Unrealistic

Rating: 4/10 (19 September 2010)

Evelyn Salt (Angelina Jolie) is a very respected CIA agent, until one day a Russian spy comes in and accuses Salt of being a Russian spy, which passes the lie detector test as truthful. Knowing that she will soon be captured by the CIA, and that her husband may be in danger, Salt goes on the run to find her husband, who is not answering any calls. Ted Winter (Liev Schrieber) does not believe the test that she is lying, but some of the things Salt is doing begin to make him suspect her. And everyone begins to ask "Who is Salt?"
The acting in this film was good, not Oscar worthy or anything, but overall the acting by everyone was good. Angelina Jolie did good as usual, it was not a perfect performance and she has done much better before, but it was still good. I really liked Liev Schrieber in the film, I saw him first in Defiance, which I really enjoyed his performance in that one as well. Though it seems to me that Angeline Jolie has played characters like this many times before, and to me it is getting pretty old, and the movies are getting pretty bad. The last movie I really enjoyed from her was Changeling.
Now, pretty much everything else about the movie I thought was pretty terrible. The character development just was not good at all, by the end of the movie I honestly didn't care what happened, and I was not even sure who I wanted to win. The action scenes were unbelievably unrealistic, and that was not at an understatement. Instead of saying "Wow!" during the action sequences like you should during an action film, I found myself saying "What?" during the action scenes. And now we come to the plot. The acting really almost saved this film, because the plot was really, really bad. Unrealistic can be good sometimes, but in this case it is not. I also think some people might find this film boring, I know a lot of the people I was with seeing it did, and I really didn't find it too interesting. But that was good because it kept us from the action scenes.
Overall, Salt is an action movie that many people will like due to the cast, and pretty much everyone loves a good action film every once in awhile. But I think many will find Salt boring, and way too unrealistic to spend money on, so I am going to have to against Roger Ebert here, which I hate to do, and say that to be honest I just didn't really like this movie.