Nice action scenes, but the plot is cringeworthy: the cold war is over and dead.

Rating: 6/10 (15 August 2010)

While the film had great action scenes, and an interesting premise (Angelina Jolie as badass CIA agent) -- the problem is that the entire plot and story was written for a John McCain and Sarah Palin America, one where the continued escalation of tension between the US and Russia takes place.
But since the NATO missile shield project has been scaled back, and since Obama and Medvedev & Putin have warmed up, and since the realization that the US and Russia are fighting on two fronts of the same war..... and oh yeah, the US and Russia just nonchalantly exchanged 12 Russian sleeper spies for a few US spies.... the entire premise of the movie's antagonists makes no sense.
Unfortunately, the Cold War is over. And very dead.
In other words, the plot premise is cringeworthy. The action scenes are pretty much the only redeeming factor, but it's still pretty hard to ignore the fact that all the bad guys are comical in either motivation or execution.