Critic’s Rating:*** 1/2
Cast: Angelina Jolie, Liev Shreiber, Chiwetel Ejiofor
Direction: Phillip Noyce
Genre: Action
Duration: 1 hour 40 minutes

Story: Evelyn Salt, a CIA agent is accused of being a Russian spy by a Russian defector on the eve of her wedding anniversary. Can she prove her innocence and save America from another plot to destroy it?

Movie Review: It’s Angelina Jolie’s race against time to prove she’s truly Hollywood’s Lara Croft (read alpha woman). So forget the script and sit back for an explosion of in-your-face action cuts where our stunt queen is hell bent on showcasing herself as truly `hero’ material — The One, amongst the guys — sexy pout and svelte figure, notwithstanding.

The film opens with Ms Jolie being tortured in a North Korean prison from where she is rescued and then breaks into a relentless spree that has a twofold purpose. First, it is supposed to answer the million dollar query:

Who is Salt — Russian mole or patriotic CIA agent? And second, it is intentioned to save America — and the world — from armageddon that threatens to come in the shape of a nuclear holocaust, after the American President is forced to press the button by big bad Russia.