The secret ambition of 'Salt' (and Angelina Jolie)

I went into Salt expecting a big, loud, incoherent, derivative action film without a single smart bone in its plasticized body. A film with no personality, no taste, no sense of style. And yet another film that makes you wonder whatever happened to Angelina Jolie, whose acclaimed early work in Girl, Interrupted, the HBO biopic Gia, the TNT miniseries “George Wallace,” marked her as a potentially great screen star, a ferociously charismatic actress in a pinup girl’s body. More

By Matt Zoller Seitz

July 23, 2010 4:35 pm