Salt

There is a very fine, but definite line, dividing action movies like Salt or Mission Impossible into either fun movies - or dumb trash
Salt, unfortunately, crosses that line into dumb trash, while last month's The A-Team was a grin inducer. Salt has Angelina Jolie is in ass-kicking mode again after her 2008 flop Wanted. But if anything, her latest movie is worse than her previous action avatars in Mr & Mrs Smith or even Wanted. While Wanted was too much into the mystical assasins etc, atleast it was clear it wasnt based anywhere near reality and hence you didnt really care about factual or logical correctness. You only concentrated on the cool stunts and swerving bullets :)

Salt unfortunately, tried to make a realistic start with drab grey CIA headquarters, grey Washington mornings, a grizzled Russian defector - and even a Russian president called Medvedev ! But then it degenerates into a highly unrealistic story and some rather unbelievable description of security in the White House. The director has made a really pacy movie full of action & gunfights, but completely lost track of all logic. It should just have stuck to a unrealistic XXX kind of script - and focussed on enhancing Angelina Jolie's sex appeal, which frankly, is desperately missing in this movie. At just 100 min, the movie is so fast paced, that you do not get any time to notice Ms Angelina's appeal (or lack of it)

Salt may not be a complete waste though - the proponents of "dimaag closed" "timepass" movies have given it a thumbs up, so I assume for some people, it stayed well within the line of fun action movies. For me though, it was almost as if it was a Hollywood remake of Prince !