Salt on DVD now

Evelyn Salt (Jolie) is a CIA agent whose life changes when one day a Russian defector Orlov (Olbrychski) walks into her CIA offices and apparently reveals that she is in fact a sleeper spy who’s mission is to kill the Russian President. Does her boss Ted (Schreiber) believe Orlov?, does Salt know that she is a sleeper agent or as she goes on the run is this because her cover is blown or is it just out of concern for her husbands fate?

So Jolie takes on another ‘action’ role with the underlying premise of is she or isn’t she a Russian spy trying to bring down the USA. Everything, excuse the pun, needs to be taken with a pinch of ……. as its somewhat light on story but heavy on action and if you can get over the fact that Jolie doesn’t look like she can jump down a kerbside without breaking her leg, let alone leap from bridges onto lorries etc I guess you are half way sold on the central idea of the film. Jolie has perfected her ‘hitting and kicking’ snarl which is on show through out the film but you overall get the feeling that this for all of the woefully underused talented cast is acting by numbers. A string of action sequences held together by flimsy script full of holes.  I guess as popcorn movies go it isn’t terrible, its just also not that good.

Director: Phillip Noyce 

Cast:
Angelina Jolie -                   Evelyn Salt

Live Schreiber                    Ted Winter

Chiwetel Ejiofor                  Peabody

Daniel Olbrychski               Orlov