NAMED after the CIA operative played by Jolie, Salt is a thinly-veiled attempt at making a Bourne-esque franchise, but rather than be genuinely gripping, the plot starts slow, and stays predictable.
At CIA HQ, in Washington, Evelyn Salt (Angelina Jolie) is set to leave for the day, when she and her boss Winter (Liev Schreiber) are called to interrogate Russian defector Orlov (Daniel Olbrychski) who accuses Salt of being part of a cell of highly-trained Russian sleeper spies.
Salt, he claims, will kill the Russian President at the American vice president’s funeral in New York. Salt tells her boss: "I’m not a goddamn Russian spy", before blasting her way out of the building and jumping from truck to truck in a chase.
While crowds mass before the vice-president’s funeral, Salt slips into the church vault to carry out the assassination of the Russian president.
But is she really a sleeper spy?
