CIA agent Evelyn Salt is accused of being a Soviet spy.
Hollywood is so male centered that to give Angelina Jolie her first action role in two years they had to rewrite a movie originally intended as a Tom Cruise vehicle. There is really a dearth of original ideas up there because with a male lead Salt is clearly a poor man version of Bourne while with a female lead at least it becomes a little bit more interesting.
The plot starts in an intriguing way with a lot of questions about the true allegiance of our main lead but it answer those questions too soon leaving us with the same old same old routine of “who need a sensible plan and an armed force when we have a superspy that can do everything by herself”. I must add that I really hope that the original Kurt Wimmer, known for Equilibrium and Ultraviolet both better than this, plot made any sense because the rewritten for Angelina one is totally insane. There are plot holes so big that entire nuclear missiles literally fly into them!
On the other hand the action beats are nice and imaginative. The car chase for once is original and fun to watch and, generally speaking, all the action scenes are clear and easy to follow which is very good and very rare nowadays.
Angelina Jolie as always excels in this kind of roles. There is something about her, an intensity, that goes so well with ass kicking. Liev Schreiber is surprisingly good in a very limited part.
In the end this is a good popcorn movie.
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