Salt

Salt stars Angelina Jolie in a role originally intended for Tom Cruise, and is pretty much a ninety minute chase scene. Jolie plays a CIA agent who one day is told that she is actually a Russian sleeper agent sent to the US to assassinate the Russian president. This of course throws her life into a tizzy, and she runs off to save her husband* and clear her name with the entire US intelligence apparatus chasing her.

* Quick tangent here - the actor playing her husband is one of the creepier looking guys I've ever seen. Like he should be driving a paneled van around the valley sort of creepy. Its so bad that it makes you question why Jolie would bother risking herself to save him. But I digress.

Anyway Jolie is convincing as a female Jason Bourne, and the action is generally well framed (inasmuch that the director rarely relies on the nausea inducing greengrass style school of shooting). Still the film's plot has so many holes and logical inconsistencies that you're actually questioning it as you're watching. I don't expect these type of films to be realistic per se, but they at least need to be consistent within the parameters of the film. Had the characters behaved at all rationally the film would have been a half an hour shorter (at least) and Jolie's character wouldn't have to go off at the end as a lone wolf (spoiler) to set up a really heavy handed and unnecessary sequel opportunity.

Anyway its not horrible, but the fact that I spent the last fifteen minutes questioning why any of this was necessary means it difficult to call it any more than passable.