Eye Candy #436 - "Salt"

Salt:  A little action thriller that hearkens back to the good ol’ days (read as “The 1980’s”), where there was a Soviet sleeper agent in every suburb and behind every picket fence.  Angelina Jolie is Evelyn Salt who, during one eventful interrogation with a Russian defector, is exposed as a Russian double agent planted in the United States as a child as part of a Soviet initiative to undermine the United States.  She then goes on the lam to clear her name…or does she?  One big chase picture, with various government agents chasing Salt all over New York City, Washington DC, and other locales, with Jolie whooping a lot of butt and jumping from credulity-stretching action set piece to credulity-stretching action set piece (and changing her hairstyle all the while).   Sure, there is nothing new here (it reminded me of “No Way Out”), but it’s entertaining enough for what it is.  I like some of the work of director Philip Noyce (some of it‘s crap), and while this isn’t as good as “The Quiet American”, it’s certainly summer popcorn flick appropriate.  Woodchuck sez, “Fun time-waster.”