Another amazing plot ruined by the Hollywood obsession of the "good" side winning

Rating: 5/10 (1 February 2012)

OK, let's start with the positives: - Amazing action - Awesome acting - Very good plot in most parts of the movie, except for the last third part of it
That's about it. Now let's go to the negatives, which is mainly THE PLOT. Kurt Wimmer has the ability to write amazing plot lines, always making the audience wonder what is going on and if the motives of the protagonists are actually valid or not. However, somehow he always ruins the ending by miraculous acts of gods, ridiculous mistakes done by the "bad guys" and impossible feats done by the "good guys" that usually defy every law of physics. My bone with this movie is that it had the potential of being a great action film, but it's ruined completely by the obsession of Hollywood to make the "good guys" (usually Americans) win under any circumstances. I will address some of the main issues I have with the plot here.
First off, the russians, for absolutely no reason at all, kill Angelina Jolie's husband, as an attempt to make her sever all ties she had with her previous life, but instead (obviously) making her angry and killing them all, when they could have ensured her loyalty by simply keeping the guy as a hostage, as logic dictates.
Then, we have Ted Winter (who is the loyal Russian spy here) making the mistake of killing everyone in the White House bunker EXCEPT the president, who is not needed alive anyway, and who could compromise the whole Russian scheme if he walked out of the room and either cancelled the nuclear strike or could point out of Ted Winter being a Russian spy instigating world war 3. He wakes up to assist Salt in eliminating Winter. Why oh why did you not kill EVERYONE Winter?
Finally, the biggest problem of all, is that the American nuclear missile strike took almost 15 minutes to prepare out of which 15 minutes it was stuck at 99% for 14 minutes. How can a missile strike stick at 99%? Where they installing Windows or smth? It was ridiculous. Furthermore, a nuclear strike takes about 1 minute to launch, from the time the presidential order is given and is irreversible unless another presidential order is given. If there was really a war, the US would have been a smouldering pile of nuclear ashes. The real reason that thing took so long, was to give time to Salt to enter the bunker and proceed to kick Winter's ass and save the day. (btw she entered the bunker by destroying lead-reinforced concrete that was able to withstand multiple nuclear explosions).
As a result we have an awesome action movie ruined by ridiculous plot holes. You will probably enjoy the action, but don't get your hopes up in terms of plot. This is not the "female" Jason Bourne movie. This is a far inferior movie to any other spy film I've ever watched.