Hokum

Rating: 6/10 (25 August 2010)

Evelyn Salt (Angelina Jolie) is a CIA agent. We find out early on that she may be a double agent, when she is identified as such by Russian agent Orlov. But might she be a triple agent? It seems her immediate boss Winter (Liev Schreiber) is on her side, but the Internal Affairs-type bloke Peabody (Chiwetel Ejiofor) has it in for her, so she is fighting pursuit from her own people as she goes on the run.
This espionage nonsense has a plot which is not so much incoherent as improbable, and is a bit too frantic for its own good - the large part of its running length is devoted to chases. The story has a couple of beats which weren't quite what I expected - welcome enough,but they didn't make it any more believable. Though the action sequences are mostly fun, there was stuff which was, frankly, ludicrous (the lift shaft descent springs to mind), and the whole thing came over as rather dour.
This film passed the time adequately, but did no more than that.