Pepper.

Rating: 3/10 (8 August 2015)

Salt (2010): Dir: Phillip Noyce / Cast: Angelina Jolie, Liev Schreiber, Chiwetel Ejiofor, August Diehl, Daniel Olbrychski: The ads ask who is Salt? That is a question that switches throughout the film. Angelina Jolie plays Evelyn Salt who is accused of being a Russian spy and is on the run to find her missing husband. It would be great to assume that he realized how shitty this film is and just left the set but unfortunately he is not that lucky. Director Phillip Noyce seems to borrow much from The Fugitive and Mission: Impossible but he is still applying his skill to low grade films in the tradition of earlier junk such as The Bone Collector and The Saint. Jolie pulls her punches and more doing stunts that would kill a normal person. Nonetheless she seems comfortable doing action and her character's mystery is one of the few pluses to this otherwise waste of time. Supporting roles are a real issues leaving Jolie to pretty much carry the film. Liev Schreiber as her CIA friend is too predictable and his position in the third act should surprise no one. Chiwetel Ejiofor was terrific in Dirty Pretty Things but her he is given little to do other than make harsh observations about Salt. August Diehl is a total waste as Salt's husband. He appears briefly in the opening then is seen mainly in flashbacks before viewers are treated to an unnecessary write off that perhaps would not have occurred if the genders were switched. Pointless action farce with grand scale production and explosive action sequences but without the care we give for The Fugitive. Perhaps they will make a sequel called Pepper. Score: 3 ½ / 10