I was expecting Salt to be a fun dumb action flick. It turns out, two out of three in this case isn't so good. Angelina Jolie is a CIA agent on the run, there's all the description you need. Liev Schreiber and Chiwetel Ejiofor, both of who I like a lot, are chasing her. Andre Braugher has what I think might be his smallest role ever.
The action scenes were ok, you could follow what was going on and it was somewhat interesting and while clearly beyond the bounds of reality, not too far beyond the bounds of movie fights and stunts. It was also quite dumb. I mean really dumb. My favorite example is from late in the film and isn't too much of a spoiler. She was trying to get into a fortified bunker with thick concrete walls. She couldn't get through the door or bulletproof glass windows (yes, windows on a bunker), so she decided to go through the concrete wall to get at the door control on the inside. So she knocked on the concrete wall as if looking for a stud to hang a picture on.
I can see the creators thinking this film was clever with a few twists and stuff, but they really don't work. It came off like a bad season of 24 where the plots by the bad guys were just ridiculous. Actually they weren't really plots, they were just missions given literally at the last minute and completely improvised. Which is exactly what you'd do with sleeper agents put in place for decades.
Avoid.
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