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Alynda Wheat, People: VERY GOOD (cg) "...what a difference Jolie makes, convincingly demolishing her adversaries and turning the notion of the sex-kitten Bond girl in to an anachronism." (Read the full review...) 194 words, 07/22/10 Richard Corliss, Time: VERY GOOD "A. Jo takes a role originally written for Tom Cruise -- he chose to make the jokier 'Knight and Day' instead -- and manages to ratchet up the testosterone level." (Read the full review...) 960 words, 07/23/10 Christy Lemire, Associated Press: MODERATE (cg) "...any attempts to confuse us about our heroine's true nature -- and there are many -- feel like an elaborate sham. Under the direction of Phillip Noyce, though, at least it's a well-made sham." (Read the full review...) 844 words, 07/22/10 Thelma Adams, Us Weekly: VERY GOOD (cg) "Angelina Jolie is one deadly weapon in this breathless political thriller... resembles the kind of impossible-to-kill heroes that Harrison Ford played more than a decade ago..." (Read the full review...) 133 words, 07/22/10 Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: VERY GOOD (cg) "The movie is fun, dammit.... has enough high-octane reversals to keep you guessing right to the end. Even if you don't entirely buy any of them." (Read the full review...) 747 words, 07/23/10 Michael Phillips, A.O. Scott, At the Movies: GOOD (cg) Michael Phillips: "See it." A.O. Scott: "See it." (Watch the full review...) 247 seconds, 07/24/10 Peter Travers, Rolling Stone: VERY GOOD (cg) "Noyce, a skilled architect of action, can stage a stunt with the best of them. And Jolie is up for the challenge.... Whether you buy it or not, hang on for the ride. It's a twister." (Read the full review...) 495 words, 07/23/10 Claudia Puig, USA Today: MODERATE (cg) "The film has its tense moments, but instead of dazzle, there's a workmanlike quality to the action sequences. And the dialogue is hampered by a clichéd script." (Read the full review...) 388 words, 07/23/10 Roger Ebert, RogerEbert.com: OUTSTANDING (cg) "Now HERE's what I mean by an action movie. 'Salt' is a damn fine thriller. It does all the things I can't stand in bad movies, and does them in a good one." (Read the full review...) 826 words, 07/22/10 James Berardinelli, Reel Views: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...contains plenty of action... But the plot isn't strong enough to withstand the assault on the wall of suspension of disbelief by a gamut of increasingly preposterous stunts." (Read the full review...) 823 words, 07/21/10
A.O. Scott, New York Times: GOOD "Mr. Wimmer has constructed a puzzle just complicated enough to keep you alert while Mr. Noyce, a protean Australian craftsman throws the pieces in the air and watches them collide, explode and crash to the ground." (Read the full review...) 921 words, 07/23/10 Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News: EXCELLENT (cg) "...fast-moving, exciting and contains more twists than a tunnel under Checkpoint Charlie.... director Philip Noyce, working from a taut script by Kurt Wimmer, makes the retro thrills feel new." (Read the full review...) 380 words, 07/23/10 Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: GOOD "...who goes to summer action movies for cast-iron logic anyway? Or for plausible characters, for that matter?" (Read the full review...) 848 words, 07/23/10 Kyle Smith, New York Post: WEAK (cg) "Some of the cheesiest '80s action movies were more fun than this one because their heroes were trained in a technique alien to Salt: a sense of humor." (Read the full review...) 923 words, 07/23/10 Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: VERY GOOD (cg) "It isn't trying to reinvent anyone's wheel.... something to go with the popcorn. I liked it. It knows what it's doing." (Read the full review...) 652 words, 07/23/10 Rafer Guzman, New York Newsday: MODERATE (cg) "...feels like a creaky relic from the Reagan-Gorbachev 1980s." (Read the full review...) 309 words, 07/23/10 David Edelstein, New York Magazine: VERY GOOD "...a senseless blast.... brisk, efficient, forward-ho even when the plot does loop-de-loops, fluid even when the action is smash-and-bash." (Read the full review...) 474 words, 07/26/10 Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: OUTSTANDING (cg) "Now HERE's what I mean by an action movie. 'Salt' is a damn fine thriller. It does all the things I can't stand in bad movies, and does them in a good one." (Read the full review...) 826 words, 07/22/10 Karina Longworth, Village Voice/LA Weekly: GOOD "...closer to product than art. Highly satisfying, often exhilarating, refreshingly unpretentious product." (Read the full review...) 