They thought Bourne with a vagina would make a difference (minor spoiler alert)

Rating: 5/10 (11 August 2010)

The truth is that there is a difference: clearly a big one. The Jason Bourne movies are just incomparable. Salt looked like some unfinished film. The basic story it's over-used and the only thing they added was another soap-opera twist after the relevant one. The clicheic storyline, the straight-forward dialogue, the obvious twists and the stereotypical development of the characters contributed all to the expected "disappointing" movie directed by Phillip Noyce. What's wrong with the story is that it takes all the basic ideas from great spy-movies like Jason Bourne especially and adds some basic new-age nonsense. The main character is Evelyn Salt (Angelina Jolie), some ex-Russian spy who along the road of her "career" decided to change parties and began to work in favor for (of course, as always) United States without them knowing about her past. The stereotypes are so vivid that it's almost impossible not to see them. The russians, again, are made to look like cruel and revengeful terrorists while the Americans are all for peace and fight for our freedom. This is the 21st century's biggest bullsh*t. Skipping away this political non-sense and getting back to the movie, one day some Russian "ex-spy" decides to reveal Salt's true identity to the C.I.A. From this point on the madness begins and each minute passes by things get worse. The action sequences are ridiculous for a "skinny" woman like Angelina Jolie is (and I'm sorry to say it but her days from Gia and Original Sin are long gone). I mean who could believe she would survive from all the falls and tortures and fights she goes through? It's just hilarious. The movie should have ended somewhere in like the first 20 minutes but no, Salt was somewhere close to Superman. It was painful to watch at times because everything was so unrealistic (remember the elevator scene? laughing my ass off).
Besides the plot holes and bad dialogue, besides the stupid action sequences and terrible choreography the acting didn't helped the movie at all. Angelina Jolie was far from her older days, all we see is her sharing punches, shooting guns randomly, fight 3 C.I.A. agents at one time and shed some tears to make the audience probably feel some compassion towards the main character but what Noyce didn't imagined were the laughs in the theaters. Liev Schreiber, the guy from X-Men Origins: Wolverine and Repo Men played again the expected villain. I mean, was it that hard to not realize that by the middle of the movie? Other than the storyline and the average acting, the execution was also poorly done. What was with that chaotic camera-work in each chase sequence? Some shots were terrible and the editing was so by the book: no improvisation and no guts. The soundtrack was also off the tone of the movie. It has some key-notes from the Terminator's classic soundtrack which to me was laughable. Only two scenes were nice accompanied by music but everything else was cheap imitation.
The ending of the movie leaves room for a sequel but I PRAY that they would decide to not make any since it didn't succeed at the box-office. And what about a couple of scenes that were in the trailer but were cut from the actual movie? Where was Angelina's leg in that dress? That's what I want to know? I paid money to see that also so... I left not 2x but 3x disappointed.
Salt promotes itself as a serious spy-action movie close to Jason Bourne as far as the context but it forgets to deliver exactly the necessary. It's a good film to "waste-some-time" for the end of a horrific working week but other than that it's definitely nothing worthy of paying money for. You could easily skip it even if you're an Angelina Jolie fan.