Salt ****

loved it.

"Russian sleeper agents plot of assassinate various figures, but what side does Salt fight for?"


O loved it, I really did. Salt's heroine is interesting, complicated and for want of a better word "awesome". The storyline in hind sight is pre-posterous, but whilst watching, you're swept up in the interweaving sex appeal of the two leads, the meandering storyline and the high octane action sequences.

Jolie as always is a solid and deep seeded lead, and with the support of Liev Schreiber who plays to his "tough hiding a secret guy" keep the film from falling where lesser actors may have let it. Giving Jolie the lead over a man was the right idea, she makes an hero that Bruce Willis and Tom Cruise wouldn't have been able to make. Vulnerable, but deadly and secretive may have been a stretch for there overtly masculine persona's. The direction is nothing you haven't seen before in the Bourne trilogy or other slick spy flicks, but the pace is relentless and won't ever have you yawning at any point.

It may well be popcorn fodder for most and there may be some kind of misinterpretions of certain countries, but it is a work of fiction, forgetting reality and getting into the story will help with enjoyment of this film.

By no means the perfect action caper, however one of the best I've seen since The Dark Knight. Jolie is fantastic and I hope the franchise grows in popularity as it is "The Best" female action vehicle I've seen.