Saw this movie today and it was bad. They desperately wanted to Angelina Jolie to be Jack Bauer in this one but she just never pulled it off. Instead of looking badass she just looks tired, dejected and dare I say it...old. The story is ludicrous and makes no sense if you think about it for more than a few seconds (see below), the action is below average, and PG-13 at that. It seems like Jolie always manages to conveniently "knocks out" the good guys instead of having to actually kill them, which makes the CIA, the Secret Service and the police all look like idiots. Very very underwhelming movie and judging from how it ended they were actually hoping to make a franchise out of this. Salt would be 10x better if they just get Kiefer Sutherland to play the lead and call it Bauer.
SPOILER BELOW!!
So the Russians were worried that Jolie might have gone native and not carry out her mission so they sent in some guy to blow her cover and force her to act. This makes zero sense. If she has not gone native why would they risk upsetting her carefully laid plan to kill the Russian President and possibly getting her arrested? Did they just assume that she would be able to just bust out of a building full of CIA operatives with no prior preparation? How the hell did she manage to get out of the interrogation room anyway since we never saw it? Why not just kidnap her husband and blackmail her into doing it? They've ALREADY kidnapped him but they didn't even bother to tell her they have him until the mission was already completed, so what was the point? Also they didn't tell her what the second phase of the mission was (assassinate the US President) or even give her any details at all until she was at the White House already. So yes, apparently these guys expected her to just make up a plan to kill the US President on the spot. They waited decades for their plan to come to fruition and they staked it all on their operative's improv ability. Idiots.
SPOILER BELOW!!
So the Russians were worried that Jolie might have gone native and not carry out her mission so they sent in some guy to blow her cover and force her to act. This makes zero sense. If she has not gone native why would they risk upsetting her carefully laid plan to kill the Russian President and possibly getting her arrested? Did they just assume that she would be able to just bust out of a building full of CIA operatives with no prior preparation? How the hell did she manage to get out of the interrogation room anyway since we never saw it? Why not just kidnap her husband and blackmail her into doing it? They've ALREADY kidnapped him but they didn't even bother to tell her they have him until the mission was already completed, so what was the point? Also they didn't tell her what the second phase of the mission was (assassinate the US President) or even give her any details at all until she was at the White House already. So yes, apparently these guys expected her to just make up a plan to kill the US President on the spot. They waited decades for their plan to come to fruition and they staked it all on their operative's improv ability. Idiots.
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