Salt Means Action

Rating: 5/10 (17 May 2011)

It is interesting that Angelina Jolie who is about as attractive as a woman can be is totally an action hero in this one. They aim here is to make her a female James Bond. While the action is no doubt at 007 level, when you cut out the sex part of Bond you lose something. I mean, physically it is more possible for a woman to do bedroom exercises than it is the male.
Instead we get Evelyn Salt whose ready to kill and watch her husband be killed, all for her own purpose or cause. The movie keeps you guessing where salt is going to wind up.
It is well filmed with a reduction of blue screens because Jolie is not afraid of heights and is more than willing to dangle 12 stories up. This is great and gives the movie more of a real action look. But darn it, I'd want to see some guys score and female Bond (Salt) and that just isn't addressed at all.
Salt's name is named after the Nixon/Carter etc Missile treaties with Russia which this movie does have a cold war type of theme that even brings the Middle East into it. The question is will the sequels be Salt 2, Salt 3 etc, or are there going to be any sequels?