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I can't say if this nicely crafted nonsense will sell as a franchise, but I know that I miss the unpretentiousness of the Bourne movies.
Salt is a senseless blast.
Salt, a ludicrous but somehow credible spy thriller starring Angelina Jolie, delivers a swift, super-charged kick in the pants.
The audience's relationship to Jolie as an off-screen superhero -- a bona-fide, old-school movie star -- makes her ludicrously competent character seem contiguous with her real-life persona.
This is a movie with a massive Cold War hangover.
Salt is a smart, fast, breathless blast of a spy flick that emulates the Bourne films in all the right ways.
Jolie one-ups Bruce Willis in DIE HARD, being chased down, climbing walls, and blowing up sh*t not only without shoes but also without underpants.
A somewhat predictable genre thriller that asks the audience to accept its flawed premise and revel in the ensuing violence.
It thinks it's The Bourne Identity even though it actually has more in common with Gotcha! Not that there's anything wrong with Gotcha!
There are moments of well-crafted thrills in Salt and Jolie reliably carries them off, but the desire of the filmmakers to put off thinking about the finale until they absolutely had to produces a hollow lack of satisfaction.
Salt doesn't spring many surprises, but settling for smartly staged setpieces over twists and turns in an action movie sounds like a square deal.
You have to take it on face value to find the entertainment -- and there's plenty to enjoy here thanks to Jolie.
Salt's urgency drains as it goes ... Just enjoy watching Jolie roll through her stunts, then -- a good time can possibly still be had by all.
The reason Salt succeeds is because it believes in its lunacy and goes for it in a frank, but fabulous way.
Salt could have been a pretty good brain-dead summer popcorn thriller, but director Phillip Noyce and star Angelina Jolie lend it too much weight without providing any depth.
Despite its sloppy, often outlandish, story, and obvious twists, the film does work, if only as an enjoyably intense, and surprisingly bleak, B-movie that rarely lets up once it gets going.
... director Phillip Noyce drives the film at a breakneck pace to keep the audience from noticing the convenient coincidences and oversights. It's a rush for all that...
"Salt" and "silly" both begin with a "S." That couldn't be a coincidence, right? Paul Chambers, CNN.
Casting a lithe Jolie as the film's protagonist stops Salt from being a Bourne knock-off or a Mission: Impossible reboot and gives the tired espionage genre a novel twist.
I think it's about time I stopped giving [Angelina Jolie] the benefit of the doubt
full review at Movies for the Masses
What's most impressive about Salt (aside from Jolie's committed performance) is the film's relentless pace. I can't remember the last action film so devoted to being all action, all the time. Frankly, it's a little exhausting.
An aesthetically pleasing machine, with fine little witty touches.
Ovaj film moe se preporučiti kao zabava jedino gledateljima koji su pri tome spremni u potpunosti isključiti vie funkcije svog mozga
Salt is a good bet for 100 minutes of fun but it doesn't have the spark, originality or true thrills of something like Enemy Of The State or the Bourne series.
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