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Aug 06, 2014ManMachine rated this title 2 out of 5 stars
Angelina Jolie as a dish-water blond!? Angelina Jolie as a frowzy brunette!? In my opinion, Angelina Jolie's Evelyn Salt character was a spice-girl who definitely needed more than just a dash of pepper to liven her up...... (Spoilers ahead!) I can't begin to tell you how riveting "Salt's" opening sequence was with Angelina Jolie (that's AJ, for short) being beaten to a literal pulp by the furious Korean soldiers, while all the time pathetically claiming "I'm not a spy! I'm not a spy!" You know, AJ seems to have been born to play these sorts of scenes of violence. But, following this one, isolated incident AJ's frail-looking character always retained the upper hand (unfortunately) as she repeatedly pulverized and annihilated more bad guys than you could possibly shake a stick at. This, of course, was one of "Salt's" major, messed-up downfalls. If equal numbers of women had been included in all of agent Salt's kick-ass, Matrix-style brawling then, yes, its story might have held some potential. But, as it clearly stood, this film's sexually-biased, anti-Russian, male-annihilating message simply sucked, and then it sucked some more. To have been fair to me as the viewer, I think that the tunnel-visioned screenwriters for this film could've at least tried to develop Evelyn Salt into something of an interesting and likable character. But no attempt was made in that direction, at all. And, hey, let's face it - As a typical CIA pencil-pusher, Evelyn Salt was just a little too resourceful (and too damage-proof) for my liking. A real killer-diller moment in "Salt" was when Ev, showing her amazing "superpower" potential and agility, managed to jump, from floor to floor, down the inside of an elevator shaft. (Phew! When the CIA trained its agents, they didn't kid around!) Filled to overflowing with asinine situations, fluky flaws, and plot-holes galore, this $110 million production (for which AJ was paid $20 million) was originally intended to be a Tom Cruise vehicle. (Like, can you frickin' imagine that!?)