Review by The Washington Post

“Salt,” a ludicrous but somehow credible spy thriller starring Angelina Jolie, delivers a swift, super-charged kick in the pants. Jolie plays Evelyn Salt, who may or may not be a Russian mole in the CIA. When a defector blows her cover — or does he? — Salt loses the pumps and takes it on the move, leading her fellow agents (played by Liev Schreiber and Chiwetel Ejiofor) on a breakneck chase from Washington to New York and finally back to the White House, where she blows through squads of Secret Service with perfect aim and her own brand of pouting, unflagging verve.

In fact it’s Salt’s superhuman physical feats — building a bazooka with only a table leg and cleaning supplies, scaling the exterior of her apartment building with bare hands (and feet), driving a car by way of a Taser (you’ll see) — that make “Salt” such a puzzlement of a movie.

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Review by Review Express

Moviegoers who can ignore logic, suspend disbelief and hang on for the high-octane ride will enjoy this summer’s action thriller Salt. The film’s star, Angelina Jolie, continues to wow fans as a salty contender ready to go one step beyond to make her movies fun and full of adrenaline. We first see Evelyn Salt (Jolie) suffering a beating amid accusations of being a secret agent by a foreign government. She’s soon handed off in a prisoner switch and back home with her husband Mike (August Diehl, Inglourious Basterds).

Later, while Evelyn is getting ready to head off to work one morning, it’s made clear she’s a CIA agent. At work she’s immediately assigned by her boss Ted Winter (Liev Schreiber) to interview a possible Russian defector, Orlov (Daniel Olbrychski).

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Review by The Globe and Mail

Salt. Too much can kill you, and I’m not talking about the stuff you sprinkle on your corn. With an icy gaze, high kicks and an arsenal of nifty tricks, reigning action queen Angelina Jolie gets nasty as lovely, lithe and lethal CIA operative Evelyn Salt, who dispatches heavily armed guys like so many pesky flies in Salt, a brisk, breathless bender of spy-versus-spy fluff geared for maximum multiplex action and gunning for a sequel.

This is a movie with a massive Cold War hangover. Its premise – that Russian sleeper spies have been blending in with American citizens for years just waiting to be activated and execute evil plans – might have seemed preposterously old school were it not for the recent U.S.-Russia spy swap in Vienna.

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