781 words, 07/21/10 Linda Barnard, Toronto Star: VERY GOOD (cg) "...we want action, and as Agent Salt, Jolie delivers.... Plot failings aside, hot damn, she's good with a gun and even better with her fists." (Read the full review...) 722 words, 07/23/10 Jennie Punter, Toronto Globe & Mail: MODERATE (cg) "...the movie stays one step ahead of the audience... But the story itself never provides a level of intrigue..." (Read the full review...) 594 words, 07/23/10 Josep Parera, La Opinion: VERY GOOD (cg) "De lo que Salt no carece es de ese elemento que tanta falta hace cuando el público se siente frente a una pantalla: entretenimiento." (Read the full review...) 499 words, 07/23/10 Susan G. Cole, Toronto Now: WEAK (cg) "The movie has zero texture. It unfolds in a monotonous series of explosions and car chases..." (Read the full review...) 293 words, 07/22/10
Ann Hornaday, Washington Post: VERY GOOD (cg) "It's popcorn pulp that collided -- at 100 mph, natch -- with a far more sober and crafty grown-up movie." (Read the full review...) 383 words, 07/23/10 Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "Commendably swift and progressively inane... Jolie's action vehicle is just that - an action vehicle, moving fast but thinking slow." (Read the full review...) 593 words, 07/23/10 Mick LaSalle, Houston Chronicle/San Francisco Chronicle: VERY GOOD (cg) "The action scenes are imaginative and elaborate without seeming fake. Nothing is belabored, and the stakes never stop escalating." (Read the full review...) 619 words, 07/23/10 Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: MODERATE (cg) "...as good an actress as the Oscar-winning Jolie is, as much experience as she has in action roles playing women 'with particular skills,' I never really bought her in the part..." (Read the full review...) 601 words, 07/23/10 Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star-Tribune: WEAK (cg) "...despite enough hand-to-hand combat to glut an MMA marathon, this movie is about as much fun as getting slugged in the head." (Read the full review...) 387 words, 07/23/10 Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic: MODERATE (cg) "...if this is the best the CIA, the Secret Service, the NYPD and whatever other government agency tasked with finding bad guys can do, we're in worse trouble than we thought." (Read the full review...) 604 words, 07/23/10 Chris Vognar, Dallas Morning News: EXCELLENT (cg) "...a meat-and-potatoes espionage yarn that passes by quickly enough and meets the requirement of making us try to guess: Who is Salt?" (Read the full review...) 642 words, 07/23/10 Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: MODERATE (cg) "...the movie is part 'The Fugitive.' It's also part 'Bourne Identity' and part dutiful airport thriller.... 'Salt' is a lesser relative." (Read the full review...) 629 words, 07/23/10 Clint O'Connor, Cleveland Plain-Dealer: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...some of the action moments offer good jolts, but 'Salt' suffers from kind of a big problem: the plot." (Read the full review...) 397 words, 07/23/10 Ted Fry, Seattle Times: VERY GOOD (cg) "The relentless pace, hair-raising stunts and air of affected gravitas also goes a long way in boosting 'Salt' a rung above much of this summer's other multiplex fare as a top-notch action thriller." (Read the full review...) 428 words, 07/23/10 Shawn Levy, Portland Oregonian: GOOD (cg) "It's ludicrous... But it's also fun, with its heinie-kicking heroine, its paranoid nesting-egg plot, its sleek pace and fuzzy contours and sheer, unapologetic urge to thrill." (Read the full review...) 617 words, 07/23/10 Joe Williams, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...reassuringly familiar... goes down easy, but it's lacking both nourishment and flavor." (Read the full review...) 314 words, 07/23/10 Steve Persall, St. Petersburg Times: MODERATE (cg) "...a spy thriller in theaters only because Angelina Jolie does the run-and-shoot thing a little better than a straight-to-video star like Casper Van Diem." (Read the full review...) 473 words, 07/22/10 Tom Long, Detroit News: EXCELLENT (cg) "Conflicted spy with identity issues? Check. Government mind control? Check. Smash-bash car chases, sudden revelations, bureaucratic corruption, high-rise hijinks? It's all here." (Read the full review...) 473 words, 07/23/10 Connie Ogle, Miami Herald: VERY GOOD (cg) "...anybody who prefers to watch movies without resorting to extensive cerebral gymnastics should enjoy the familiar ride, which comes with a swift pace and a solid cast." (Read the full review...) 448 words, 07/23/10
