Implausibilities to a Fault

Rating: 5/10 (29 August 2010)

More or less an Angelina Jolie vehicle, "Salt" is a mild disappointment as the action and combat scenes break the barrier of plausibility. I'm willing to throw out some logic, but Jolie as a bomb technician, hand-to-hand killer, and (spoiler) apparently also a flying-squirrel down an elevator shaft stretches any plausibility. The action is more-or-less high paced, but needs to be much smarter. A climactic fight becomes laughable with a supposed computer program controlling a nuclear arsenal taking a full 15 min to authorize is clunky and dodgy. We hear an awful female voice counting down, cheesy beyond belief, as bad as movies decades ago. One of the bright spots of the movie is the support performance by Chiwetel Ejiofor bringing some a solid grounding for a movie needing it. Mixed review at best.