You can put lipstick on a pig

Rating: 2/10 (6 March 2011)

You can cast a beautiful woman in a bad movie, but it's still a bad movie. The 6.5 rating is a joke. I don't remember the last time I saw a movie this bad! I'm an avid movie watcher, and I'm usually willing to accept a film with a few flaws if it's at least enjoyable. But Salt has so many flaws, I couldn't even give it credit for being entertaining.
If you don't mind wasting an hour and forty minutes of your life just to watch Angelina Jolie punch, kick, and shoot people, be my guest. Because the fact that she looks incredible while she does it is literally the only redeeming factor for this movie. The "plot" is vague, confusing, and has holes the size of Milwaukee. I was seriously tempted to start tallying the clichés. As I've heard, this was supposed to be an action film. So you'd think the action would at least be up to par. But...no. 50 million gunshots and slow-mo grenades later, they decide to completely bend the rules of physics in a way that wasn't even cool enough to warrant it.
Not to mention the dialogue. Good lord, it was almost painful. The script sounds like it was written by a committee under a time crunch. Liev Schrieber, Jolie, and even Andre Braugher couldn't save it. They are all talented actors and you could tell they were doing the best they could with it, but it was still painful. I literally could not feel for the characters even if I tried, they were that shallow.
Throughout the entire film, I tried to give Salt the benefit of the doubt. I told myself: "Maybe you're being too harsh. There is always hope that it will come together at the end and surprise you." I got to the end. False hope. My advice: if you want to stare at Angelina Jolie for an hour (I mean really, who doesn't?), pick up a tabloid magazine instead of watching this--because it would have more substance than Salt. (Or, just pick a better Jolie flick. There are plenty of them)