Karina Longworth, Village Voice/LA Weekly: GOOD "...closer to product than art. Highly satisfying, often exhilarating, refreshingly unpretentious product." (Read the full review...) 781 words, 07/21/10 Gary Susman, Boston Phoenix: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "If there's not much suspense in the plotting, at least there's plenty in wondering how Lara Croft -- oops, Evelyn Salt -- will get out of one impossibly tight scrape after another." (Read the full review...) 609 words, 07/22/10 Keith Phipps, AV Club: VERY GOOD (cg) "...essentially one endless chase scene, one that doesn't let up and that refreshingly relies far more heavily on real-world stunt work than obvious CGI assistance." (Read the full review...) 339 words, 07/22/10 Eric D. Snider, Cinematical: MODERATE "...has most of the ingredients for a tasty, 'Bourne'-style espionage casserole.... What it lacks is motivation. Maybe that doesn't seem very important, but you sure notice when it's missing." (Read the full review...) 561 words, 07/23/10 Ed Gonzalez, Slant: WEAK (cg) "...banal, humorless... The plot is hokum... it would have felt antiquated even if it had been actually set during the Cold War... dully choreographed, nothing but a vision of an actress dancing by herself." (Read the full review...) 430 words, 07/20/10 Susan G. Cole, Toronto Now: WEAK (cg) "The movie has zero texture. It unfolds in a monotonous series of explosions and car chases..." (Read the full review...) 293 words, 07/22/10 Edward Adams, Atlanta Creative Loafing: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...chock full of bold action and often predictable twists that envelope the cast of characters in this exciting chess game between superpowers." (Read the full review...) 721 words, 07/28/10 MaryAnn Johanson, Flick Filosopher: EXCELLENT (cg) " 'Salt' works. As in breathless-nonstop-action-intensity works. Oh, sure, it's nutty-as-a-fruitcake insane at the same time, but being this hugely entertaining goes a long way..." (Read the full review...) 684 words, 07/21/10
John Anderson, Wall Street Journal: GOOD "Fun, if not quite a meal. Jolie shows more muscle tone than heart.... a neo-Cold War thriller out of the classic good-guy-as-fugitive mold..." (Read the full review...) 684 words, 07/23/10 A.O. Scott, New York Times: GOOD "Mr. Wimmer has constructed a puzzle just complicated enough to keep you alert while Mr. Noyce, a protean Australian craftsman throws the pieces in the air and watches them collide, explode and crash to the ground." (Read the full review...) 921 words, 07/23/10 David Denby, New Yorker: MODERATE "...most of it is conventional, though well-directed, pop mayhem.... as impersonal an action thriller as we've seen in years." (Read the full review...) 744 words, 07/26/10 Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: GOOD "...who goes to summer action movies for cast-iron logic anyway? Or for plausible characters, for that matter?" (Read the full review...) 848 words, 07/23/10 Dana Stevens, Slate: VERY GOOD "Angelina Jolie rules.... with this woman, all the invincible-spy clichés feel fresh and fun again." (Read the full review...) 590 words, 07/23/10 Andrew O'Hehir, Salon: VERY GOOD "...a well-greased, smoothly functioning machine that drives forward with tremendous momentum, elevating your pulse rate and relieving you of the need to think for more than a second or two at a stretch." (Read the full review...) 1,360 words, 07/22/10
Justin Chang, Daily Variety: MODERATE "...brisk, professionally assembled but finally shrug-inducing... a predictable slice of warmed-over 'Cold War' paranoia..." (Read the full review...) 1,088 words, 07/16/10 Kirk Honeycutt, Hollywood Reporter: GOOD "...a better Bond movie than most recent Bond movies... moves ever forward -- pushing, pushing, pushing its heroine to greater feats every minute." (Read the full review...) 929 words, 07/16/10 Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: GOOD "...who goes to summer action movies for cast-iron logic anyway? Or for plausible characters, for that matter?" (Read the full review...) 848 words, 07/23/10 Emanuel Levy, Cinema 24/7: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "What elevates the picture above the routine is the charisma of Jolie and the sharp imagery by director of cinematography Robert Elswitt." (Read the full review...) 704 words, 07/18/10 A.O. Scott, New York Times: GOOD "Mr. Wimmer has constructed a puzzle just complicated enough to keep you alert while Mr. Noyce, a protean Australian craftsman throws the pieces in the air and watches them collide, explode and crash to the ground." (Read the full review...) 921 words, 07/23/10 John Anderson, Wall Street Journal: GOOD "Fun, if not quite a meal. Jolie shows more muscle tone than heart.... a neo-Cold War thriller out of the classic good-guy-as-fugitive mold..." (Read the full review...) 684 words, 07/23/10
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