out Salt is to be part of an assassin plan to knock off the Russian President Boris Matveyev, Olek Krupa, who's to attend Vice President Otis' funeral in New York City. It's then that the action really starts popping with Salt having her clover blown now on the run throughout the entire movie for reasons,besides being outed, known only to herself. It seems that Salt has somehow changed her opinion for those she's working for and become a good guy or good gal and joined forces with the good old,where she spent almost her entire life, USA.
It takes a while to realize what's going on in the film with Salt preforming all kinds of superhuman feats like jumping 200 feet with a wet t-shirt from a helicopter, after being shot, into the freezing Potomac River that would make spies and martial art artists like James Bond and Bruce Lee look like stark armatures in comparison. Salt is first involved in the assassination of President Matveyev and then for no reason whats so ever turns on her Soviet sleeper comrades, whom she put to sleep permanently, ending up knocking off the entire crew. Including Vasily Oriov who in fact turned out to be her father! There's also the very pressing problem facing Salt in that theirs a mole in the CIA who's using her to do all his dirty work! He's then planning to ice Salt and become a hero in saving the USA and the world, that this sleeper unit he's part of was planning, from nuclear destruction.
Algelina Jolie is very convincing as the indestructible Evelyn Salt who's out to save the world with the world,or US Government,out to stop her in thinking that she's in fact really trying to destroy it. Salt's boss in the CIA Ted Winter, Liev Schreiber, doesn't quite know what to make of her in feeling that Salt is somehow a double agent and playing a deadly game of cat and mouse with both countries that she's working for. The same goes for head of White House security Mr. Peabody, Chiwetel Ejlofor, who despite all the damage Salt caused him, killing dozens of his men, feels that she's really on the right side, the USA, of the issues.
***SPOILERS*** There's also Salt's husband Michael Krause, August Diehl, who's expertise in spider venom comes in very handy for Salt later on in the film in being able to bring back the dead in the case of Russian President Boris Matveyev. An event that not only blows the entire plan of setting off a Third World War, by Oriov & Co, but ended up costing Michael his life.