Salt gets a trailer.

Phillip Noyce certainly has a terrific track record with action films (Clear and Present Danger is one of the best thrillers of the 1990s) and Jolie is at her most bankable when she's an action heroine. Still, this feels like a cross between The Bourne Identity and Minority Report (which is likely why Tom Cruise dropped out). I'm hoping that the film will go the more daring route of having Jolie actually be a treacherous Russian spy. But I'm guessing that the film plays out generically, with only Chiwetel Eijofor kinda-sorta believing her until the second-act climax, where he discovers that Liv Schreiber is the baddie. Schreiber revealing himself by murdering Eijofor in a 'shocking twist' is optional. Nothing specifically against this film, but I'd love to see one of these 'I'm not really the secret bad guy' movies have the framed party say "I'm innocent, and I'm going to prove it by sitting at my desk until the alleged foul deed is supposed to go down". Having said all of that, the film looks like old-school fun and I'd see Eijofor and Schreiber in almost anything.

Scott Mendelson