Salt, the new action thriller starring Angelina Jolie, is action packed from beginning to end. Even so, it’s not as poor as I thought it would. In fact, it was actually not that bad, just not that great of a film either.
Containing entertainment that is worthy enough, film’s protagonist is Evelyn Salt (Angelina Jolie), who works for the CIA and is married to German arachnologist Michael Krause (August Diehl), who campaigned endlessly for her release from a North Korean prison. While interrogating a Russian defect, Orlov, he names her as a Russian agent who will kill the Russian president. He also includes that Russia has been sending in sleeper agents acting as moles in the United States. Salt runs away from the CIA in a series of chase and action sequences, and then we discover the truth: she actually is a Russian agent and has been working with Orlov, and is working to bring the United States to its knees.
I liked Salt’s premise. Unfortunately, that is nearly overwhelmed by endless action and fight scenes and sequences, and I felt as though I was watching essentially one big, long chase scene.
The movie has got enough plot twists to keep it afloat. Under the direction of Phillip Noyce, who also directed the box-office hit Clear and Present Danger, Salt also stars Liev Schreiber as CIA agent Ted Winter (who, in a plot twist, ends up being another Russian sleeper agent).
The action sequences are for the most part well crafted enough but the truth is that makes the movie only more exhausting. I wished that the movie could have cut down considerably there, with Jolie doing near impossible stunts and single handingly taking out three or four CIA agents at a time!
Salt was for sure not the movie blockbuster of the summer. This is a pic that you might want to go pay a few dollars for to see, but beyond that it’s a standard issue action flick.
***/5
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