Plot: Evelyn Salt (Angelina Jolie) is a CIA agent who is accused by a Russian informant of being a Russian agent on a mission to kill the Russian President. Once accused she runs, and keeps running right to the end of the movie. There are several twists in the plot to keep interest up.
Review: I enjoyed Salt perhaps because I did not expect much. This was fast paced fun that I liked. Stop thinking that it could never really happen.
The first third of the movie where Salt is running from the CIA is enjoyable and solid, and the middle part ending with a big explosion is very clever -- less fun but smart. The third part with the President is the weakest. People who demand realism from action-adventure movies should stay home. This is summer-time super-heroine action where a skinny girl's kicks and karate chops immobilize soldiers twice Salt's size, and no bad guy can shoot a gun straight.
There is a point in this movie where you realize, she must be a bad guy since it looks like she is killing all the good guys. Is she a double-agent? Is she a triple-agent?
Cast: Angelina Jolie, Lev Schrieber
Directed by: Phillip Noyce
Rating: 3.0- flasks I liked it. It is mindless entertainment, but I still liked it. So what if it could't really happen? Superman can't really fly, either.
More: The Russian spy affair in Washington seems eerily like Salt. Who could have predicted real Russian deep cover agents would be discovered right before this film is released.
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