Too many WTF moments

Rating: 4/10 (19 March 2013)

I know all this stuff about having to suspend disbelief in an action thriller, but I already made that compromise by accepting that someone as distinctively beautiful as Jolie could be a spy. No amount of disguising could ever mask those lips.
So to then be assaulted by numerous examples of death defying leaps and jumps and fights and . . . oh the list goes on. We ended up laughing at each unbelievable piece of action - and when you start laughing then it is no longer an action thriller. In fact learning that Tom Cruise was originally slated to play a male version of Salt, but pulled out, makes me think he realised that it was too over the top to be taken seriously. After all he has made Knight and Day which is full of its own unbelievable action scenes, but is done in a tongue in cheek way so that the audience doesn't throw their hands up in disbelief.
Overall Salt has been done before with Russian sleepers infiltrating Western society to be awoken to redress the power balance Russia's way (No Way Out immediately springs to mind) and the stunts have been done before. And even having a female agent has been done before - A Long Kiss Goodnight.
One seen, immediately forgotten and never re-seen.