Salt
Salt stars Angelina Jolie as CIA operative Evelyn Salt who is accused by a Russian defector of being a mole for the former Soviet Union. She takes off using all of her spy chops to elude former colleagues, not the least of which is Ted Winter (Liev Schreiber) the one person who speaks out on her behalf. While she’s not only on the lam but also trying to rescue her kidnapped husband we learn that there are cells of Russians embedded in America since their indoctrinated youth and ready to spring into subterfuge on a future unnamed date with the aim of causing chaos and instability in the west. In a post cold war world this scenario might seem too far fetched except for the fortuitously coincidental news in the real world lately of Russian spies expelled for long term espionage on American soil. The action is relentless but it would be a more plausible experience if Salt relied way more on her wiles as opposed to reducing this character to the common cliché that it’s possible for a willowy woman to physically overpower groups of men twice her size. Still this Salt has a fair amount of pepper.