Average spy thriller

Rating: 5/10 (20 August 2010)

Salt! First of a trilogy! Pepper coming out next, along with Mustard the following year. Average spy thriller and I could've told anyone that from watching the trailers. Bourne trilogy was always going to be a tough act to follow. And now with this, it's like they haven't even tried! Casino Royale and The Bourne series are probably the best spy movies to come out in the last decade. You'd be hard pressed to findanything as good as those movies. But now we have Salt, Angelina's newspy movie which promises be every bit as good as Bourne and then some. It just wasn't that great of a movie! Actually, to be honest with you the story wasn't that bad. What else? Some of the action scenes were quite impressive, but the fight scenes looked like the were choreographed by Vinnie Jones with a bit of Chuck Norris in Walker Texas Ranger. Hard to believe a 5ft 8', 140lb woman is able to beat up so many people with a couple of karate chops. Not realistic enough. Oh and the film was very predictable. Even with all the twists and turns I knew exactly what was going to happen and who was behind what. Acting wise, decent performances from the supporting cast. Chiwetel Ejiofor continues to climb the ladder with another notch on his CV. Liev Schreiber continues to be reliable and does a job and then there's Angelina, who actually does a good job as Salt. All in all, Salt is worth the release but at times plays more like a video game than an action thriller. If you're an Angelina fan go and see it and let herhynotise you with those blue eyes. If you aren't, this is another rainy day Saturday nighter on DVD.