Watan ka khaaya NAMAK toh NAMAK HALAL bano- Arjun Singh walad Bhim Singh walad Dashrath Singh
Phillip Noyce delivers yet another Spy Thriller after some of his successful spy thrillers like Patriot Games, Clear and Present Danger, The Bone Collector, The Saint. Though the director has incorporated good twists and turns to the plot, the storyline is very familiar and audience familiar to spy thriller genre will not be thrilled. By replacing Tom Cruise (who dropped out quoting that he had already done movies with this kind of storyline) with a hottie like Angelina Jolie, I was expecting some “thrilling scenes” like his previous movie “Sliver” starring Sharon Stone. But the food tasted bland even with so much of SALT.
The movie kicks off on a promising note with Evelyn Salt (Angelina Jolie), a CIA agent being framed as a Russian Spy. Then as she is on the run, the story keeps you guessing whether Salt is a Russian spy or a CIA agent. The pace of the movie gets very slow and in the end it’s a no brainer to answer the question – “Who is Salt?”. Moving away from Computer Graphics, Angelina has done all the stunts on her own including jumping from a flyover onto a speeding truck and then onto a speeding tank and then jumping onto the road to speed away on a bike or jump from a moving train without getting injured. This was the only thrilling moment in the movie. The movie ends with Jolie escaping from CIA suggesting a sequel to the movie. Familiar plot and slow pace of the story and very few commendable action sequences does not qualify SALT to be compared to Bond, Mission Impossible or the Bourne series.
Watch it only if you like to watch Angelina Jolie kick some ass. If you are a big fan of her svelte figure, I suggest you watch her other thrillers like “Taking Lives”, “Original Sin” or wait for the 2010 release “The Tourist” (with Johnny Depp)
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