Salt

There is an interesting thriller to be based on the latest developments in Russian espionage, but Salt , which reworks old cold war plots from The Manchurian Candidate , Telefon and No Way Out , isn't it. In this lacklustre movie, Angelina Jolie plays the brilliant CIA operative Evelyn Salt, who goes on the run after being denounced by a Russian defector as a long-time mole planted in the US as a child. The violence is relentless, the chases are ludicrous (thrice Salt escapes by jumping from one speeding truck to another on the Washington freeway) and the plotting preposterous.