Director Phillip Noyce... keeps things moving with an engaging lead, well-timed action sequences, smart dialogue and characters whose motivations are well defined.

| Dec 30, 2020

In the great tradition of summer popcorn hits, Angelina Jolie's action-spy thriller Salt is stupid but fun.

| Feb 7, 2018

Though the film and the script may have flaws, Jolie has none.

| Dec 27, 2010

Can an action film have too much action? It sounds unlikely, like a cheese being too cheesy, but here's Salt to show us different.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 26, 2010

It's pacy, smart, subversive and knocked out with such verve and attack that you're not in the least bit bothered by how far-fetched it all is.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 20, 2010

By no means a classic, but nonetheless a job well done.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 20, 2010

The plot of Phillip Noyce's spy thriller is continually and unutterably absurd, yet for the first hour, when Salt goes on the run from the Agency, packs a fair few thrills.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 20, 2010

There's still a lot to enjoy in Jolie's performance, and in the undercurrents of ambiguity in Salt, the questions of identity that repeatedly surface in the film.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 19, 2010

Just one bombastically soundtracked set of crashes and bangs after another.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Aug 19, 2010

Noyce marshals the crunches and bangs well, and it zips along at a pace sufficient enough to keep the paranoia alive.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 19, 2010

The focus here is less on creating a credible set of characters and motives than on manufacturing an excuse to have Jolie leapfrog between high-speed lorries.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 19, 2010

The film is fluff, nonsense and artful tomfoolery, all at the speed of sound.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 19, 2010

She's a very good character trapped in a quite good movie.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 19, 2010

It is just a grand ride while you're there.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 18, 2010

The real point is to give Jolie ample opportunity to go Bonding about, which she does with great verve. It's impossible to imagine any other female star in Hollywood bringing such ferocious conviction to the task.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 18, 2010

Salt's centerpieces are assuredly helmed but lacking in imagination

| Original Score: C+ | Aug 11, 2010

Salt is less fun than it sounds.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 30, 2010

I can't say if this nicely crafted nonsense will sell as a franchise, but I know that I miss the unpretentiousness of the Bourne movies.

| Jul 26, 2010

Salt is a senseless blast.

| Jul 26, 2010

Salt, a ludicrous but somehow credible spy thriller starring Angelina Jolie, delivers a swift, super-charged kick in the pants.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 23, 2010