Mrs Smith is Bourne for the Hunt
THE PLOT
Evelyn Salt (Angelina Jolie) is a CIA spy, freed on exchange 2 years ago from internment and torture in North Korea. When a KGB agent hands himself over to CIA custody Salt performs the interrogation during which she is told, in front of her colleagues, that she is in fact a sleeper assassin for the former Soviet Union. An assassin planted to kill the visiting Russian President, plunging the East and West into a second, and immediate, cold war. Fearful for her freedom, and her husband’s safety, Salt goes on the run. Will she clear her name? How long can she evade capture? Is she who they think she is?
THE REVIEW
These are all good questions. How we get to the answers is routine fare. The action is quick and certain, as we’ve come to expect from a modern spy-action flick, but nothing new. Our lead is on the run to clear her name and find some answers resulting in the usual running gun fight and car chase, donning a latex disguise along the way. Sound familiar? Ethan Hunt perhaps? In fact the title role is rumoured to have been originally offered to Tom Cruise (he did well to stay away from this, of all people).
There are twists and inevitable turns, and a smart viewer will see them coming, but that doesn’t detract from the enjoyment. The thing is, this is all sounds very negative, but this is not a bad film, in fact it hovers around good, but falls well short of great.
THE VERDICT
Not a must see but certainly not a must avoid. Salt is not well seasoned but won’t leave a sour taste.
TC
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